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10 min drawing excersise/ primary research 

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10 min drawing excersise/ primary research 

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Small excersise carried out by ruudt on the first session, I have collage some of the drawing done from the session

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looking into Scottish animals.

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Done with watercolour

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Made with water colour and acrylic paint

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Using water colours and acrylics I made a more detailed drawing of the animal

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This was my favourite drawing from the activity I carried out, I think I will use this as my basis of my mask.

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This is a drawing of the mask of what I want it to look like.

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These are some of the materials I used to create the mask with. I used these materials as I felt they were most effective in showing the texture and colour of my mask.

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I carried out my own drawing excersise by using the three detailed drawings of my own version of a wolpetinger. I blind folded myself a drew three images for each wolpetinger, the first drawing was 1 minutes, the next was 30 seconds and the third was 15 seconds. I found this activity really fun as it let me draw without thinking too much about the detail and more the memory of the animals. This created weird little creatures that I will use to develop my mask into.

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using the leaves and moss from out in my garden i used them to create the structure and design of the moths mouth and face as it had similar texture and colour.

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using the leaves from my acer plant i contrusted the ears using them as they has similar texture and colour to the squirrels ears.

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I created a template using tinfoil to get the structure I wanted for the mask, I decided I would focus more on the eyes and ears of the mask and leave out the mouth and nose so that it is the opposite of what the masks we are wearing nowadays are used for.

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Using wire I Constructed a dom shape to create a frame for the moths eyes.

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Development image of panel for mask

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Adding the eyes onto front panel

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by belting into the tinfoil it means that i can achieve a lovely soft textured surface area for the front panel of my mask, by using the felting technique it also means i can take off the felt from the piece incase i want to resuse it for another project.

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Use the tinfoil as a frame for to glue the leaves on which I hope will achieve a feathery effect looking the the red squirrels ears.

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side view

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Hawk Moth Squirrel I wanted to create a mask inspired by different native animals in Scotland and mash their features together to create my own unique animal, like the Wolpertinger that Ruudt had spoken about.

I decided to use natural materials such as moss, sticks, and petals taken from my garden to create the details of the mask so that I was using natural colours that were found in the animals I had chosen. I created the base of the bask using tinfoil as it helped give a solid structure to the mask and kept it sturdy. for the moth eyes I used a wire frame and iridescent fabric to create a dome shape, to replicate the eyes.

I found it really cool that the colours in plant life in Scotland is similar to the colours in the animals that live in Scotland to help them camouflage, I want to take this forward into my work in the future as I am really interested in the colours that I find in my surrounding area and use things I find in wildlife to create and develop my work.