The basic idea of this project was to take natural non-animated elements such as wood, and create a figure or face that resembled something that could come to life.

I spent most of the time between project 1 and project 2 sculpting this mask for my presentation. Starting from a block of wood, I chipped and hammered my way through the wood to start forming the structure of a face.

When I got down to the basics of a nose, I realized that there was not going to be enough wood to create a full rounded face. So, I just stuck with the idea of forming the nose and I put all my enery into creating a "wizard" like nose that had a lot of shape and smooth curves.

It took a lot of time to sand down the nose and create the look I wanted, but all in all it came out just as I imagined. The next step was to "stair" down the wood from the basic face structure and make a space to add all of the dried wood and driftwood I found in a local park.

On each step, I added a layer of either driftwood or dried pieces of wood (purchased at a local craft store) so that the wood fanned out from the face. As I started to close in on the face, the face started to take shape and the beard of wood began to form and resemble that of a character you could find in Lord Of The Rings.

To top off the mask, I added select pieces of driftwood and bark to emphasize certain aspects of the mask. For example, the driftwood on the mustache is chosen specifically for it's rustic look and that it fans out on the ends rather than on the entire stick. The bark became the eyes and texture on the face.

The scale of the mask is massive. It's about 3 feet (width) by 5 feet (height) and around 20 lbs.