Kortney

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After being presented with “the mask” project I decided to go with something from the city of Holland. I love to visit there, and I would really enjoy it if I got to go to Hope College, which is in Holland. At first I thought I would try to carve a wooden shoe since Holland is a Dutch city, but that didn’t work so instead I made a tulip with my mask. The tulip festival happens every year in Holland and it’s kind of a big deal. After a lot of brainstorming I began my project of making my face look like a tulip. The production of my mask project was fairly difficult. I made it mostly from tissue paper, but since it was a flower I put it in a little purple flower pot I borrowed from rustic floral. For the stem of my flower I used the handle of a plunger I bought new from the dollar store. For support for the petals I used chicken fence wire and covered it with tissue paper. If I were to recreate my mask again I would do some things differently, like use thinner wire. The wire I used was really stiff and hard to sculpt. I would have also figured out a different way to attach the head of the flower to the stem because its not very sturdy. I attached it with mostly just hot glue. My favorite part about my mask is the fact that it’s 3 dimensional and purple.