During our visit to San Diego in July my daughter, the art teacher personified, devised a summer project to create masks to hang on her garden wall. The idea was to paint a face on discarded ends of palm tree fronds. 
As a palm tree grows, the lower fronds die back, harden, and can be removed. It turns out they can make excellent bases for creative and artistic renderings of faces and masks.
My daughter enlisted every member of our extended San Diego family (except the baby) to take part in the project, with family members from age 10 to 84.
Here are two of my favorites, which are followed by a slide show of the others:
A well known Christmas show figure by my daughter
A fish by my granddaughter-in-law, perhaps looking for Nemo?
Click the arrows to move through the slide show:
It was a wonderful project to get us working together and see our creative juices bubbling. Which one is your favorite?
A Walk in the Garden 
Made me smile!
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Thanks, Cynthia. It was a fun time for all of us. Lots of smiles.
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The the masks are very cool. I need to look for some palm fronds.
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If you are near palm trees, there should be plenty of fronds. Thanks.
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I like them all; but in partial to the owl and elephant! Good Job, John and Company!Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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It’s looking like your choices are the winners.
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Very nice! Such colors and expressions!
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Thank you, Anne. Glad you enjoyed.
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How lovely! They are are all pretty ingenious, but I do rather like the elephant best. Which one was yours?
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The elephant is the work of my 10-year old granddaughter. The photo of mine didn’t work so, alas, you won’t get to see my masterpiece.
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Love them!
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Thanks.
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These are great! I think the owl is my favorite.
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Thanks, Jason. It was a fun exercise.
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I somehow missed this post back in September! You have a talented family with quite a few masterpieces. What a fun project to entertain the family with!
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Glad you were able to catch up to the post. It was indeed a fun time for all of us…particularly the young one who did the elephant.
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