DEATH MASK

Death mask is a wax or a plaster made onto the persons face after their death. They are used to remember people or to help create portraits. In the 19th century death masks were used to identify the features of unknown dead bodies, which then helped them find out who they were.

'Inconnue de la Seine ("the unknown woman of the Seine") was a woman who's death mask became extremely popular after the 1900 which was sold in France and Germany and was so famous that people even hung it in their homes. The reason why her death mask was famous or even created in the first place was because of her beautiful smile which she still carried even when she was dead. She was said to be a peasant or even a bigger which was guessed through the hairstyle which she wore.

http://www.williamgaddis.org/recognitions/inconnue/

This is my own death mask. I focused on the shadows around the eyes as well as the shadows on the right side of her face. 

For the second death mask I went into more depth in creating the shadows and used black eyeshadow to create shadows.