Art 7

The source of inspiration of my mask is my friends cow “Lezlie.” I like helping my friend wash Lezlie and when my friend shows Lezlie I like to help get her ready. To make the mask first I picked out a mold for my mask, I picked a McDonald's salad bowl and I also had to find a snout and ears, the snout and ears were from a horse mold. Then I got the plaster wet and put then over the molds. When the molds dried I attached the snout and ears to the McDonald’s bowl. After the mask was finished I painted the whole mask white and when that dried I painted it black and left a white spot on the forehead, I painted the snout pink. Last I added eyes that were buttons and then I added rafia so it looked like the cow was eating hay. When I needed eyes I was thinking of using googly eyes but we only had really small ones so I had to make eyes that were big enough to fit my mask. So I looked in the buttons bin and found 2 black buttons and then I got foam and glued the buttons onto the foam and it was a perfect size and it looked good. I didn’t know where to have white spots so I just thought of what my friends cows look like and my favorite one of her cows has a white spot on her forehead. My favorite part about the mask is the snout and the rafia that looks like hay. I like it because it is something cows eat so it looks cool and it is not plain and boring. If I started over and change something I would smooth the plaster down more so that it’s more smooth and so that there isn’t holes. 

My inspiration is that I like warm places, like Florida. I also like sunsets and sunrises and I think they are really pretty. To make my project I had to look at pictures of sunsets and palm trees so I new what I was going to do then I lightly drew it with pencil. After I drew it I went over it with hot glue. Once the hot glue dried I colored the spaces with oil pastels and blended colors. When I was done coloring I made cracks in the paper and then colored over it with black watercolor paint and washed it of. After I painted watercolor paint and washed it off twice I let it dry and framed it. I challenge I faced was when I was coloring the trunk to the palm tree I could not fit the oil pastel in the space because it was so small. To fix it I just filled it in a much as I could and then when I was painting the watercolor paint over I colored those places and it filled the white spot and I also used my fingers the smudge it into the white areas. A risk I took was the colors because I didn’t know what colors to use for my sunset so I used many colors like the rainbow and pink. Then I just blended them all and together and mixed them.My favorite thing in my project is the colors I picked for the sunset. I like them because they all go good together and it actually looks like a sunset. I would change that I didn’t do the ocean on the other side of the palm tree island so it looks like the ocean ends there and I wish I would have put the ocean there so that it looks better.