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Cassandra Sandry
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I was recently interviewed for a DA article during leather work week for leather masks.   It is here:

news.deviantart.com/article/13…

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Recent works

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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 the picture and wonder if they are more than one piece of leather because it means I hit a goal with the shadowing.

My goals over the next few weeks are to redo a few of my older designs for my store.   I want to do a white and an orange tiger mask to list.  I want to do a green man mask to list as the one I made got sold to someone local before I had a chance to place it up on ETSY.  I have plans to do a treant mask.   My main feature is going to be a large highly detailed mindflayer mask based on the cover of the D&D underdark 4th edition book.

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New techniques

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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 some projects.

The fox mask was a great painting success.  I have a friend who is purchasing it from me already.   I am sort of sad to let it go but creating another one as soon as possible on on the to do list!.  The bright color contrast and painting techniques I used on it are something I would like to translate into some other animal masks.   I used the ceramic blade to work up a lot of detail and lines so touching the mask you have a lot of texture and depth, but visually the painting stands out more.  I am leaning more toward creating depth with the detailed painting than dry brushing the texture of the mask to create the fur look.  (Nothing wrong with that though!)

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I am thrilled with the leather.   I have been home sick a couple of days and early this afternoon my shipment of leather from Wickett and Craig got here.   It is LOVELY leather.   The quality is very nice and the cut is precise.  I love feeling the difference between the 4 6 and 8oz splits I got.  I have spent the day making a mask from it and just listed there here.  I am going to make a handful of simple masks to place on etsy because I want to be able to display a variety of items with different complexity and prices.  So tonight I am working on a very simple black mask as well as a burgandy celtic mask.  If all goes well I may complete both of these this evening.  I find myself rather wanting to keep everything I make rather than sell them off.   LOL   I would have a lot of masks if I did so.

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So I am waiting for my leather from Wickett and Craig.  I thought I might have it by today as they told me 1-2 days to split the leather and about 3-4 days shipping and I paid last thursday.  No luck.  I called and they are a bit behind because of all the orders being made to get leather before they close down for 2 weeks for thier annual shut down in July.  So now I am hoping it comes along by Wednesday/Thursday next week.   I have all these mask designs I want to do and no leather to work with.   I am working on putting together a purse kit now.   grrrrrrarh.   I want my supplies!!

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