Charlotte's+Mast+project



Some of my mask ideas. The mask is going to be about the Danish fairy tale author H. C. Andersen, because he is Danish. He has written some of the most famous fairytales for kids including //The Little Mermaid// and //The Ugly Duckling////.// A lot of folks don't know that he is from Denmark and I grew up with all his stories so I thought that it would not only show something about me, but also my country. I want to paint on some of the most famous characters from his fairytales and put quotes on there too. Them I am going to give my mask a weird nose, because Andersen had a very significant weird nose. I am also going to, if possible, give him a black at on and if not, give him the same kind of hair that he had. The mask is going to be placed in a big book of obvious reasons. Some of the difficult things could be to get the paintings to turn out good, even when they are going to be really small. It could also be difficult to get the nose good and to get the message out to the viewers.

Reflecting Writing

My personal connection to this piece of art, it that it is based on fairy tales like The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling. These are all written by a danish author named Hans Christian Andersen and since I am a Dane, I wanted to focus on one of the things that Denmark have made. I grew up with these stories and I think that most of you at least now The Little Mermaid and they mean a lot to me.

The process of making my mask started with making sketches of the drawings that I wanted to paint on the mask on small sticky notes. Then I arranged them on my sketch and started drawing them on the actual mask. When I was done painting them, I printed out a map of Denmark, glued it on a board, printed out two versions of The Little Mermaid, one in Danish and one in English, and made the paper look old. Then I glued them in a book and glued the book on the board. I placed the mask on the board too and started cutting out small Danish flags. I made a Danish flag pole and connect the flags all over the setup. The biggest problem was to get the painting to be pretty. This first of all meant to get the paint to stick to the mask. Then I had to sketch on the mask and get the paint to be pretty. I solved the first problem by letting a paint and modge page mixture dry over the weekend which sealed the paint and let me paint on it.

I think that my project is successful and I like it. It takes some knowledge to understand the project because not everybody know that much about Denmark. But when you get it, I would say that it makes sense and therefore it successful.