New oil paintings, for an Art Party at the Cre8ery this Saturday.
Inspired by several dreams, of a procession of creepy blonde girls with pink pope-like hats. The mounted animal heads are a theme carried over from a larger painting I’ve been working on.
I can’t stay away from the costumes. I think I need another reason besides Halloween to do this stuff. So on the weekend, one of my friends was talking about the movie Death Becomes Her, and we all agreed that it’s a great flick. I started thinking about the crazy scene where Meryl Streep blasts a hole in Goldie Hawn with a shotgun. I thought that this would be a great challenge! I want to make this:
This project will combine my love of gruesomeness and nerdy video stuff. I have to order stuff equipment on ebay, to start testing. This should be a really interesting project to make. I’m going to keep my lips sealed on my plans until I can actually start working on it. yea project!
I had forgotten to mention that I wrote a full How- To on my Kali costume on the Instructables site.
Kali Instructable link
There are some interesting comments in the thread. Some very polarizing opinions. I suppose a little controversy is always good, at least it gets people talking.
I’m not too sure what I’m going to do with my time now. I’ve been thinking about doing some straight up canvases, I think it may be time to switch it up a bit.
Wow! I’m so flattered, these awesome people took the time to send me photos of their own Marie Antoinette costumes! I’m really impressed with how these turned out, Congratulations! It’s like a cult or something!
I love this one! Sexy nips! Awesome job - Megan Kolodziej.
Brianne Messer - did a killer job working with the flex foam. She sent me her progress photos and I was super impressed by the cleanliness of her working space. I could learn from her!
Cathy Petch from Washington DC - won scariest costume category at their event!
Laura & Joe Harak from Reading PA took home first prize for their costumes!
Here’s a new one! Shea Brislin from Atlanta, GA - said she made it with paper mache over different pieces of floral foam. Very crafty!
J. Karen Parker from beautiful British Columbia made hers with paper-mache. She was the big winner of a trip to Vegas and $250! Congrats!
Amy King from Austin, Texas also used floral Styrofoam and papier mache. So that’ s a great alternative to making it! Love the cubicle!
If anyone else wants to send me photos of their headless costumes I’d love to post them all.
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Here is my completed Kali costume. As the goddess of death and destruction, I lived up to her name by causing spillage and poking people in their eyes. I like that one of the flickr comments is that type of behaviour “is so Kali”.
I pretty much destroyed the costume in the process of wearing it. The arms were too temping and everyone wanted to grab them and move them around. They were built to sustain a good deal of abuse, but my friend finally finished one of them off at the end of the night. The nice part was that I could remove the bottom injured set and continue wearing the top set separately. I’m really glad I spent the extra time to make the arms removable. It’s too bad you can’t see my shoes in this photo - they were awesome! Some people thought I was Shiva, Ganesh and Medusa, but quite a few people totally recognized I was Kali. More photos on my flickr site.
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Photo credit: Nik Thavisone
www.nikthavisone.com
Buy this costume for Halloween 2008!
Here is the Alien chestburster costume Andy made. It’s so awesome, but he gave it to his brother so he could be a krumper this year with the boys. He carved this from blue foam, and painted it with acrylic paint. If you’re not familiar with what this costume is, then you should watch this video and get a clue yo!
This costume is so crazy. What was I thinking? All the parts are fabricated, but it’s turning into a big job to put them together. I’m going with the blue shoes by the way.
I will have to come back and add more step by step photos after I’m finished. I’ve been working on attaching the arms to the costume so that they are secure, movable and removable. This involved a whole lot of velcro and elastic. That part I’m good with. I’ve been unhappy with the colour of fabric I was using for the body suit, so I changed it with a couple of light dustings of spray paint to make it more of a grey-blue than a blue-blue.
Tonight I’m making the hands for the arms, attaching the various accessories and finishing the arm-skirt. After that, I can relax and bling it out with lots of gold and jazz.
This is the severed demon head to be held in one of the arms. I’ve actually added a tonge and hairy eyebrows. I just need to add some ears and earings. He will have a spinal column and a trail of bloody crap that will hang down into a bowl held by the lower hand
I’ve got the main outfit sewn up, and started in on the belt of severed arms. I’ve also got all of the arms jointed at the elbow. I need to hinge them on the back and work on getting the full range of mobility. I’m still pretty sure it’s going to work. It makes sense in my head anyhow. So, I should be posting with much more frequency, cause I’m on a role.
Not too sure what’s going on with the soul-collector. It could be really awesome, but I don’t think anyone wants to wear it. It’s on the backburner now.
so yeah…
For some reason I don’t think so. Maybe it’s catching on, but I’m pretty sure Halloween is a North American thing. I don’t think Europeans understand why some of us put the kind of effort into out costumes and decorations and parties that we do. Which is why I don’t understand why my site is getting absolutely killed by a Hungarian site right now (http://www.ize.hu) I guess they just think the costume looks cool.
But they must think it’s pretty lame to spend time, effort and money on a silly night that doesn’t seem to serve a purpose.
Though, I guess that’s why I like Halloween, because it is purposeless. It’s a chance to be creative and funny and get to drunk and rowdy.
Maybe they’re missing out?
That’s all folks! If you missed out getting a costume for Halloween 08, check back as more costumes will come as I find the time.
-updated October 19 08
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-updated Sept 30 2008
Good luck! Happy Halloween!
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Love Bone is artist Nicole Magne from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. This site is a combination of art, randomness and Halloween costumes.
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