Lady-Cass

I was recently interviewed for a DA article during leather work week for leather masks.   It is here: http://news.deviantart.com/article/131364/

I have been in a little bubble of productivity of late.   I just discovered the "alchemy" feature to ETSY.   This is a really neat thing where people who want items custom made put out a request and crafter/artists bid on the item.  There was a lady who wanted a leather lion mask.   I have been wanting to do a lion mask anyway so I went ahead and made one.   I feel like as I make more masks the painting of the masks is really what is a focus.  I like the process of working up the "hair" texture on the animal masks and making use of shadow and highlighting to imply a greater seperation of parts of the mask.   It makes me happy when people see

I have been experimenting with new working techniques and having a blast with it.   The feather cutting on the raven mask went wonderfully.   I did the outside edges with the exacto blades as if there were clumped fine feathers and then I went back through with the 1/4 inch ceramic swivel blade and lined the insides of the feather heavily.   They came out in such detail that the feathers really looked realistic.   I would like to make some smaller face masks that are just feathers with this technique.   I also plan to experiment with variance of colors of these feathers.   I really need to work through some photographs of feathers to work out