Masks and other Art

[Elok]

I like the effect around the tip of the muzzle.  Don't know how one would achieve a "hairy" effect with paint--best not to risk spoiling it by trying, eh?

[Buster's Uncle]

I guess so.

A close examination of the actual dog -or at least the pics I've posted- reveals that the borders between the various colors could have used just a smidge of blur; but the black fading into the white, as you note, is really masterfully-done.

[E_T]

looks good....  Doggie!!

[Rusty Edge]

Mask-painter and perfect niece Buster models our work...

Awesome!

[Unorthodox]

You ever finish the bearded devil? 


Reworking my 'green man' mask is on my to-do list.  It's really showing it's age after....5 years, 4 of those wearing it.  As my cold weather go-to. 

[Buster's Uncle]

You ever finish the bearded devil?

Which one?

[Unorthodox]

Ah, so they're awaiting paint. 

I like that one on the red cloth best. 

Reminds me of a logo, though I can't place for what right now. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah; JohnnyDevil is what I'm posting on Facebook lately, and I find that revisiting those pics really pleases me.  Like, there's the least frustration associated with the making and maybe the best execution of the initial idea.  Probably my favorite creation of last year.

-Too bad it's kinda small for a grown man's face...

[Buster's Uncle]

Buster did this in-progress design for a contest at the county library.

[Unorthodox]

Impressive.   

Most impressive. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Gurlz got MAD talent, yo.  Not just sayin' 'cause I'm fond.

[Unorthodox]

I need to upload you some of Talia’s drawing.  My dear lord never in my dreams was I even close to that good at drawing. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Watching them noodling away so much more patiently than we could before the age of 30 is something, isn't it?

[Buster's Uncle]

As I said before, I've been posting pics of JohnnyDevil in the making, on the JKStudio Facebook, lately, and Sunday, Mylochka sez to me, she sez "I ought to paint that."

Next day, I had it laying out for her when she came by.  She asked me how I'd like it painted, and I said "Red devil, black horns and beard.  Like a mask when we were kids."  -Not just for you, Uno, but because my tastes in decoration run a lot more literal-minded than hers.  I am trying to work up energy to make a second mask for her to indulge her busy-decorative-and-possibly-not-thematically-connected tastes on.  I brewed up a new batch of paste not two hours ago...

Silver base coat to give a good surface and a faint sparkle

[Buster's Uncle]

Candy red bottom coat