After the first painting with unbleached titanium, next came a wash with a mixture of watered-down burnt sienna, raw sienna, and Mars black. This involves applying a fair amount of the watered paint and then blotting with a damp paper towel. In the SKS video, this looked sort of snotty green, but for us it…
The first of four rounds of painting on the skulls was with liquitex Unbleached Titanium paint. First a wash with a fair amount of water plus the paint, which left the dark red skulls looking like they’d been dug out of a dusty pit. Then after that dried, drybrushing with scant amounts of the same…
We’re working directly from the SKS Props tutorial here. I took the masks to work, where I have access to a genuine paint spray hood in the machine shop. First was two coats of black PlastiDip spray. I was concerned that the plastic might obscure all the texturing work we’d done on the foam, but…
This next step was in two stages: Adding Texture to the foam “bone” This step was actually fairly fast and easy. You take a wire brush, and tap/slap it firmly against the foam surfaces, so the bristles pockmark it and create “pores”.Again, Andy and I each worked on one skull; we used 3 different brushes….
The next step was to take a (fraction of a) bucket of foam clay to fillet the seams and add more organic shape to the already sanded skulls. We were going back and forth a lot to SKS Props YouTube video.Andy and I continued to work on one skull each so it will acquire some…
The next step was to do more shaping on the main pieces of the skull with the Dremel. We got a bunch more sanding and shaping heads, and Andy and I each took one of the masks and worked on it for ourselves. This let us each give our own mask a bit of personalized…
Richard got a great series of photos of my performance, including the wall of streamers. To cap it off, Christine Doyle captured this non-embarassing recording of my performance. You can tell I’m having fun and so is the audience (though you can’t hear them singing along; well over a quarter of the room joined in)….
I realized the little pink shorts (To which I’d applied the cutie marks), even with the extra ease added by the hook-and-eye closure, and even if closed at the original position, had a poorly installed zipper in the fly and it was never going to lie well.I had a roll of plastic web rhinestone belting/trim,…
Just a few snaps from the audience from my performance of “Pink Pony Club” in my Pinky-Pie inspired wardrobe.I’m hoping for some with better white balance in the near future. My friend Christine also recorded a video, but I haven’t processed and uploaded it yet.
Over the weekend I got almost all the main assembly done for both skulls (there’s one final piece that extends off the back of the mask) and did an initial pass at shaping all those square foam edges with a tapered grinding stone on my Dremel mototool. (the regular kind of Dremel, not the coping…
