Multimedia Plaster Mask

Design In Mixed Media

This project
includes:
A plaster mask of your face
Papier mache
Tempera painting techniques
Paper collage

Plaster Mask

1. Get any hair out of your face. Use a hair tie and bandana if needed.
2. Cover face in thin layer of vaseline, especially cover eye brows or other facial
hair.

3. Have your gauze strips, paper towels, and 1/2 cup of water prepared in front of
you.

4. Mix 1 cup of plaster with 1/2 of water in bowl.

5. Dip gauze into plaster, use fingers to scrape off excess plaster.
6. Start with the outside edges of your face, near your hair line and ears.
7. With each new piece of plaster gauze, overlap the edge onto the other.
8. Once face is outlined in plaster gauze, cover bridge of noes (do not cover
nostrils!), under the eyes, and cheeks.

9. Save covering your mouth for last.

10.Let dry for 15-20 minutes, or until mask starts to stiffen, then wiggle facial

features to release the mask from your face. Let stand for another hour to fully
dry.

Vaseline
Plaster

Bandana

Gauze

Get any hair out of your face. Use

a hair tie and bandana if needed.
Cover face in thin layer of vaseline,
especially cover eye brows or other
facial hair.
Have your gauze strips, paper
towels, and 1/2 cup of water
prepared in front of you.

1/2 cup of
water
Mixing stick
1 cup of
plaster
Gauze strips

Vaseline

Plaster strips
around your
face

Plaster strips
nose and
cheeks

Cover strip
in plaster but
wipe away
excess.

Smooth
plaster gauze
onto face with
hands.

Overlap the
edges of the
gauze strips.

Use plaster

QuickTime and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

This extra area is

where you will be
adding more
three dimensional
shapes using
cardboard and
papier mache.
Secure mask
to cardboard
using wire.

Making
a plan
What shapes will
you add?

What colors will

go where?
What painting
techniques will
you use?

Adding shapes!
-Cones out of newspaper
-Circles from strips of
cardboard
-Shapes made out of papier
mache

Papier
Mache

(newspaper/paper towel dipped in

wallpaper paste)

Have shapes added before

starting the papier mache!

1.One - two layers of

newspaper.

2.One layer of paper

towel.

This is step
#2

3.One layer of gesso.

Gesso
is a binder.
will keep your

project from
absorbing too
much moisture.

gives you a

better painting
surface.

Paint/
Collage

Paint/
Collage

Building the
Project: