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And here it is -- my finished mask!

The colour is a mix I made myself from metallic copper, beige, and red. It's not as dark as I intended, though I did put in a little red-black, I had intended to use brown instead of beige, and the red was not as scabby as I'd hoped, it turned out to be pinker than the colour indicated on the tube.

The horns and claws were painted first with the pink-scabby-red colour mixed with a touch of red-black, with the idea that the horns/claws darken as the age. I kept adding red-black and painting towards the tip of the horns. The very tips were done in red-black, to make them nice and dark.

The inside of the mask is red-black, as I wanted it to be dark on the inside, so I didn't continue the "skin" colour around to the inside of the mask. The thumb, that you can't see because it's "holding" the mask from the inside, is painted in the skin colour.

The handle was painted in red-black, and I gave the whole thing a few coats of a spray protective matte (which turned out awfully shiny despite the can's promises of a matte finish). The handle was then wrapped tightly in black ribbon (revealing as I worked, the irregularities in the handle), hot glued in a few places to keep everything from unravelling. A red ribbon was then wrapped around the handle for contrast. This is where they loop of paperclip comes in: the ribbons went through the loop and were tied off, in addition to being hot glued in place.

The ribbons are there to protect the mask from being handled. I didn't know how the clay/paint would react to being handled, even with the protective coat, so I wanted to wrap the ribbons around the handle to protect them. Plus, I like the look of the dangling ribbons.

For the photo, I drilled two holes through the mask into the large (hollow) rubber horns. I stuck some unbent paperclips into the holes as a temporary solution, I'll come up with something better when I hang it permanently. I do wish I could have gotten a photo of the shadows it cast on the wall, as it was being lit from the upper left and upper right, but without the flash, the image was extremely dark, and the flash washed out the lights completely.

There was one final disaster at the painting stage. When I was sculpting the handle, I'd noticed what felt like an air bubble under the clay, and I'd worked the clay to remove it. It turns out that there wasn't an air pocket at all, and that the handle underneath had separated. For some reason, this cause the clay to crack when it was drying, right along the "rim" of the handle. I had painted over the crack, thinking that I'd used too much water, and the clay had just shrunk a little, but when I was wrapping the handle with ribbon, I noticed it moving.

I pulled the handle off, and reattached it with copious amounts of hot glue, painting a rim of black over the join (it was supposed to be pink/brown/skin up to the edge of the "handle", but I was in no mood to try and remix the colour at this late stage).

At the end of the day, I'm very happy with how this turned out. The nose looks exactly how I wanted it to turn out, down to the hollowed nostrils (you can't see it in the photo, maybe I'll have to take some more to show the inside as well).

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