Painting - Masked and Unmasked

Blogging has been light the past few weeks because I have spent a lot of time preparing one of your rooms for our daughter and her husband. Emily is preparing for nursing school and wants to lighten her work load a couple of days a week. SO with that said, there was a lot of fixing up to do. Take a house that is almost a hundred years old and let teenage boys live in the room for the past 10 years and there may be a hole in the wall or some other rough boy type use. I have several photos of the process as I updated my daughter on the progress. One of the last ones had some touch up like cleaning the windows. None the less, it is a photo.

Painting requires masking off areas and then unmasking. Today there was another twist on painting. One of the final things Jacob and I did for a homework assignment for his Spanish class was to put a light coat of paint on his mask. Before painting there was several hours of paper mache action today. The mask is an example of a Puerto Rico festival mask in the genre of the peacock. He is in a group with two girls and he is going to let them paint the mask and put the peacock feathers on it. The mask has a peacock on the front of it and the feathers will extend out to the peacock to create a nice feathery plume.

Of course there was the inspiration for this mask. What else would you expect for a festival mask when you are in a group and there are twice as many girls.