Friday, February 3, 2017

Sixth graders finishing their masks

These past few weeks of 2017 have been the last formal classes regarding the Costa Rican mascarada tradition.  Most students are almost finished with their masks so they will receive some more studio time in order to finish painting and adorning their masks with hair, jewels, and other accessories... The rest of the class time will be used to begin our new project.  


Using masking tape to do dry work before papier machéing over it.


Different styles and mediums can be used...



When using acrylic paint, mistakes can be erased by washing paint off...


Some very interesting surfaces have surfaced...


And some masks say a lot about their makers.