In the beginning before I started to brainstorm ideas and find out how I can make a mask, I thought wow it must take really a miracle to come up with an idea. Every time I work on these projects I expand my limitations more and more, above what I think. I started off with the theme of Halloween and I'm pretty sure people started exactly the same place as me. When I thought of Halloween it automatically reminded me of the Day of the Dead. It is very popular and people should've heard of it. It the day when you celebrate the deceased. It is a really cool part of the Latin culture.
I started to google some pictures of the day of the dead, and automatically a mask pops up and I realized this was my project. I started to look at youtube videos and more images to start constructing my mask. I came up with these images from google which I downloaded. There are lots of pictures with flowers and flower petals with crosses. All the masks seemed pretty friendly to me and very comical. It wasn't too scary. I had to begin with the outline of a skull and that's where I started to work up the foundation.
I implied elements of texture and color and the principle of balance. It is nicely symmetrically designed. I used acrylic paint, leftover from previous projects. I tried to imply almost a similar theme with flowers and crosses with a skull. It then end it came out great! I had a really good experience with this mask, but I wish I worked on it earlier so I could've taken it around during Halloween.
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