Meet Fred.
Last time you saw Fred, he was a regular ole bucky hangin out in the garage.
He needed some air, so I built him a nice little hanging stand of his own. Yes, it’s not straight or perfect, or square, but it’s effective.
Now, see, we wanted a…rather more…well…fresh skeleton. Bare bones are not only not frightening but silly to picture all still stuck together. And, so, as with the clothes rotting, I sought out the advice from Skull and Bone’s here.
Now, we’re not finished yet. Just having finished the whole panty hose thing. (Quite fun messin with the clerk while buying those) But, I have had quite a bit of experience back in the day with latex for makeup purposes, and if you were to ask me right now to do another, I’ld probably go back to my makeup roots and use tissue paper as opposed to the panty hose. We’ll see how it all looks after the stain and stuff.
So, here’s Fred, all skinned up.
Had a major accident during this. The whole top portion became unscrewed and Fred fell down. As a result, the head is not as good as it used to be. But, the rest wasn’t impacted.
I’m a little mixed on the look of the whole chest area. We’ll see how it stains, liking the pattern myself, though.
The back ended up getting a little more ‘skin’ than I planned, but it was needed to keep the rest of the stuff in check. No complaints there.
So, it’s been a nice diversion to get back to something akin to the old makeup job I used to do. One which I was fairly decent at. Even being sent home from work one day (that’ll teach em to ask me to come in costume) for an all together too realistic bullet hole in my forehead that the customers at Burger King were losing their apetite over for some reason. Ah…I don’t regret giving that up in favor of masks that the younger kids can be shown are just masks (easy on, easy off). But, it’s nice to find something to get that same feeling of creation and style of work back.
Probably won’t see any advancement on Fred this evening as we have a scout meeting. Maybe Wednsday.