{"id":207,"date":"2018-01-22T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrimmdesign.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2023-05-25T01:09:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T01:09:56","slug":"ooak-masquerade-season-themed-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/ooak-masquerade-season-themed-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"OoaK Masquerade Season Themed Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Midsummer
I called it Midsummer Nights Dream based off of shakespearean play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year I was contacted by a client that wanted me to make a unique mask for an art campaign that she is doing focused on empowering women. While I wait for the collaboration to bare fruit, I decided to completed the test mask that I had created to get the basic shape down for her mask. \u00a0I was extremely happy with what came out of it. \u00a0I called it ‘ Midsummer Nights Dream’ based of the Shakespeare’s Play of the same name.<\/p>\n

The leather was dyed a dark mahogany, while jewelry chains hung from the twisted leather prongs that protruded from the top of it. \u00a0I had also fixed small charms, bells and glass beads to bring the delicate details into play. \u00a0A flower crown of sakura blossoms, ivy, ferns, berries and leaves adorned the top giving it an organic feel. \u00a0I really enjoyed making this mask and I know that the client that purchased it from my Etsy Shop left me 5 star review and wore it to her fall masquerade ball.<\/p>\n

But it left me wanting to make more. \u00a0When I finally got a chance, I created a few more bases to work from. \u00a0One was a faun mask, complete with ears and spiraling horns. \u00a0I knew I wanted to do something with winter, since it was December and moving into January, but I wasn’t quite sure what. \u00a0I started by dying it a navy blue and began to doodle on it with gold and silver metallic paint pens. \u00a0I shined up the horns with gold rub-n-buff and started finding the icy flora to fix atop it. \u00a0I worked through the night, I just couldn’t stop. \u00a0It’s addicting just letting these things come to life. \u00a0And when I finally finished I was quite happy with it. \u00a0You can see it below in the gallery. \u00a0It’s currently on it’s way to a client in Utah.<\/p>\n

So I started another one, almost immediately after the other one shipped out. \u00a0This time I wanted to try a fall theme. \u00a0I fashioned the mask after a maple leaf, blending yellow and red stain, and then using a gold paint pen to highlight the beautiful veins of the leaf. \u00a0Again I hung chains from the twisted leather prongs at the top and adorned the crown with colors of the chaining season, along with fall ferns and autumn leaves. \u00a0At this same time I made a Forest Spirit Wolf Mask in the theme of summer. \u00a0I stained the wolf mask a java brown and used the gold paint pen to mimic the look of woodgrain. \u00a0I attached the summer ferns to the crown along with twigs and nuts. \u00a0Both of these are currently in my Etsy Shop.<\/a><\/p>\n

I can’t wait to create more of these unique one of a kind masquerade leather masks. \u00a0I also have simpler masks at the shop, as well as plain raw masks for you to create your own work of art. \u00a0You can find all my leather mask listings here.<\/a><\/p>\n