Elephant Mask

Between the movie Dumbo and the Babar books, how could I not love elephants? My life long affection was solidified by my own anatomy, my uncles teased me about my large ears,which by some quirk of my child psyche, became a source of pride and my favorite feature.

I guess that's why I create earrings and wanted to pierce them again, way before your born, when two piercings were unheard of, and my mother threatened to put me out the house, should i do such a thing. Just to finish this tangent, about a decade and half later when I returned home to see the second piercings in her ears and screamed
in protest, she treated me to a pair of gold studs and my second piercings. End of non sequitur.

The most challenging part of designing this mask was the ears. There were three versions before I found the one I like. The trunk took two iterations.

Phoenix Bird Mask

As usual one thing leads to another and so I went from the Akua Bird to a Phoenix.
I sure want to rise, reborn, from the ashes of myself.

The first version was bit large, and the second, worked up too large in ww.
But in dk with a F/3.75, it turned out just right for the adult size. I'll guess that sportweight and an E may make the right size for kids.

AKUA BIRD MASK

I was emailing my sister about a new "friend", a red cardinal that chats, sings nearby,
and makes his glorious red self visible. There was another, a larger female that i sued
to see outside my kitchen window regularly. It took awhile for me to figure out what she was, and that she was a female of the same species. Last night this idea cam to me and I couldn't stop until I finished it. I took a few notes along the way, but at a certain point it's easier to just make it than to write.