Mixed Media Winter Mask

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Project by Kristen Winter from St. Louis, Mo.

When Kristen Winter checked out her first books from the public library as a child, she had every crafting "how to" book she could carry. Over the years, she learned how to make everything from paper dolls to polymer clay creations. Now there’s no medium she hasn’t tried and when she’s not busy molding her own mixed media masks, she’s showcasing many of her skills in the latest crafting craze of Artist Trading Cards.

Materials:

plastic full-face mask form
Rigid Wrap© plaster cloth (gauze)
newspaper
gesso
white paint
Liquitex Glossy Gel Medium
metallic teal tissue paper: aqua, baby blue, silver
handmade papers: various aqua, silver, white and blue
Art Institute Ultrafine Glitter: Neptune hologram glitter
Crystal Glitter in medium and multi (Mark Enterprises)
white lace paper doilies
clear iridescent rhinestones in square and round shapes
ribbon
foam brushes
Diamond Glaze adhesive
scissors
sandpaper
container of water
glue gun and hot glue
petroleum jelly
snowflake confetti - optional
silver flower sequins - optional
white snowflake sequins - optional
Perfect FX Star Dust Medium - optional
Perfect FX Crystal Shimmer - optional
Polyflake fairy dust - optional

Figure A

Steps:

1) Cover the surface of the white plastic mask form (figure A) with petroleum jelly so that the dried mache form will not stick.

2) Cut plaster bandages (Rigid Wrap) into small pieces of triangles and long and short rectangles. The first layer applied to the mask is triangle strips, the second layer applied will be long and short rectangles.

Figure B

Figure C

3) Dip a triangle strip into water and smooth the plaster piece with fingers (figure B). Apply strips to the mask lining up one edge on the mask. Apply triangle strips all the way around the outside edge of mask and around the edge of the eyeholes then fill in the rest of the space with triangle shapes. Always overlap the edges of the strips.

4) Repeat step 3 with long and short rectangle pieces. Place longer strips around the perimeter of the mask and the shorter pieces around the eyeholes and over the nose and lips. Fill in the surface area of the mask with more strips (figure C). Let dry.

5) Peel the plaster mask off of the mold.

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