This year, for Halloween, awesome paper-craftster Jacob (and my hubby) and I decided to go for a Greek mythology monsters theme. However, we were a bit underwhelmed by the usual plain toga idea so we thought of mixing other cultural elements to the costumes.
I picked a Kabuki-inspired Medusa and he went with a Venitian carnival Minotaur.
Here's the Minotaur in all its glory and we're pretty psyched about it! :D
Step-by-step:
First, Jacob made a rough structure for the bull head. I'm always impressed at how he can capture the basic essence of a shape with very little effort. Here' the bovine shape made out of a cereal box:
The horns were molded out of good old papier mâché and some fine wire for support:
Next, Jacob used plaster of Paris to solidify the shape and add more details. Since this is a functional mask and bovine eyes are too far apart to serve as seeing holes for a human, he added a few seeing holes on the front:
The finer details, like eyes and nostrils were made out of a baked clay-like putty (which was lighter than the plaster, as the mask was getting quite heavy), then glued to the plaster head with contact cement:
The final, fully plastered mask model:
It was my turn to paint the bull mask, Venitian style. I began by painting the whole mask with black acrylic paint to create a uniform base:
Then I used a sponge to dab some gold paint mixed with black for a bronze-like effect that would show through the other colours:
Using a warm, antique-white, I outlined the mask's patterns:
It was then only a matter of adding some finer details in gold, black and red paint:
And here's the final Venetian Minotaur mask!
My Medusa costume is coming along well; kimono, snake-wig and all... Pics coming soon!
Wow, gorgeous! I might have to try something like this with my butterfly head idea. Great work!
ReplyDeleteSeriously good!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteThat is fantastically beautiful! A job well done and thank you for the how-to! :)
ReplyDeletequite impressive. you're a genius .. the bull mask looked solid and made of wood ..
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!!!
ReplyDeletehow much for one?
ReplyDeletecan you see?
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