Our page banner is a detail of a Deangle (feminine) mask from the Dan people in Liberia.
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Designing an African Mask - Step 9
Adapting your mask design - 4
- You can texture the card for your mask design with various materials such as paint, acrylic gesso, glue, sand, coloured tissue etc.
- Rough, worn and weathered effects give the mask design an authentic antique look.
Adapting your mask design - 5
- The cut out sections of the mask could also be used to create a stencil for spraying your design onto any surface.
- Whatever materials you use, you must keep a strong tonal contrast between the opposite halves of the mask.
- You want your mask design to be bold and simple so that it may seen clearly from a distance.
- Subtlety is not a quality you look for in tribal masks.
