I now have several masks located at Rave's Oh My Goth up in Denver for sale! I'm really excited to have my masks in such a busy, busy location and of all things, right in front of the corsets! Since the corsets are one of the main reasons people go to Rave's, I'm thrilled that they'll see my masks as soon while they are shopping for corsets!The masks in the store are as follows:
So, I finally completed the steam punk mask. I've been putting it off mostly to work on my novel. In fact, I've been holed away in my house for weeks, coming out only to go to work. The novel has been sucking my social life away, but I'm almost at 300 pages!ANYway, without further ado, it's time to put this beautiful sculpture on my site. I just love this piece; it's been fun researching steampunk and the history of it. The liquid copper is definately going to be used on more masks in the future, especially if they're more sci-fi like this. The only thing I don't like about this piece is that the clay is pretty well shot. I tried to use more of it the other day and it broke apart in my hands. But, I picked up some craft porcelin, some of which I used on this mask, and it's smooth as butter. I love that stuff and I'm looking forward to making a mask with it!This mask has peahen feathers (hard to find), looooong turkey feathers (one just over 3 FEET) and all kinds of fun copper wire and miscellaneous steam punk decorations. My favs are the two gold butterflies on one side of the face with curled copper wire coming out of them. I actually sewed them into the mask while the clay was still moist and finished it once it was all painted. If you're looking to do gold, silver or copper rubbing onto sculptures, I definately recommend the liquid stuff. It stinks, but it's really cool to work with. Just make sure you have a decent respirator while working with it. :)
Today, I added many new pieces that I have working on, as well as a picture of a mask I sold that never made it to the site before it was sold. The mask is called "The Barber of Seville" and I was inspired to make it after the Johnny Depp movie Sweeny Todd came out. It was rather difficult to make the piece, but I decided to make a second one, "Art Thou Sorrowful?" to go with, based on the song of the same name. With a little decoupage glue and a book of sheet music, I'll have endless loads of fun! :)I'm working on my next piece, this time in clay. While I can't give details yet, it's going to be based on an upcoming fetish ball in Colorado Springs. Most of it is complete, but I won't post pictures probably until February. I may, however, post teasers later. Please be sure to look over the site with my new masks. If you are a FreeWebs website designer, join my friends list and post comments so others may see your art!
