{"id":1806,"date":"2017-10-29T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2017-10-29T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:02:49","slug":"halloween-2017-lion-mask-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2017: Lion Mask – Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cured Anya’s lion mask in the oven at 170 degrees F for several hours, and it got\u00a0hard<\/em>. Then we painted it. Anya wanted to be a\u00a0rainbow<\/em> lion. I had planned to blend a couple of pearlescent water colours — orange, yellow, brown, and cream — to make a tan-ish tone for the fur, then combine the red and cream to make a subtle pink for the ears.<\/p>\n

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When we were making the mask, I was worried the ears would be unstable. So I’d added a coating of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 on the back, extending down past where the ears mount to the main mask. This gave us solid ears that don’t seem like they’re going to snap off.<\/p>\n

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Anya painted the rest of the mask while I worked on the ears.<\/p>\n

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From the side — I’d left a void through which the strap could be run<\/p>\n

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We then used a glitter infused soft-gel watercolour paint to give the mask some sparkle – didn’t seem like a lot of glitter when the paint was wet, but the mask developed a nice sparkle as the paint dried. The tones are fairly subtle, and I took a wet brush to blend her sharp edges.<\/p>\n

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I cured Anya’s lion mask in the oven at 170 degrees F for several hours, and it got\u00a0hard. Then we painted it. Anya wanted to be a\u00a0rainbow lion. I had planned to blend a couple of pearlescent water colours — orange, yellow, brown, and cream — to make a tan-ish tone for the fur, then …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[377,51,5,378,417,418],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","tag-costume","tag-crafts","tag-halloween","tag-mask","tag-paper-mache","tag-papier-mache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}