5th January
In today's lesson I continued with my mask. I began painting my mask. I researched different 'Il Capitano' masks for colour ideas. I finally found a picture I wanted to base my mask off. This mask has symmetrical (black and red) diamond shaped eyes with a gold nose and forehead. After analysing the picture I began drawing out on my mask where I wanted each colour of paint to go. I considered different shapes and decided I wanted to create half a diamond shape past the eyes and the nose joining the corner of the eyebrows to make it look symmetrical and have the entire cheek in the designated colour (red and black) to make it stand out more. I also decided I wanted to paint the eyebrows the opposite colour (E.G- black cheek with a red eyebrow and a Red cheek with a black eyebrow) to make them stand out more.
I began by putting masking tape over the lines I drew to make sure it is flush and in a straight line. I covered the eyebrows with masking tape to ensure they don't get paint on them.
For the remainder of the lesson I decided to begin painting the sides of the masks with the red and black paint I had previously decided to use. (The picture shows the progress I had made by the end of the lesson).
8th January
In today's lesson I finished off painting my mask, I began with the eyebrows. I added more masking tape in an attempt to keep the two colours separate to give it the most affect. I tried to blend the fore head in with the eyebrows a bit to add a bit of contrast to my mask, however the black paint overpowered the gold colour of the eyebrows making it look untidy.
I was able to wipe the majority of the black off and re-colour however there was still an overpowering feel of black in the left side of the forehead.
Apart from that I was very happy with the way my mask came out and next lesson I will finish off with detail using pens to show a clearer separation between the two colours.
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