This week we are looking at Mask Making using Papier-mâché we will be showing you two techniques on how to make the masks with Artist Roz Moreton:
- Using Aluminium Foil that you mould to your own face
- Using Newspaper/Aluminium Foil/cling film on a board that you create into a mask shape
Materials that you will need:
- Newspaper – Lots of it!
- Tissue Paper if you have some
- Aluminium Foil – Thick
- A Board – or very thick cardboard to use as a base to mount the mask on when you are working on it
- Thin cardboard/Egg boxes/Textured card
- Masking Tape or scotch tape – is really good
- Scissors
- For the Paste – Plain Flour or Corn Flour and tape
- Water
- Spoon
- Bowl x 2
- Plate
- Cloth – to wipe your hands
- **You will need to make the paste the at least the day before to get the best Papier-mâché:
- The best mix is 1/4 cup of flour to 1 cup of water
- either mixed in a bowl over a hot bowl of water
- or heated in a medium heat in a microwave for 30sec stirring occasionally.
- Mix in some salt so the Papier-mâché does not go mouldy!
- Keep in the fridge overnight

























Materials – For the Design and Decoration of Mask
For the Design:
- Pencils 2B +
- Coloured Pencils
- Acrylic Paints + or Watercolours or Watercolour Inks if you have them to paint the design of the mask
- Paper – Large Size – Try a roll of lining paper or coloured papers
- Brushes – all sizes – fine/flat/wide
- Plastic sheets to put the paint on or flat plates
- Cloths
- Water
For the Decoration:
- Seeds
- Feather
- Leaves
- Twigs
- Strings/Ribbons
- Fabrics
- Etc…
- Objects that can create textures and patterns
Session Details
- We will do a warm-up using our bodies and minds…
- Then into a series of quick exercises drawing ideas of mask designs 2B + & coloured pencils making delicious BOLD lines marks experiments, drawing around the shape of HEADs as inspiration.
- using quick line techniques
- continuous line
- other hand
- blind
- 360/180/90/45 degree sketches
- Then using our big sized paper using the coloured pencils we will create a large outlines
When: Saturday 21st November 2020
Time: 10:45am – 1pm – 2 hour session
Starting at 11:00am prompt
Location: From the comfort of your own home through Zoom ( Zoom – not used it before then you will have to sign up it FREE)
Interested – Please email us at gwendraethartslab@gmail.com to sign up for the sessions