The Coolest Mask I Make...taa daahh!

[merimask]

So!  This is absolutely the coolest mask I make.  Medusa.

It's really really difficult to cut out, carve, and shape.  So I don't make them very often (this is the first Medusa I've done in three years).   This one has eleven snakes, shaded from gold to copper over a black base.  I thought green eyes for the snakes would really stand out nicely with all that gold so I used 3mm malachite beads.  Those eyes are a PAIN in the ass to sew in.  I sew them onto a small scrap of suede, cement the suede into each head after I position the eyes in the sockets, and then cement another piece of black suede under the chin, to hide all the sewing work.  ELEVEN TIMES!  Auuugh.  But, it's worth it because this mask really rocks (in my not-so-humble opinion) and is a total show-stopper.

You can see the heads just a bit more clearly from this angle.   That's all one piece of leather, by the way.

I did a ~second~ Medusa (eh, it keeps me busy) but the picture didn't load correctly so I'll post that another time.

Also, I had the best conversation with rumdiculous today, which unfortunately I failed to save.  Talking points:
1.  Someone really needs to cosplay Naraku, complete with Shard pasties
2.  Where might one tuck a $20, should one wish to tip a strategically sharded naked Naraku?
3.  '80's fantasy movies are mucho fun.  Glitter = magic!
4.  "Legend" is more disturbing than "Labyrinth".  Labyrinth has David Bowie's mesmerizing spandex-clad "area"...but Legend has Tom Cruise in a disturbing chain mail mini dress that shows off his hairless boy-thighs, and that wins.

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Legend has Tom Cruise in a disturbing chain mail mini dress that shows off his hairless boy-thighs

Thank god for that. I HATEHATEHATE body hair, it SOOOO grosses me out. All men should be utterly bald everywhere but their scalps. Women too of course, but they're already close enough to it to not be downright disgusting.

The mask is very cool, but I hate snakes so it would creep me out to have to touch it, lol. They look like they might actually move, and then I'd scream.

[empath-eia.livejournal.com]

That mask is spectacular. AMAZING talent you have.

Re: Legend... OMG you've SEEN that? I thought I was the only person in the world. I laughed my ass off. The whole way through. I'm going to go watch it again now and laugh some more.

Re: Naraku... I don't know, not much room for a twenty with the strategic-shard-setup *I* have in mind...

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Holy mother of all that is leather. Pardon me, whilst I kiss your feet. That is just freaking amazing. All that needs said. :D

And yes, I agree with #4. Legened is FAR more disturbing on several levels than Labyrinth.

The Mask

[(Anonymous)]

Merimask the Maskmaker: that Medusa mask, is in fact, way cool! It rocks! I can only imagine what would happen if you had to make, like, two dozen of them overnight for some demented review type Vegas Medusa song and dance show.

Umm...to keep the Tom Cruise/Legend theme alive...I never saw that movie. Didn't interest me back then, and not now, either. How 'bout this: if you wanted to, could you make me a Tom Cruise Top Gun mask based on the wire rim aviator glasses dear Maverick wore when he felt the need...the need for speed? If I commissioned you to? Could you? Just wondering.

NOT Anonymous, I just didn't head link (or whatever) this post properly,

Dave in Milwaukee

[moonphased.livejournal.com]

O_O!!!!

That mask is beyond awesome... o_O!! I've been meaning to comment on your maskage, but the ones I saw were so far in the past I figured it would be less prudish if I waited and then snuck a comment in one day... Hehehe. ^_^

Someone really needs to cosplay Naraku, complete with Shard pasties

Oh good lawrd, I read that as "complete with shard PANTIES." Which, of course, isn't all that far off, but... *demented face* And no special-effects-laden craptastic movie slapjob they do these days can ever even hold a candle to awesome 80's fantasy movies. ;)

[moko-moko.livejournal.com]

SO. This mask. I can't stop staring and linking my friends while screeching "GO AND SEE, PEON!"

And HAH, there's no element of that conversation you two had that I don't like XD

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

I'll bet that mask is so impressive in person.... *wants to try it on* I have no phobia of snakes, they're my favorite creatures. Plus I'm a huge fan of Medusa. I love the little snakes, they're so cute! And the green eyes really pop out giving the whole mask a interesting look.

Hm...I know of a few places to stick the twenty but I'm not gonna say. :D

Eek, thinking about Cruise's girl-thighs makes me cringe. He disturbed me more than Tim Curry's character. XD

Btw my friend still hasn't gotten over Labyrinth. We have this fabulous joke about the glitter and Bowie's area-but it's funnier to see it in person. I'll tell you the punch line though, "Want to see some glitter?! POW!" Now combine that with a pelvic thrust...