Skull and a Fallen Friend

Progress on my new transformation mask, slowing a bit, but can see some progress on the hair, and the skull mask is now cut fully off it's base...

The transformation mask is being done in oak from the tree that came down on my van during Sandy, a red oak that stood in my parent's back yard longer than it has been my parent's back yard. I've often said that for quite a few years, outside of my brothers that tree was as close as I had to a childhood friend. I was struck by the contrast of the rot in the end of the main trunk (still sitting in my long suffering parent's yard) and the frozen crust of snow...