My Colour Scheme of the Mask...

Okay, here are the rough colour schemes of the mask...

This is the Side View;
This is the Front View;

Animal Optical Illusions...

To have something else other than reflections for a chage, I have added some animal optical illusions so the reader doesn't get too bored with my blog...

Anyone interested in zebras and.., lions???

I like.., all these animals in the picture!!! How many can you find?

Can you see the illusion of the tree branches? I think it's pretty cool!

That's funny.. It's sort of freaky though...

The HeartPuppy! It's not really an illusion but I added it anyway. =]

These animal optical illusions can be found at the link below:

http://visualfunhouse.com/category/animal-optical-illusions

What We Have Been Doing in the Past Few Lessons...

For the past few lessons, we have started to create our masks. I never knew it had so many different steps and stages to go through!
First, each person had to stuff a plastic bag full of newspaper. This was going to be the basic shape of the head of the mask. Okay, since my head just wouldn't fit in to the plastic bag after I had stuffed in one whole booklet of newspaper, I had to use a lot more. I felt sort of sad... My head felt really big!!!
Then we stuck masking shapes around the plastic bag to make the shape of the head; mine had to be a penguin's head so it had to be round, but it turned out looking like a pumpkin. When we were done, it looked like a garbage dump full of newspaper. Secondly, we started to have the basic shape of the mask. As the lessons progressed, these basic shapes made of newspaper, a lot of masking tape and plastic bag, as well as cardboard, took more shapes and became detailed. I realised though, that my talent was not in making shapes out of newspaper. I was extra slow; I took two lessons doing ears and the fin of a dolphin and one lesson doing the beak. I still have to do the tail and the face!
I did my ears as cardboard, and I am planning to make the tail out of cardboard as well, except it would be stuffed with newspaper inside.
The next step, the third step, which I haven't gone into yet, was the start of paper- macheing. This was done with liquid glue (very gooey!) and strips of newspaper; the mask had to be covered with pieces of newspaper and really start to take shapes.
I can't wait till I start painting the mask though; I think I will be much better at that then making pumpkin- heads and stick- like beaks out of newspaper! =-)

Plan of My Mask...

WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT LAUGH OR BE TOO CRITICAL EVEN IF YOU THINK IT IS THE WORST DRAWING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. IT'S NOT FUNNY TO LEAVE MEAN COMMENTS EITHER. I DID TRY YOU KNOW, AND EVERYONE KNOWS I AM NOT GOOD IN DRAWING!!! SO PLEASE BE KIND...

This is my plan of the mask I am going to make this term. The parts of the mask are all drawn from the animal pictures I researched in Term 1. This is sort of like the rough plan; just to see what the mask would look like. The actual design of the mask will be posted later on. Each box is a part of the mask, but I didn't do the shape of the head. (In case you wondered, it's the rounded head of a penguin. =])

Here it is! (READ THE WARNING AT THE TOP.)