Gourd Mask Drawing Guides

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Karen LoCasale and I'm here to tell you about gourd art. Making a gourd mask. So, we've got our gourd shape picked out, we've cut it in half and we have our piece. Now what we want to do is actually go in and actually draw our design on there. You got your eyes, got a mouthpiece here that we're gonna have, your actual design of the mask itself. At this stage we're just drawing it out and then what we'll do next is actually, with a wood burner, burn in these designs and that will give you a permanent marking in there that we can go back in later and color. For the mouthpiece here, I will actually use my drill and cut a hole there and then I will actually use some files and work on that hole to get it to fit my piece of bamboo, which I just use plain bamboo that you can get at the craft store, cut off a piece about an inch, inch and a half, it doesn't have to be real wide. And then, you're gonna keep trying that into your hole and filing that hole out as you need to to get that to, for a nice snug fit. Another thing you can do, is if you would like to have the eyes actually cut out versus coloring those in, you can do that at this stage as well. And actually use your drill, start your pilot hole and then actually go in there and cut those eyes out and have that as an option as well."