Dia De Los Muertos Masks Photo Shoot

After months of mask making, I had the opportunity to have some great pictures taken of them. I would like to thank Meghan Hoban for taking the pictures and Nicole Martinez, Tristan Scheving, and Cody Harrah for modeling and helping me out with the photo shoot.

The larger white masks were made using a skull bank (see earlier post below) while the smaller ones are skull mask blanks purchased from Michaels.

My favorite picture of them all.

Again, thank you to my friends for their hard work.

Plaster Cloth Masks

I have been looking for some good blank Skull masks without any luck these past few weeks. The only ones I found are sold during Halloween at Michaels. Rather than wait until October, I took it upon myself to make my own blanks. Using Rigid-Wrap Plaster Cloth (purchased at a Blick Art Supply Store) and a skull bank I had, I made a simple skull mask. I used masking tape to clean up the edges of the mask and the edges of the eye holes (which were cut out using a box cutter). This is how the first blank mask looked:

I drew this picture while I was working on the mask. I knew I had to bring this picture to life. 

After a quick trip to buy fake flowers, veil fabric, and a late night of painting and gluing, the mask was done.

The veil is 2 layers; the top is black and the bottom is red.

The next day I repeated the entire process and made another mask. The mustache was made of a paper towel wrapped in foil, which was wrapped again in the rigid-wrap.