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capri0mniTop 5 Samhain+ (aka Halloween) costumes I've dreamt up but have never actually worked out the logistics in order to pull off++:
#5: A bronze statue of a dragon-slaying knight (I once saw a craft show where the host demonstrated how to make faux bronze out of brown paper, white glue and candle smoke).
#4: A gryphon -- with black and gold plumage.
#3: A little green space man in a silver flying saucer
#2: A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow (The pot would be fit around my wheelchair, and I'd wear a sky blue sweatshirt with cotton batting stuck around my neck and wrist cuffs for clouds; I'd paint a vertical rainbow on my face with stage facepaint, and somehow make a hat in the shape of a giant rainbow arch. For candy, I'd give out little bags of chocolate coins, natch).
and (drumroll)
#1: Mother Goose and her gander (The body of the goose would be fit around my chair, and my legs would be done as goose legs, and I'd make the gander's head out of a foam ball and a length of vaccuum hose, so I could move it by the reins, as a puppet. I'd be dressed as MG from the waist up, with false human legs hanging from my waist, slipped just under the armrests of my chair to make it look like I'm astride the gander. If I can hook up with a couple of other people, to dress as bo peep, Little Boy Blue, the Fiddling Cat & Co., so much the better).
+In the Neo-Pagan calendar, at least, Samhain is considered the new year in the cosmic sense, so a couple of these are what I would wear to symbolise my hopes for the coming year. Can you guess which ones? ... not really a challenge, I am so obvious!
++If you can figure out how to adapt any of these for your own use, please feel free!
#5: A bronze statue of a dragon-slaying knight (I once saw a craft show where the host demonstrated how to make faux bronze out of brown paper, white glue and candle smoke).
#4: A gryphon -- with black and gold plumage.
#3: A little green space man in a silver flying saucer
#2: A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow (The pot would be fit around my wheelchair, and I'd wear a sky blue sweatshirt with cotton batting stuck around my neck and wrist cuffs for clouds; I'd paint a vertical rainbow on my face with stage facepaint, and somehow make a hat in the shape of a giant rainbow arch. For candy, I'd give out little bags of chocolate coins, natch).
and (drumroll)
#1: Mother Goose and her gander (The body of the goose would be fit around my chair, and my legs would be done as goose legs, and I'd make the gander's head out of a foam ball and a length of vaccuum hose, so I could move it by the reins, as a puppet. I'd be dressed as MG from the waist up, with false human legs hanging from my waist, slipped just under the armrests of my chair to make it look like I'm astride the gander. If I can hook up with a couple of other people, to dress as bo peep, Little Boy Blue, the Fiddling Cat & Co., so much the better).
+In the Neo-Pagan calendar, at least, Samhain is considered the new year in the cosmic sense, so a couple of these are what I would wear to symbolise my hopes for the coming year. Can you guess which ones? ... not really a challenge, I am so obvious!
++If you can figure out how to adapt any of these for your own use, please feel free!
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Date: 2004-09-23 08:20 pm (UTC)These are awesome ideas and, with the right amount of planning, could be pulled off top-notch :)
How does one make faux-bronze with paper bags, white glue and candle smoke? oO;
Faux Bronze, etc.
Date: 2004-09-23 08:56 pm (UTC)Well, this was years ago, so I'm not sure I remember correctly, but this is what I do remember:
Take your brown paper bags (or brown craft paper), and glue two layers together, so there are no loose edges.
(In this case, the host was making oak and maple leave shapes, and put floral wire between the two layers of paper, for the stems, which could then be wrapped around candlesticks).
Cut out two the shape you want (the host may have cut out the shapes before she glued -- probably, that's what she did).
Coat the shapes liberally with white glue like elmer's [tm], and let dry until clear and shiny.
Hold the shapes over an inch or two over the candle flames, so that the heat and soot turns the layer of glue black -- like the tarnish/patina on bronze.
I was very impressed, when I saw it on tv... really did look like bronze sculpture. I figured you could do that piece by piece with knight's armor (chest plate, shoulder guard, etc.), and then paint the face with a mixture of bronze and black paint -- black where the rain would normally hit a statue outside...
These are awesome ideas and, with the right amount of planning, could be pulled off top-notch :)
Thank you :-). But it would take more than planning -- mainly one or two (or three) extra pair of hands to help me cut, hold, pinch, and staple to get everything to fit right, and not look like crumpled trash...
Also, someone who can drive, to give me a ride to the craft/hardware store for supplies.