So on Wednesday I learnt I got free tickets to the Boys and Girls Club Formal Masquerade. I immediately decided no store-bought mask would be good enough for me, I would make my own. With two and a half days to figure out, build and hopefully not screw up my mask the quest was on! First of all Denise and I visited the local Halloween store. She bought a cute little cat mask and I bought a V for Vendetta mask to use as the base for my mask. I then purchased some pre-made paper-mache stuff. I already had some wire to work on it with. Here is the setup:
Yes thats right, Winston was supervising. I had originally wanted to make a skull with actual teeth on it, and had I more time I'm sure I could've done that but I went with the old standby - a horny devil!
Ok so what happened was that I originally had two full horns built but while applying the paper-mache the second horn got unstuck and was already covered in paper-mache. By this time this stuff was all over the place so I decided to just toss the second horn and make a 'broken' horn. This was inspired by 'broken tusk' from the Aliens Vs Predator comic. Again time intervened as I would have loved to have made this smoother but had to stick with the lump looks. Friday night came and so I had to paint it!
I went with metallic red with a dry brush of metallic gold. I added some 'mystic' symbols (oooohhhhhhh) and painted the horns ivory. So here is the final product on me:
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The topmost picture is awesome. I think it would have been hilarious to try to make Winston wear the mask.
ReplyDeleteA horny devil.Why did we not see it coming?
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