We are really bad at this house when it comes to starting to many things at one time. Jer has his projects & I have mine. He is working on PVC figures, the arch for the cemetery & painting some bottles for our spell & potion room so we can put labels on them. I made labels & I am gonna start putting those on our jars & bottles.
Tonight he made the pvc figure for my bride & figured out how to make these pvc figures so they are sitting down, we need 8 of those. He cut out a sign for me & his artist daughter is gonna paint a halloween sign on there.
I am also still working on those candy coffins, gonna have to pick up the speed on those. I still have the rocks to make for the spotlights outside. Epitaphs have to get on the tombstones.
Monday & Tuesday he made 3 skeleton cages. I guess we are pluggin along cause of the contest. Sure gets in the groove!!
And what is the downside here? I caught Jerry using my wood for fence panels for the extended cemetery to make strips that he can put down on the ground that already have the C9 lights mounted in them so he does not have to bend over to put the bulbs in the stakes. We run C-9's down the walk & driveway.
He got a new bench press & now he just wants to put holes in everything. To make matters worse when he brought this to show it to me guess what.......instead of it having our purple & orange lights for halloween in them>>>>>HE HAD XMAS LIGHTS!!!
What are the rest of you haunters building this week?
I'm currently working on tombstones and a Spooky Town landscape. But I just finished up flower arrangements, jack o lanterns, a zombie self-portrait, plans for my crypt, and the layout/design for the Victorian parlor.
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Brains for every single meal....why can't we have some guts?!
I am working on my swamp witch, A vampire, Tombstones, and wreaths... I still need to make a fence for my cemetery, More pvc figures for my other witches, I want to do a coffin or two...
Lets see I must have a Million or more projects I want to do , Depends on how much i get finished before Halloween.. LoL. I keep freaking out everytime I log on here and see how many days are left ...
This is the first year we are doing out and out projects. We're looking at starting soon, finally going to do an FCG and do some sort of thing to the Roomba. I saw on another thread about using the Roomba as a roaming spider and thought that was a great idea. Also going to do a fog chiller. We never really made much of anything ourselves because we usually get started too late, but this year we (mostly Brian) are making stuff. I'm going to make some sugar skulls next week, too.
Two rectangles of masonite, one about 2 inches wider than the other.
On the smaller piece, I apply gesso in a heavy stroke for texture, vertical lines, curves, squiggles, what have you.
Over that I paint a basic color that fades from a light hue to a dark, like orange, lavender, pale green, gray, etc.
Over that I paint a matte black silhouette, like a witch walking her cat up a hill, a distant mansion on a hill, a cemetery by night, owls in a tree, a scarecrow guarding pumpkins.
Sections of the silhouettes will be enhanced with bright yellow, like the mansion's windows, the owl's eyes, the face of the scarecrow, the lantern of the graverobber in the cemetery, that sort of thing.
The larger piece is edged with a few inches of the base color of the art, given crackle medium and then black, so I have a faux frame of black & orange crackle, or black & lavender, etc.
It's all glued together, the art on the crackle edged back, varnished and hung on the wall for seasonal art.
I don't have a digital camera, but if I can, I'll post them in the future.
Tonight, I finished my sound system ( 4 car stereos with computer power supply power), almost finished our first VSA routine for our 4 three-axis-skulls, and my wife is finishing up our 4th styrofoam tomb-stone.
We are getting a lot of things done...but we over planned and are still behind schedule.
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