Here's a cheap way to make masquerade or Venetian masks that look as good as real ones.
Most of my body art work requires some sort of props. These are often used only once or twice so they have to be cheap. Good quality masks start at around £20.00 GBP and go on up to hundreds of pounds for an original. Far too expensive to justify for a single shoot.
We're going to use readily available materials to create some nice masks.
Most of my body art work requires some sort of props. These are often used only once or twice so they have to be cheap. Good quality masks start at around £20.00 GBP and go on up to hundreds of pounds for an original. Far too expensive to justify for a single shoot.
We're going to use readily available materials to create some nice masks.
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What you will need to make these masks.
1 Pk cheap styrene joke shop masks
Some car repair polyurethane resin and glass tissue
Hot malt glue
Cyanoacrylate GEL super glue
Some off cuts of material (I like satin)
Artists acrylic paint and ink
Some lace edging (if you want to get really fancy)
Some two part epoxy putty.
Imagination
The joke shop masks are really cheap, I paid £5.00 for 10 masks, but they are pretty poor quality and at first don't look too promising. The eye slots are all wrong and they have awful nose and mouth holes. The noses are way too small, the lips are not well formed and they are really thin and floppy.
Never mind we can cure all that!
Here's the basic mask. I've marked out better eye holes with a felt pen.
1 Pk cheap styrene joke shop masks
Some car repair polyurethane resin and glass tissue
Hot malt glue
Cyanoacrylate GEL super glue
Some off cuts of material (I like satin)
Artists acrylic paint and ink
Some lace edging (if you want to get really fancy)
Some two part epoxy putty.
Imagination
The joke shop masks are really cheap, I paid £5.00 for 10 masks, but they are pretty poor quality and at first don't look too promising. The eye slots are all wrong and they have awful nose and mouth holes. The noses are way too small, the lips are not well formed and they are really thin and floppy.
Never mind we can cure all that!
Here's the basic mask. I've marked out better eye holes with a felt pen.
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the "tissue" i assume is fiberglass... sorry im australia and thats what we call it.
My daughter grabbed a box of tissues and though im sure i could use it.... maybe its not what you meant ;D
Im going with the fiberglass option to test first anyways...lol can always do another if it goes all wrong =)
thanks so much for this ... Lol daughter is yelling for me to hurry up!
Cheers!!
It's the tissue type that you want for these masks because the standard stuff is a little rough for this kind of work.
again thank heaps for this instubctable =)
In college, I helped my brother-in-law make a custom-fit Phantom of the Opera mask. We coated his face with petroleum jelly and then used small bits of masking tape, about dime-sized, to cover his face. Each piece overlapped with others, and it was perfectly form-fit. Two layers of that made a sturdy enough mask to be removed. Then we trimmed it and gave it several coats of white spray enamel, which stiffened it nicely. The final touch was a sprinkle of dust from a stick of glow-in-the-dark chalk while the final coat of paint was still tacky.
It turned out very professional-looking, and cost us almost nothing. I wish I still had pictures.
Thanks,
Don