Steve – Page 2 – An Unorthodox Halloween

Steve is sad, and a treat.

“Steve is sad, he needs a hug.”

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Steve 2 is coming along, albeit slowly. I tried to sculpt the head somewhat differently. Not entirely sure I’m sold on it yet. We’ll see after the skin gets on.

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But, I’ve been leaping for joy on another little item lately.

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Back when I was just a wee one, there was one particular house to always hit up on Halloween. The father in the house worked at Clover Club, and would hand out chip bags. FULL SIZE CHIP BAGS. Now, they were rejects from Clover Club. So, your sour cream and onion might house BBQ, or the plain ones might be considered too dark (“burnt”) for sale. But, that always just added to the fun of going to the house.

It’s been years since I’ve seen Clover Club in the stores. Thrilled to find them again. Now, if I could only lay my hands on some “burnt” ones….

Steve is terrifying.

The new steve is absolutely terrifying.

Behold the frigthened face.

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Absolute terror.

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FEAR THE STEVE!

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Back to Steve.

Time to get back to Steve.

We are rapidly coming up on the addition of hands, with the near-completion of Steve’s face.

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The teeth are UV paint dry brushed on top of an ebony oil base stain. Mutes the UV so it doesn’t light up like a bulb.

Going to be adding some of the paper towel/latex combo to the shoulders/arms this weekend, and then we’ll be getting to the hands.

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It suddenly struck me that you haven’t seen Steve under normal light. So, here he is without the blacklight magic:

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Steve: Paint trial 3

…And, I think we have a winner.

This is how the thing looks with the light at a decent distance

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The rest of these are up close, right under the light with some longer exposure on the camera, so the color is a bit off.

The legs and feet:

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Closeup of the face so far.

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A wider shot with the longer exposure.

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Get the face finished up, and we can add the hands and finish on the arms. Then once those are painted, I need to decide how we’re wrapping this guy up, and what will look good under the blacklight in that department.

Steve: Paint trial 2

We’re slowly circling in on a proper color for Steve.

Too much white this time. It looked PERFECT on the pallet, but once brushed on, the white overpowered.

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We’re much closer to the goal, however. Let this dry and one more trial, I think.