Today we’re headed to the Maryland Renaissance Festival which is one of my favorite yearly outings (sort of a birthday tradition). I’ll be wearing my usual costume, my sorta plague doctor/masquerade/exorcist/sorcerer/monk mash up.
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I made the mask two years ago, and love when I have an excuse to wear it. Below is my how-to of how I made the mask, which maybe will inspire you to do your own one day.
Anyway… the wife and I will be meeting up with a few other O.T.O. brothers and sisters, including Wimsaur and Jack o’ the Green for a day of anachronistic frivolity. She suggested we be on the lookout for a magickal item, and she’s got good instincts about that kind of stuff, so the hunt will be fun.
Mask How-To
So I started with this gold colored plastic mask. It was like $7 on Amazon. 
After sketching out how I wanted my design to fit on the mask compositionally, I started by creating a mat of blue painter’s tape, which I folded in half and on one side drew my designs. I then cut out the pattern and laid it over top the mask as sort of a reverse stencil. 
Here you can see the reverse side which is still blue. I ended up creating some additional dots and patterns with more tape. I also used rubber cement around the mask edge and eye holes, so I could peel it off later.
I then spray painted the mask black and once it dried, peeled off the tape and rubber cement, leaving the gold of the mask beneath.
Finished Renaissance Mask
Now in a bunch of places the black leaked through and I needed to clean up a lot of the lines. With a little work, I was able to mix some different metallic acrylic paints together that matched the original paint color closely enough you couldn’t really tell.
Finished Renaissance Mask
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Update: we didn’t end up making it to Renn Faire today. Another of our cats, Crowley has been really sick, so we ended up taking him to the vet a day early. He should be fine, but better safe than sorry.
Saturday 10/17/15
Sun: Libra
Moon: Sagittarius
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