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So hopefully the link uploads correctly (I lit a candle and shook a chicken foot when I signed on to photobucket, so it SHOULD work), and you get to see my blue/green Medusa.
If you scroll down in my LJ and look at the gold/copper Medusa, you'll see the variations that occur with hand-shaped masks. Manufacturers hate that kind of uncertainty. Me, I like it. I think it adds originality. Plus, I can experiment. Gold/Copper Medusa has snakes that curl more closely around the face and droop over the eyes like unruly anime bangs. This one has snakes that I coiled less and arched away from the face. It has a more open, "sunburst-like" design. I arced the fourth and eighth snakes higher and further back, so they'd look almost like horns. Also, I always draw the central snake on the mask freehand, (that's the only one which shows a complete snake, tail and all, the rest fade into the face) so it comes out different each time. I think I like the central snake on the copper Medusa better, but that's just me.
The eyes in this one are hematite. Twenty-two little teeny 3mm hematite beads...my poor bleeding fingers! I really wanted to use amber beads (I like gold with blue and green better than silver, in general) but unfortunately I didn't have enough. Poop.
Anyway, these girls are going to look simply awesome up on my screen together at my next show. I wanted to make two distinctly different versions of the same mask, and I think I succeeded.
Tuesday is going to be a "character building" day for me (my euphemism for "that which doesn't kill me makes me stronger"). For those of you privy to my f-locked stuff...wish me luck. I'll update when I can, once life stops being so damn...interesting. In the meantime I'm tapdancing as fast as I can. Being productive = being distracted. Sometimes that's a very good thing.
If you scroll down in my LJ and look at the gold/copper Medusa, you'll see the variations that occur with hand-shaped masks. Manufacturers hate that kind of uncertainty. Me, I like it. I think it adds originality. Plus, I can experiment. Gold/Copper Medusa has snakes that curl more closely around the face and droop over the eyes like unruly anime bangs. This one has snakes that I coiled less and arched away from the face. It has a more open, "sunburst-like" design. I arced the fourth and eighth snakes higher and further back, so they'd look almost like horns. Also, I always draw the central snake on the mask freehand, (that's the only one which shows a complete snake, tail and all, the rest fade into the face) so it comes out different each time. I think I like the central snake on the copper Medusa better, but that's just me.
The eyes in this one are hematite. Twenty-two little teeny 3mm hematite beads...my poor bleeding fingers! I really wanted to use amber beads (I like gold with blue and green better than silver, in general) but unfortunately I didn't have enough. Poop.
Anyway, these girls are going to look simply awesome up on my screen together at my next show. I wanted to make two distinctly different versions of the same mask, and I think I succeeded.
Tuesday is going to be a "character building" day for me (my euphemism for "that which doesn't kill me makes me stronger"). For those of you privy to my f-locked stuff...wish me luck. I'll update when I can, once life stops being so damn...interesting. In the meantime I'm tapdancing as fast as I can. Being productive = being distracted. Sometimes that's a very good thing.
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