Finished Colouring

Now I have finished colouring my mask purple. I managed to spill some white paint on the side, so when I tried to remove it, it wouldn't work and the paint was blurred out. This is something I will have to fix for next time. I also had a new idea of gluing red-painted small matchsticks on the mask's edge. I managed to paint the matchsticks so I have to glue them after the vacation

Finished with cutting!

The previous lesson I finished cutting the mask from the papier maché into the shape that I had designed. The pictures you can see on this website is not actually the real ones, because I didn't take pictures when I was finished with everything. Now I can start painting next week, and probably find something that would look good as 3D.

Started Creating!

Now I have started creating my mask. I first took some chicken wire, and place it on my face to form the shape of the mask appropriately. Then I used the rest of the double lesson to put several layers of papier maché (newspapers) on top of the mask with glue. I was able to finish it, so next week I am ready to start cutting and painting it to start to create the actual mask!

Research - Purpose

After the Catholic Church banned wearing the venetian masks masks, especially on holy days, it was reintroduced and eventually became a week-long celebration called ‘Carnevale’. Carnevale today is full of celebrations and is fun for everyone, tourists as well. The last time a Carnival happened in Venice, was from February 11 – February 21 2012. It is usually around this time each year.   Not only is the Carnival in Venice a fancy dress purpose for wearing these Venetian masks, it is also worn in high school prom or other, and for secret social rituals. It is used to cover up and hide the user’s identity and to charm and intrigue viewers. It is used for cheerful purposes.  

 Source: http://www.visitvenice.co.uk/venice-carnival/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_were_venetian_masks_used
http://www.ehow.com/info_8245168_venetian-masks-used.html

http://www.ehow.com/about_5167261_information-venetian-masks.html

Designing!

Today I started on my design. What we had to do was to create designs, then eventually make them, that had some aspects of venetian masks' culture, and some aspects of our own personality or somethign that we would want to say. I had a number of different designs which I made in my sketchbook, but only some of them had features of something I would want to say to the world, or my own personality into it. We had to create something unique!
These are the designs which I first started with. As you may see, I had difficulties with imagining a unique style, so therefore chose to do similar features as in other traditinal Venetian masks, or the Columbina masks as they call it.

This is my final design which I would like to create. It shows off my personality, that I can be bothv crazy and elegant-looking, which is what I am trying to aim for, or to say to other people. By doing to different shapes on the same mask, would hide my face and let me be whoever I would like to be - giving options. The colours I have used show my favourite colour - purple - and the colour which is mostly used in Venetian Masks - gold. Black is also one colour which I will use on the edge of the mask. I am really looking forward to creating this, even though I am a little worried on how I can create the shape of the eyebrow on the elegant-looking side because I am not confident in using papier mache. On the opposite side I am not too worried about the shape because it is supposed to be all crazy.