The Arty Farty Diary: Folk Art Final Products

In a way I was glad to be done with this project because I felt I had linger too long and too much on this project and since I had a big headache over "OH-NO-WHAT-DO-I-DO?" and I kept panicking if it would if reflect my pathway properly and all that. Sigh, so after creatively pulling my head out of arse I managed to get on with it - this all started with me finally getting a mask design drawn out and painted.

I attempted at making some low-lights on the mask so that the mask wasn't as such a pure blue block colour but it didn't quite work as I had hoped - but I think if you look closer you could see it but I kind of over did the dark blue on the mask.

When I came to paint the gold features I was a bit dismayed that the gold paint was diluted in the latex mixture and was more of a weird beige then gold but I instead painted that one then painted over and into that latex with the gold paint and luckily the colour stayed better when painted that way - I really loved how the gold against the blue mask was really striking

Then I painted the eyes white to make them look more striking and bold, I did think it was too much but the whole point of these masks were to hold the eyes of the viewer and this definitely is achieved in this.

I then went to paint the iris on - this went terribly and I never want to freehand paint circles as iris ever again. I had to paint over the right eye with white again and I'll have to wait until it dries to paint it again.

After mounting the embroidery on the card shape I sewed it on the rest of the hat it was a little too big for the hat and really the teardrop shape wasn't doing much for it and was a bit big so that is something I would improve on if I were to do it again. The rest of the hat I think went really well and even though it wasn't as grand and decorative as I had hoped but that came down purely to overestimating how much of the embroidery I could do the time that I had - it also didn't help that I spent a while having a lot of trial and error and had a awfully long period of creative blockage, and by the time I had managed to get out of that I didn't have a great deal of time left.

However, I think after I got out of that I did manage to get something made and properly for the end of this topic - it did match with my final idea for the folk hat that I wanted but the only thing that I missed was the little strings of beads that was supposed to dangle from either side of the hat.