My creations for an upcoming Mabon celebration. I made these masks by putting spray foam overtop simple face masks, then sculpting it in various phases of drying.
(be careful! Do not get this in your hair like I did! I was damn lucky, with a bit of help from the hair care products that Calesta so sweetly brought my pitiful butt, to get it out!). As the foam dries, you can pinch it and shape it, carefully, because the first thing to dry is the outer layer, forming a flexible skin over the soft, unhardened foam underneath. Spray painting it yields interesting results - the paint will sink into porous areas of the foam. If you were to carve it with a simple serrated knife after it dries, you can expose porous areas, which the paint will cause to deform in interesting ways. Painting over the unporous skin, though, yields smooth results. The foam is great for adding dried and silk flowers to. I poke into it with a nail, and stick the stem of the flower inside, then just hit around the edge with a hot glue gun.
