We took a vote to start our masks without drawing and sketching first - going straight to our plasticine. After a few minutes some of us realized that we don't actually like to work that way - returning to drawing to coax out an idea, while others started exploring and experimenting with the clay, taking photos of their work, then trying out new ideas.
We've decided to document our plastecine creations as we go--trying to remember some of our ideas that we leave behind as we re-work. We also agreed to all follow through with a final working form, a papier mache session, further construction-if we want, and paint/embelishment.
We discussed that our masks will be one-sided(we are not going to work on the inside) because we liked wearing them, and especially had a lot of fun finding out how expression and facial gestures are related and can, sometimes very simply, suggest emotion and character traits.
