Clockwork Mask

This is why I've only been online for about a total of 20 minutes in the past three days. Been slaving away from morning until night since Sunday on this thing.

We were in Ouray on Saturday and there's this awesome art shop I'm addicted to. So I'm in there thinking of ways to make a clockwork mask and BANG I see this plaster tape. The same stuff they use to put a cast on a broken bone, where it's hard and dry until you get it wet and mold it and then it dries. So I bought a roll of it, came back to town and promptly started this baby.

I used my sister's V mask as a base, covered in foil to keep from ruining it, and molded the plaster over that. Then when it dried I filled in any anomalies with wood putty, and after that dried I sanded it smooth. And since I ran out of plaster tape before I could do the edges (I didn't have the parts ), I used paper mache to finish the rest. Then I spent two of the three days painting until I'm blue in the face.

The crackle medium for the paint didn't work worth a damn. It crackled alright but totally the wrong kind of crackles. Like paint on an old wooden barn door rather than fine porcelain cracking. So I did the crackles by hand with a detail brush. *dies*

So yeah, I'm gonna be having back pain for a week after hunching over in a chair all that time. And it's far from perfect. But I love it. Can't help but be a tiny bit proud of this. I'm getting a wig too and that will be the best Halloween costume next year.
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Materials:
-plaster tape
-wood putty
-paper mache
-acrylic paint
-decoupage finisher

Time:
3 days

Art (c) ~deathtoll1912
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