Costume Crafts
Doctor Faustus
For the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2025 original practices production of Doctor Faustus I was given the opportunity to dive into some costume crafts projects. For this show my main crafts project was creating a snake mask for Envy played by Shunté Lofton. I also took on the smaller project of creating the horns for our three devils, Sofia Rodriguez, Aidan Biffinger, and Roan Cochrane.
Performance Photos by Jennifer Koskinen.
Envy's Snake Mask
The materials I used to make this mask are a blank mask base, aluminum foil, foam clay, hot glue, a mesh fabric, and acrylic paint. Below you can see the step by step process of creating this mask.
Devil Horns
The materials I used to make the devil horns for Aidan Biffinger, Sofia Rodriguez, and Roan Cochrane were black headbands, black foam sheets, hot glue, and red spray paint. I began by creating a cone shaped paper patter for the horns. When I was happy with the shape and size I traced the pattern onto the foam, cut out the pieces and glued each horn into shape. Once the glue dried I spray painted them red, but left the coat thin because I liked the little bit of black texture peaking through. Finally, once the paint had dried, I glued the horns onto the headbands.
