
Crumple up paper and place it underneath the mask to help it hold its shape.Remove the mask being careful not to bend the plaster. Once the entire face is covered let the plaster dry for at least 20 minutes or until it falls off the face.The facemask should be tight, but comfortable. Each child will want at least three layers of plaster on the mask so it will hold cloth and the bottom up to the middle of the cloth Place rubber bands or hair ties over the cloth about six inches apart Fold sides to the middle and tuck them in Place rubber bands (or hair ties) over ears, making sure that the mask covers both the nose and mouth.They will continue to apply strips until a layer of plaster is on their partners face, then they will repeat.Then the artists will smooth out the plaster. Making sure not to cover the mouth or nostrils. Child two (the artist) will then take a strip of plaster wrap, put it in the water, wring out excess water and apply the damp plaster strip to their partners face.Ask the first child (the mask model) rub Vaseline all over their face paying close attention to eyebrows and the hair line This write up/tutorial details how I create my resin masks, beginning with a.Have them both put on smocks, do not skip this step, this project can get very messy. stiffening agent of plaster or animal glue (Wiles, Mask 15). Put a bowl of water around the table, one per workstation works well. This study seeks to reimagine and reinvigorate modern theatres relationship with mask work. Have one bowl of plaster strips per two children.
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Put the strips in bowls around the work space. This video shows you step by step how to use a plastic mask mold and plaster wrap to create a mask form, that can then be painted and embellished.Find me on. You can get plaster wrap at any craft store but I found it cheaper on Amazon. So here I am wearing a bear mask over a human mask, because there's always a part of me that I keep private.Cover work area with newspaper or a tablecloth. I thought about creating a totem pole on my mask of all of the totem animals of my children, husband, and I, but as I designed it, I didn't really like how it was going. to make the extensions).Īhhh.the possibilities! I started to think about what I would be known for at the end of my life and I thought, "Well, people would say I was a mom." Of course, this is among other things, but I take my mom job very seriously :-) We were challenged to create a mask that represents us in some way and it needed to have some sort of extension of some kind (we could use Cellu-clay, plaster gauze, cardboard, etc. I had done this about a million years ago when I was in high school, so I was excited to think about possibilities for my grown-up mask. The last project we did was create a mask using plaster gauze. But, I've been enjoying making art for this class.

The class I'm taking this semester is Art Methods and Materials For Elementary Education and it is SO FUN! We get to make art! Oh yeah, and write lesson plans and research papers.BUT, MAKE ART!Īs a mom of four and doing all sorts of other things over the years, I don't make time for my own art-I'm not sure what my own art even is after all this time. This is meant to have the face be vertical,īut my background wasn't big enough! Sorry! I'm having a great time and learning so much! I'm going to Grad School at Plymouth State University in NH to become certified to teach art.
