Thursday, September 2, 2010

!!!New Hobby Alert!!!

Most all of my friends and family know I collect masks.
Most all of my friends and family have seen my masks.
A friend of my husband's, who has been to our house and has seen my mask collection,
dropped off a couple of ceramic masks for me to add to my collection.
How thoughtful right?

Not exactly my kinda mask.
In fact, I am not a fan of the Harlequin clown at all.

So, I thanked my husband's friend, and mentally added them to the yard sale box in the garage.

Then, I got an idea.
What if I cover the masks with polymer clay and re-make them into something that I consider to be cool?
Worth a shot. What did I have to lose?
About 50 cents from the yard sale.

  
This is my witch mask.
She's not even close to being finished yet, but I just had to share.
I still have to paint her and add some hair, and then mount her on a plaque for hanging.
I'm really pretty stoked that she came out so good considering I have never sculpted something like this before.
I can see where I need to make improvements on the next mask, but overall, I am very pleased with how it turned out so far.

This is my zombie.
LOVE him!
I managed to make him pretty gross with rotten teeth and an exposed brain and rotted nose cartilage. He may end up as a mummy instead, but I'm going to try and make him a zombie first.  
I am anxious (and nervous) to get some paint on this guy.

Will post them again once they are complete.  

9 comments:

  1. OMG these are brilliant I cannot wait to see them painted if this is how good they look white!!! What type of clay did you use? xx

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  2. Looking good so far hun - I am impressed!! Wonder what you would get for the finished items?
    Hugs,
    Teri x

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  3. This is awesome. Can't wait to see how these progress. Well done on coming up with such a brill idea for altering them.
    H x

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  4. Now this is too freakin' cool! I love it!

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  5. OMG!!! I need you to paint these so I can see the final product! I just started playing with polymer clay and this would be a PERFECT project. I cannot wait to see the finished product!!

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  6. As I was going down the post I thought "wow..a zombie mask would be cool" and look! There it was! Neat!! Can't wait to see the finished project.

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  7. You are so talented! These are so cool and creepy! :-)Traci

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  8. OMG that is so freakn awesome you would never know that you havent done that before.
    ~Patricia

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  9. OMG!!! This is what I was talking about....I WANT ONE!!!! lol....you're too fabulous girlie...I want to come over to your house and play....

    Hugs

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