Masks and Mishaps

Over the past few days I made some clay masks for a customer. They were drying ever so peacefully on the back deck yesterday afternoon that I decided to leave them out there this morning and thus keep them from stinking up the apartment. Then I left to run errands...and on the way home it started pouring.

Lesson of the day:

clay masks + pouring rain = sad pandas

The masks are clay and most of them are flat and simply decorative, so you can put them up on your wall or somesuch. Managed to rescue them as well as I could, so here they are:

Mask 1 - Day of the Dead half-mask

Mask 2 - Ashanti Ghost, based on this one.
due to its size I had to put it on cardboard backing...which didn't like the rain either
Mask 3 - Day of the Dead - full face. Resting on a full face mask mold to help keep the shape.
Mask 4 - inspired by this.
Mask 5 - first to be made.

However - marvels of nature include the sky, light, and everything turning very saturated shades of green during a thunderstorm. I still find that incredibly cool (there was the one time everything turned sepia...but that was mostly due to smog, which made it inherently less cool).

CaribFest calendar artwork I

First set of photos of artwork going into the CaribFest Kingston 2009 Special Edition program. Each is an image for the calendar inside.

So far all are water-soluble oils on canvas board

October - Silhouette
September - Green Dress
July - Limbo Dancers

Still finishing up/taking pictures of the rest of the months.