In the summer of 2006, my friend Melissa went to Venice and brought me back a white plaster cat face mask. This was long before I’d realized my inner raccoon, and I’ve always been a cat lover. The mask hung on my wall for just under ten years, and then I moved around a bit so it got put away for safe keeping. Fast forward to September 2016 when I pulled the mask out, primed it with white Rustoleum and promptly set about stressing myself out that I was going to ruin it a decade after it was gifted to me. I think I did a pretty good job, but I could have done better. I wore it for a vintage themed Halloween party and you can see me wearing it here on my Instagram.

Estimated time to create from sketches to final gloss: 8 hours?

You can find out more about the process of making this mask here where I documented it.