Well this was a project! I volunteered to do costumes for my high school's Drama Club, and they're doing "Once Upon A Mattress". I was responsible for organizing all the costumes and making the Nightingale costume. Here is my Process for making the mask.
First I used a half-face mask for the base, and sculpted a beak out of air-dry clay. After the clay had dried, I applied Felt pieces to the mask using hot glue. These pieces were guides for my feathers.
The feathers all had to be shaped, so I was COVERED in feather fuzz. I then applied the feathers one at a time using little globs of hot glue. I added sequins under the eyes to give the eyes a wet, living look to them.
Here I started applying the last layer of brown
feathers. I had to add a rolled up piece of felt under the back of the brown guide felt to help the feathers stand up. The peacock feather also had to be trimmed,so I used the left over feather for eyelashes, which seemed to work pretty well. The brown nose felt worked well for securing the beak to the mask. The beak was spray painted with gold and sparkles, which doesn't show up very well in the picture.
First I used a half-face mask for the base, and sculpted a beak out of air-dry clay. After the clay had dried, I applied Felt pieces to the mask using hot glue. These pieces were guides for my feathers.
The feathers all had to be shaped, so I was COVERED in feather fuzz. I then applied the feathers one at a time using little globs of hot glue. I added sequins under the eyes to give the eyes a wet, living look to them.
feathers. I had to add a rolled up piece of felt under the back of the brown guide felt to help the feathers stand up. The peacock feather also had to be trimmed,so I used the left over feather for eyelashes, which seemed to work pretty well. The brown nose felt worked well for securing the beak to the mask. The beak was spray painted with gold and sparkles, which doesn't show up very well in the picture.
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