So now it’s the middle of October, the show is only a couple of weeks away and at my house we are trying to get ready for Halloween. Halloween is normally the biggest deal in the world to me, but because I was focusing on preparing the library show, I knew that I was not going to get to devote three months of my year to making an epic Halloween costume. Luckily, I’m a maskmaker, and I have about three dozen masks that I’ve never worn and that do not have costumes associated with them, so my Halloween compromise was to choose one of those masks and then put together an outfit to wear with it.

The mask I selected is an elephant mask, a three-dimensional version of one of those pink frosted circus animal cookies with the multicolored sugar sprinkles! In my downtime over the past two weeks, I had been creating some accessories - like a vest and gloves - that utilized the same motif of pink frosting and sugar sprinkles. Is it any wonder, then, that I decided (for a show that already has a lot of our Halloween costumes worked into it) that I had to paint just one more painting?