How to Make an Egyptian Picture Frame Mask Part 1
Okay, actually I have another Egyptian project that you can do. We’re actually going to use a template which you’ll be able to find on your DVD or on my website. A little pattern that you can use, it will slightly smaller in size or you can go ahead and make your own.
And I actually made this template and it’s includes the Nemir cloth that the Egyptians typically wore and that really was to keep the sin out of their hair and another little interesting aside is heavy eye make-up that the men and the women wore in Egyptian times was to actually cut down on the glare in the desert from the sand. And now our football players actually do that. Put those big black marks under their eyes to cut down on the glares, so just a little interesting aside.
And I’m just using tag board and we’re going to use paint pens because you have a lot more control with those when you start doing painting, and of course you don’t have to have this is a little serpent that’s usually on the top of the crown of Egypt, and I’m going to put some eyes on here and make it look like a little snake like that, and this would come up a little bit higher, just do a little bit of drawing here and actually I’m going to put some eyebrows here. This part is going to be a cut out so that a photograph can actually go behind here, so when you’re finished it’s going to look like you dressed as an Egyptian.
And we’ll bring this down a little bit lower like this, and the Egyptians loved jewelry. And they didn’t just wear this. This was true for both the men and the women. They wore this big colored like necklaces that actually cover just cover the whole shoulder are here and chest, so we’re going to put some designs here that later we might make some changes too.
Let see and I’m going to go ahead and put a big lotus blossom here. You’ll see lots of designs also when the website and on the DVD and all those collections of patterns and designs that are typically Egyptian drawings. There’s a lotus blossom.
Now, I’ve got kind of an idea here, a start colors. The Egyptians used a lot of turquoise, gold, and silver. They would put jewels into some of their sculptures, Lapis lazuli and they did a lot of the enamel work. So I’m just going to pull out all my metallic paint pens, the gold and the copper and then silver, and lots of blue, red, purples, green. We may use yellow. But I think I’m going to start with the turquoise and I’m going to do with the Nemir cloth with the turquoise and gold.
And throughout all of Egyptian art, you’re going to find the same kinds of patterns and designs repeated throughout their different kinds of art their wall, tomb wall designs, their sculpture, the paintings on the sarcophagus’ cases. They are all used repeatedly throughout. Okay, you’re making head way here.
I decided to do a little bit of work on the lotus blossom down here, and you want to periodically look back and forth and make sure that you’re balancing out your colors that you don’t have too much on one color at the top and you’re not repeating it some place else, so don’t forget to do that. Black is a good color for outlining.
One thing you need to be aware of is when you’re coloring to make certain that you don’t accidentally put your face down on an area that is still wet with paint because they don’t dry quite as quickly as magic markers or Sharpie’s.
The paint we used is one minute sort to dry. So don’t get caught smearing, but if you do smear it’s not a big problem because these are paint markers and soon as they dry you can just go back over it and correct any mistakes that you might have made.
So, okay now I think I need to go to my little packet of Egyptian patterns and designs, and you definitely can find this on the website or on the DVD so you could print it out and this is a great reference. These are authentic Egyptian patterns and designs, and I have one here that’s a little bit further along, and I have utilized some of these patterns that are in here. They used a lot of floral designs and check our board designs, and you know feel free to take an idea and just pull from it what you want and to combine different elements of one design with another design because you‘re the artist, and basically you can do whatever you want.
I’ve cut this out and you just simply cut this out of the background. You’re going to cut out the opening of the face, and you’re going to finish your patterns and designs and take your photo and you actually put the photo behind the Egyptian mask.
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