Fort Collins, Colorado artist Justin Clements' work shows an acute understanding of light and a mastery of color. His brush work and knife technique add a beautiful impressionistic quality, making his paintings well received and eagerly sought after. About the mask: Justin says, "I have always admired the self portrait on the cover of David Leffel's book "An Artist Teaches" and I thought that it would be interesting to see how it looked recreated on a three dimensional mask. So I used his work as a study and painted this mask."