Giant Mask: Horror Head!

Step 8 "Bring on the meat," said the walleye!

On this pass, I concentrated primarily on the back of his head. I went over the exposed skull with various shades of white, umber, and ochre, to get a somewhat dirty bone effect. After that, I used the same cherry cobbler/primary red effect on the exposed "meat" areas, this time adding in some white and some black to create a layered look.

Also added a few highlights to the "metal" areas, which weren't really necessary but it was fun for me.

I then mixed the primary red with some of my clear varnish, which I used to drizzle blood out of his exposed wounds.

Now, a word about the eyes. My initial idea was that they would have a kind of wild, crazy, walleyed look to them. I wanted the eyes to express a kind of ecstatic quality, but an ecstasy wherein you would be unsure whether it was a result of an overabundance of agony or of pleasure. Am I overthinking this?

Anyway, I think it worked. But in the end, I wasn't that crazy about it so I decided to paint them out and redo the irises.