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Here is a link to my mask making Facebook page. Updated almost daily with every mask project I am working on including personal work and custom commissions. Check it out!
Category: Articles on masks
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A collection of Paper Mache and Resin masks made by artist Launa Eddy
Category: Photos
Added on: Mar 08, 2015 | Hits: 74622
Just Posh Masks stocks a huge range of genuine Venetian masks for your masquerade ball, carnival, theatre production or prom Sold decorated or undecorated so that you can create your own vision
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
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Colorado artist Launa Eddy is a custom mask maker, making pieces in Paper Mache and Resin for private functions, theater, festivals, music videos, photo shoots, and beyond.
Category: Mask artists
Added on: Mar 08, 2015 | Hits: 69461
Artist Jess Newton of Jess the Mask Maker Studios presents The Masquerade Exhibit. Official site.
Category: Mask artists
Added on: Jul 26, 2015 | Hits: 67909
la sperimentazione comprende maschere di vario tipo e in vari materiali
Category: Mask artists
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A blog for people who want to wear masks to explore, trigger and make changes.
Category: Teaching - workshops - education
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Artyfactory is a free online workshop for artists of any age. Try out our African Mask unit and follow the step by step instructions to design an African tribal mask.
Category: Mask making
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Masks by Jess the Mask Maker Facebook fan page. See progress pictures of hand made masks.
Category: Mask artists
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The mask festival on Aeroe lives on at Facebook - have a look!
Category: Festivals - carnivals - celebrations - holidyas
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Venetian Carnival Masks Wholesale in Venice. An exclusive selection of the authentics handcrafted and traditional masks made in Venice.
Category: Maskmakers / Papier mach
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A group open to anyone who loves masks. Features 5 creatiouns from a new artist each week. Artists are also featured on Pinterest. Why not have something lovely in your news feed?
Category: Mask organizations / webcommunities / portals etc.
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Hand made paper mache masks. Artist gallery features masks that are currently available through the artist, or at Renaissance Faires. Specializing in Renaissance and Medieval styles.
Category: Maskmakers / Papier mach
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Vor 20 Jahren habe ich damit begonnen Masken anzufertigen.
Category: Mask artists
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Currently Geese USA provides-training in using drama therapy with violent and sex offenders at every level, drama and art work as restorative justice mediators, connection arts for the community, the creation of original client centered productions for institutions and the public and even ethics training for police.
Category: Inspirational non mask links
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NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, aims to bridge the gap between consumers and the many talented artisans around the world. Through regional offices, NOVICA works directly with local artists to provide the best quality handcrafted products available. NOVICA's extensive masks collection includes the work of talented master carvers from around the world.
Category: Mask artists
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Mixing the Primary Colors Making Colors Lighter or Darker The Color Wheel: Colors opposite on the color wheel are complementary colors. For example, violet and yellow are complementary colors. The warm colors include reds and yellows; the cool colors include blues and violets. The neutral colors are black, white, and grays.
Category: Mask making / Methods
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Among the most colorful and fascinating of these festivals were the masked dance ceremonies known as Tsam. These ceremonies, introduced in the eighteenth century, were held around the New Year with the purpose of destroying the evil that had accrued during the past year. Performed by monks, the characters portrayed in the dances included a wide variety of terrifying deities from the Lamaist pantheon. Today, however, in newly independent Mongolia Tsam ceremonies are once again being performed.
Category: Mask tradition / Cermonies
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September 27 - Octorber 6, 2002
Category: Festivals - carnivals - celebrations - holidyas
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Masks and items for carnival
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
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People from all continents know the traditional use of papier-mache in a large variety: dolls, masks, puppets, toys, decorations,... That is because it's such a cheap, varied, easily obtainable and processable material. But this hasn't always been the case. For centuries, paper was very valuable and the processing of it into papier-mache was a time-consuming and labour-intensive process. For the history freaks among you, we gladly present a historical-geographical survey.
Category: Mask making / Materials
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By Susan Cochrane In the Torres Strait Islands there are no art schools and art galleries like on mainland Australia. Many cultural objects are created and enjoyed for local purposes. Dance costumes and accessories are among the most important and distinctive creations of Torres Strait Islander culture. Some of the earliest known examples are the magnificent articulated turtleshell masks, such as those collected by the 1898 Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait, which are acknowledged treasures of the Torres Strait people's cultural and artistic heritage.
Category: Mask tradition
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"I have been building masks and puppets since 1996, and sculpting and drawing since I was old enough to hold a crayon. I love creating visual art with almost every medium, but things like mask-making and puppetry are particularly fascinating to me as they bring art into that magical dimension of time and movement."
Category: Maskmakers
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This page gives access to further pages showing African traditional masks and describing the culture of the tribes whose masks are shown. The texts are in French - - but the photos need no words. To access the other pages of masks see in the right hand column under the title "Masques Africaines".
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
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a Step by Step guide to creating your own Life Mask! Welcome! I've created this site because I've discovered that so many people, like me, are absolutely fascinated with masks. This site is a kind of "e-guide" that will lead your easily and successfully through both the technical steps (it's easy-really I promise!) as well as some of the more profound therapeutic applications and soulful self-discovery that can be realized by making your own (or another's) Life-Mask. For starters you might want to take a look at About Masks and a few Examples of Self-Masks? or, if you're ready to dive in and get started, you can just jump right in to Making a Face Mask and let your Self-Mask begin! I offer Mask Making Workshops, and I Create Commissioned Life Portrait Sculptures of people using the life casting as a mold for a ceramic or bronze finished piece...
Category: Maskmakers / Other materials - latex - mixed media etc.
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papier m?ch? masks inspired by nature, folklore and ethnology
Category: Maskmakers / Papier mach
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Nepal is a country at the crossroads between India and Tibet and thus the forms of worship found there contain elements of Indian Vedic and Tantric Hinduism as well as Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Bon (animism). The diminutive Nepalese "masks" shown here are small papier mache hangings meant to be placed on walls, especially above or beside doors and windows, to invoke the aid of popular Hindu deities. In the style typical of Tibetan and Nepalese tantric hagiography, they are all wearing elaborate pointed crowns and displaying their open third eyes.
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
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Claws, teeth, feathers and tools for GOURDERS AND CRAFTERS and maskmakers.
Category: Mask making / Materials
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Specialising in simple to make kids masks and animal mask patterns. Make storybook characters come to life with our easy and effective felt mask patterns. Each pattern sews up quickly and easily with step by step instructions and colour photos.
Category: Mask making
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"....Figure 1: This Chapayeka wears the older style white mask made of hide with long ears and a sharp nose. His folded blanket is also worn in the traditional manner. Chapayeka means "long nose" in Yaqui, perhaps referring to the early Spaniards......"
Category: Mask tradition / Cermonies
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Arlecchina's Masks is now open to the public. We work in papier mache primarily (though we are exploring other techniques. We offer full face character masks, commedia dell'arte masks, gargoyles, historical reproductions, as well as a pantheon of Greek Gods.
Category: Maskmakers
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Liza Fourre Need a break?? Yearn to concentrate on your art or writing?? Always wanted to try backstrap weaving or work on your Spanish, but never had the time or just the right opportunity? Whether you are a corporate type who has finally decided to pursue that love of photography, an art instructor or professional artist who wants to stretch your artistic endeavors - Art Workshops in Guatemala has something to expand your creative horizons. We offer workshops in the arts as part of a unique and well-planned travel experience. A look at our courses shows the variety of classes offered by instructors who are well-established and successful in their fields. Classes are small, with a maximum of ten participants. We prefer that each student have plenty of individual attention and a unique and rewarding experience in Guatemala.
Category: Inspirational non mask links
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1973, Cameroon Cloth, wood, feathers, porcupine quills, mirrors, herbs, raffia, cowrie shells, knife, basketry rattle, genet skin, and eggshell Height 85 in 216 cm ? Seattle Art Museum, Washington, gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company, 81.17.1977. Photograph by Paul Macapia.
Category: Mask tradition
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These unique leather masks and sculptures are the original creations of Andrea M. Harris, a self-taught artist who has been working exclusively with leather for over 8 years. No forms or molds are used, and no two are exactly alike. Every piece is an original, signed and dated by the artist. The masks are designed to be functional as well as beautiful. Consider them wearable art.
Category: Maskmakers / Leather
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( SCROLL DOWN PAGE TO GET TO THE MASKS ) Borucan craftsman have for centuries created elaborately carved balsa and cedar masks as essential accoutrements of the festival. They originally depicted jaguars, mountain pigs, mythological and ancestral figures (personajes y los antepasados). As resistance to the Conquest grew, the character of the ritual and the masks changed to include ghoulish devils, which is of course a European idea, bearded Spaniards, mules, horses, blacks (from contact with slaves) and, importantly, the bull as the symbol of the Conquest
Category: Mask tradition
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The International Mask Dance Festival was first held in Andong in 1997. That first festival was just a small little thing, one long weekend in length, and though it featured some of the most famous traditional performers in Korea (such as Kim Duk-soo and Ahn Sook-sun) it was nothing compared to the well organized, incredibly fascinating spectacle put on this year. Through trial and error the Mask Dance Festival has now emerged in my opinion as one of the most memorable, fascinating and fun times to be had in Korea. Now featuring a permanent stage area, with a state of the art sound system and bathrooms with paper towels in them (gasp), the most interesting sites are not always on the stage.
Category: Festivals - carnivals - celebrations - holidyas
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Arlecchina's Masks are designed for the actor, tempered by experience and forged in the creative spirit of innovative performance. Each mask is handcrafted from start to finish by its Maskmaker. The masks themselves range from historical reproductions to variations of familiar stock Commedia characters to wild flights of fancy that embody the renaissance of interest in contemporary mask performance
Category: Maskmakers
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The Baden carneval
Category: Festivals - carnivals - celebrations - holidyas
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The National Center for Creative Aging is dedicated to fostering an understanding of the vital relationship between creative expression and healthy aging, and to developing programs that build on this understanding, by: 1. Advocating for quality arts programs as being essential to the well being of older adults. 2. Providing professional trainings. 3. Fostering the understanding and practice of life review. 4. Evaluating arts and aging programs and identifying and promoting best practices. 5. Supporting the replication of best practice models throughout the country. 6. Developing and disseminating resource materials. 7. Serving as a clearinghouse for the exchange of information and resources. 8. Supporting research and policy toward developing the field.
Category: Inspirational non mask links
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I began making masks in 1980. I have respected original traditions from the start. Even thou I have a wide range of types and decorations, from traditional carnival masks and italian comedy art, to modern art types, I personally prefer those traditionally meant for canival and a character representation. Besides the mask creations I have explored techniches and materials that allows me to experiment in a way that my work can be identified for it's personal recognisable style.
Category: Maskmakers
Added on: Feb 10, 2003 | Hits: 29157
We are showing traditional Japanese Noh Masks (Noumen), Devil (Oni) Masks, Kyogen Masks, Shishigashira for (Lion dance). We have over 120 historical character masks available for purchase, also we can create and supply any kind of masks you like."
Category: Maskmakers / Wood
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( Want to see Swiss maskart? This is it ! More than 900 different models !) You can buy your mask here.
Category: Maskmakers / Papier mach
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Watch the creation of a sea monster
Category: Mask making / Methods
Added on: Feb 01, 2003 | Hits: 28881
Bouffonteatern (Bouffontheatre) is a swedish Commedia dell?Arte troupe with members from Teatropen and Comediennes.
Category: Mask performance
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Fabulous Mask Theatre in Krakow,polen. ( I have been there,so I know...susan) Sorry the site is not in english.
Category: Mask ensembles / Mask performers
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Here you can buy online - among thousands of other wonderful things - Celluclay and Celluclay II ( PAPIRLER ) Instant Paper Mach? - Simply add water. Needs no firing; air dries. Completely nontoxic. Adheres to almost any surface. Versatile - can be sanded, sawed, and nailed.
Category: Mask making / Materials
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"My gourd face masks bring the spirit of imagination to life." I use a blend of oil base paints, fine sand, stains, acryllics. Pheasant, turkey, hackle feathers, horse hair,etc. in my creations.
Category: Maskmakers
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W.W. Swalef & Son is a wholesale company dealing in all kinds of fancy feathers. We carry a beautiful selection of peacock, ostrich, pheasant, & rooster feathers. We have been in business in the United States for more than 30 years.
Category: Mask making / Materials
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Papier-Mache Masks by V. C. Howard...
Category: Maskmakers / Papier mach
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Links to carnevals all over the world.
Category: Festivals - carnivals - celebrations - holidyas
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( Can make, or teach you how to make floats or anything you desire ) ARTE-CARTA gathers firms that operate in the planning and realization sector of manufactured articles made of papier-mach?, plastic reinforced by incorpored fiberglass, polyurethane, polystyrene. Our lengthy experience guaranties a high quality in restrained costs. Our manufactures answers to the fireproof and safety normativeness.
Category: Maskmakers
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A beautiful shop in Venice. A real traditional maskmaker. We've the real traditional mask of Venice!
Category: Maskmakers
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Over 200 authentic African tribal masks, sculptures, statues and bronzes collected by Yuri and Ilya Raskin ; "My name is Yuri Raskin. Together with my son, Dr. Ilya Raskin, I have been collecting African tribal art for 25 years. Educated in linguistics, geography and art history, I devote most of my time to building my own art collections and to introducing others to the wonderful world of Tribal art "
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
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I'm a Canadian artist of mainly Italian descent. I come from a multi-cultural family of creative, self-taught artists with many natural talents. My parents and paternal grandparents were fashion designers. A self-taught artist myself, my artwork includes a broad range of mediums from fine art paintings and murals to pen and ink cartoon illustrations. However, I prefer to express my creativity mainly through my hand painted, mask-shaped sculptures using techniques I developed myself. I love writing stories about the subjects that inspire me and I'm forever experimenting and combining all sorts of materials that I incorporate in my creations. I also enjoy playing with photos of my artwork and creating new images with my digital skills that I then offer as art prints on canvas that you can order online on my website. I have a degree in Urban Economic Geography from McGill University and I worked in many fields: as a commercial artist in an advertising firm, a talk show host for CHIN Radio and Television in Toronto, a mediator for landlord and tenant disputes at the Ontario Residential Tenancy Commission, a cartographic toponymist and then a compensation policy analyst at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. After leaving my career in the public service, I moved to the province of British Columbia where I exhibited my artwork in both private and public galleries as well as in a Canadian museum where I had a solo show for 3 months. My husband and I owned and operated Dreamscapes Gift Gallery, an award winning gift gallery for 15 years (where I also sold my artwork). My original mask sculptures, paintings and art prints on canvas are in numerous private collections in North America, Europe, Russia and Australia. I also created and published an art book entitled:"On the Face of the Waters".
Category: Mask artists
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? Azur & les A?roplanes ?, a theatre company founded by visual artist Patricia Gattepaille, has chosen to explore the infinite and extraordinary territories of the Mask. Why the Mask ? What the genius of mankind has invented to celebrate the gods and nature, Mourn the dead, glorify the living, laugh, provoke awe or admiration, educate, celebrate Love, solemnise meetings, mock, recite poetry, cure? All this has been done by calling on the Mask.. In theatre, the Mask is a sculpture as much as it is a character. One does not wear a Mask thoughtlessly but with lightness and precision. Wearing a Mask involves bringing into play one?s own humanity. Restoring the Mask?s spectacular place at the heart of life. Participating in the understanding of the world?s cultures through the Mask. ? Azur & les A?roplanes ? pursues these two objectives through various activities : mask making on commission, training courses for professionals, exhibitions, shows, creative workshops for all. We will mask them all ! Just to clear things up?
Category: Mask artists
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Want to be a bird, a rabbit, an antelope or a hunter? + brief vdeo/sound clip, Dogon maskdance
Category: Mask making
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"In what has developed into a personal journey of rediscovery of his own cultural heritage, the 32 year old Schweig has accelerated and carried his art to new heights. Corroborating with renowned West Coast painter and master carver Art Thompson of the Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth nations, Schweig has created his own, "intensely personal" series of Adoption Masks. Born from the tragic victimization he experienced at the hands of abusive adoptive parents, the Adoption Masks - titled Inuit Man Screaming - are powerful, expressively carved images of the human spirit; beautifully married elements of aesthetic beauty and vivid expressions of pain. Influenced by the artistic style of Indonesia and inspired by a child?s suffering, the masks are dedicated to all who have been uprooted from their culture and tragically victimized" (from the website - go downpage to view maskgallery )
Category: Maskmakers / Wood
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Masks in leather, wood and all kinds of materials. Professional maskmaker and sculptor since 1990. Trained by Donatos Sartori, Italy and Ida Bagus Anom, Bali
Category: Mask artists
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Seven authentic Mexican folk masks, each based on an authentic historic example, richly diverse in their origins and significance. Among them are two sinister devil masks, a skull mask, a spectacular bat mask and a tiger mask. Easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams show how to cut, fold, glue together and wear each of these fabulous works of art. $7.95
Category: Mask books - film - video
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(Offers workshops..Steps of maskmaking shown in the site...) Gianfranco Lojacono: Born in Venice, 1967. Since his youngest years, he developed a great interest about handcrafting laboratories, when he learned the bare bones of sculpture.
Category: Maskmakers / Papier mach
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Sculpted leather masks, crowns & collars; hand made by Cleo. Each unique. Masks may be purchased from website or special orders may be placed.
Category: Maskmakers / Leather
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Beautiful African Masks for sale here
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
Added on: Mar 31, 2003 | Hits: 27900
From improvisation to cultural performance, this site is focused on forms of drama that exists outside of theatrical spaces. It is designed to be a useful introduction to: the theatre of image; large scale dramatic construction techniques; processional theatre; outdoor performance; and mask, ritual and spectacle. It contains useful practical techniques as well as a theoretical exploration of the field. If you are interested in finding out more about celebratory performance, carnival, outdoor theatre or site-specific performance it is well worth a look. Banners, Lanterns, Parades...A guide on how to do it all.Very good.
Category: Street theatre
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Welcome to our coverage of the 10 day (90 hour) workshop in the design and construction of leather performance mask. This workshop is being run by Paolo Consiglio, a master leather mask maker and teacher from Florence, Italy. It is being held at The Crago Mill Regional Arts Centre, Piper Street, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. It has been financed by a Visiting Artists' Grant from Charles Sturt University and is open to the local community and students from CSU
Category: Mask making / Methods
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Rebirth African art and craft. South Africa. Fine resource! "For thousands of years, rituals and masking ceremonies were an integral part of African life. The gradual, effects of parceled out African territories to Colonial governments, and the ensuing damage to traditional economies. followed by, the displacement of huge quantities of people, by colonialism, resulted in economies and food production systems being wrecked. Africans have lost some of its tribal identity and culture, masking ceremonies are no longer common place in Africa"
Category: Galleries - exhibitions - shops
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Createx is a manufacturer of high quality artist paints. We have several different product lines, including our world famous Airbrush Colors, Acrylic Colors, Liquid Fiber Dyes, Monotype Colors, Marble Color, and Pure Pigments. Go to our product lines page for product selection, color charts, technical information and user guide.
Category: Mask making / Materials
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The Egyptians believed that death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through Mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment. Each human consisted of the physical body, the 'ka', the 'ba', and the 'akh'. The Name and Shadow were also living entities. To enjoy the afterlife, all these elements had to be sustained and protected from harm
Category: Articles on masks
Added on: Jan 29, 2001 | Hits: 27718
Welcome to our coverage of the 10 day (90 hour) workshop in the design and construction of leather performance mask. This workshop is being run by Paolo Consiglio, a master leather mask maker and teacher from Florence, Italy. It is being held at The Crago Mill Regional Arts Centre, Piper Street, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. It has been financed by a Visiting Artists' Grant from Charles Sturt University and is open to the local community and students from CSU. It is being covered on the Net by staff and students of the Communication School at CSU's Bathurst Campus. You will be observing the processes of casting the the makers' faces to obtain a positive face mould on which the masks will be designed in clay. A positive plaster mould of the intended mask will be carved onto a wooden block. Over this block leather will be stretched, beaten and smoothed to create a performance mask. As part of this workshop there will be readings from Dante's "Divine Comedy" and various other Italian cultural delights. Please enjoy the processes involved in the fine art of leather mask making. Masks have been used throughout the history of theatre. They were a significant part of the the Western World's first professional theatre, the Commedia dell' Arte, which developed in Italy in the 16th Century.
Category: Mask making / Methods
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Ahousaht Band, Nuu-Chan-Nulth Tribal Nation Native artist from the west coast of Vancouver island Traditional wood masks carved by Hugh Sam Nuu-Chah-Nulth Spirits Mask (Eagles of the moon) Hugh Sam was born in Tofino, B.C. an is a member of the Ahousaht band of the Nuu-chan-nulth tribe located on the west side of Vancouver Island. Hugh's father Stanley, is a true historian and storyteller and is the speaker for the chiefs of the Wolf Clan, a privilege that was passed down from his grandfather. Hugh's mother Katie Sam, does knitting, beadwork and makes drums.
Category: Maskmakers / Wood
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BOXTALES Theater Company uses storytelling, music, masks, and movement to present world myths and folktales to families and young audiences.
Category: Mask ensembles / Mask performers
Added on: Jun 09, 2002 | Hits: 27617
"This is a very old method of "painting" that can be dated as far back as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Heated coloured wax is applied hot to a surface in a series of layers.It's recent revival is due to a strong Dutch interest in encaustic art. The major practitioners being based in the Netherlands. On the web there are some very informative sites. For those who have some tired old masks this may be just the method to employ in search of their renovation. Indeed, with wax you could look forward to changing your mask collection with the colour of the seasons." Dave Riley,Australia
Category: Mask making / Methods
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Photos of masks, costumes, ceremonies, sacred dances. Among the tribes portayed are Hopi, Zuni, Tewa. The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture. Curtis said he wanted to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners." In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes. Sensitive Images and Text This online collection contains all of the images and caption text as originally published in The North American Indian. The captions reflect a perspective that Indians were "primitive" people whose traditional cultures and ways of life were disappearing. In his representation of Indians as the "vanishing race," Curtis echoes the prevailing view held by Euro-Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contemporary readers should interpret the captions in that context. Some captions and images portray ceremonial rituals and objects that were not intended for viewing by the uninitiated. No images have been excluded or specially labeled. They are included in this digital collection in order to represent the work fully
Category: Mask tradition / Cermonies
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Annual Brunka tribal ceremony in the villages of Boruca and Rey Curr?, South Pacific zone of Costa Rica. ?This symbolic celebration is of a post-colonial origin, it represents the tireless struggle between the Spanish and the natives. It encompasses the whole process of the historic confrontation of our great-grandfathers as well as the defense our ethnic cultural values. This struggle was also in defense of the traditional social system of the aboriginal peoples ? their culture, their forms of communal organization etc. It was recognized very early that the new ideology and methodology inspired by the colonist was to the detriment of our way of life, our environment and our ancestral knowledge and resources. Today we, their descendants, are suffering the consequences: the elimination of the forests, the drying up of our rivers, the rapid extinction of our native fauna, the brazen extraction of our archeological heritage, the contamination of land and waters.? (Rodolfo Rojas, Brunka leader of Rey Curr?, 1995)
Category: Mask tradition / Cermonies
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Xothique Designs' exclusive masks are hand crafted in leather and papier mâché using traditional techniques by experienced UK mask maker Helen Rich, aka 'Xothique' (or 'Zothique'). Styles range from traditional theatre costume and masquerade masks inspired by the Venetian Carnevale to more exotic gothic and fantasy themes popular at Halloween and Faerie-themed events. Some, such as the popular Welsh Red Dragon mask, are truly unique — similar mouldings can be created, but no two masks will ever be identical. Others, like these party masks, are kept as permanent moulds, and can be decorated to meet your requirements. Xothique Designs masks are all entirely hand-made by the artist — you will find no plastic, card or ready-made mask forms here. You can buy Helen's masquerade masks direct from the Xothique Designs shop. If you have a specific design in mind, please check out Helen's commissions page, and get in touch to discuss your ideas.
Category: Mask artists
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Lifecasting is the art of taking molds directly from the human body. It is an ancient art form dating back to the time of the Egyptians. Here you will find the largest offerings of lifecasting art, kits, supplies, videos, books and instruction found anywhere. We have many unique items that can be found nowhere else and all at great prices, too. We work very hard to provide you with the highest quality life casting kits and supplies to give you museum quality results. So immortalize yourself or a loved one, today. Try lifecasting just for fun or start a lifecasting business for profit. Either way we are here to help.
Category: Mask making / Materials
Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 27460
The act of mask making gives me both kinesthetic and visual pleasure, as the leather flows beneath my fingers. A dialogue develops between myself and the leather and it is as if I'm shaping water, molten rock or wind. Two of the masks on this page are what I call masked masks.
Category: Maskmakers / Leather
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