Category: costume

  • 8 of 100 days of art making

    8 of 100 days of art making

    How to make the sandwich pictured below. The best sandwich starts with 10 slices of toasted whole wheat bread. Lay them out like a game of solitaire. Each slice will need a dollop of mayonnaise, a pinch of Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Now add two crispy bacon strips to each slice. Depending […]

  • Making cardboard kukeri inspired costume for Halloween!

    Making homemade costumes with the kids and found inspiration to make a cardboard kukeri suit.

  • What makes a monster.

    Monsters, what makes them frightening.

  • Bear Head Is On The Move

    Bear Head Is On The Move

    This weekend update: I packed up the minivan with tons of painting supplies, lots of cardboard, glue guns, and two kids and headed to Sis and Moons to start an large installation (still in progress). The kids Helped me unpack boxes of paint and odds and ends, in the process earned some choice pieces of cardboard, and […]

  • Bear head turns into Bear suit.

    Bear head turns into Bear suit.

    The day has come, halloween is here, and all this work is worth it. Gio has his afro cardboard frankenstein, Oscar is rocking a full cardboard Pokemon Charizard, Damien is welding a pair of custom cardboard katanas, and Alex is suited up as a cardboard bear. This is a shot of the Bear at work, before […]

  • Bear Head

    Bear Head

    Pushing hard towards halloween, flowing with Cardboard and Hot Glue, here is a picture of the Bear Head. You can check out earlier pics here. I’m happy with the head, I will be starting the suit next. Worried about the paint job, cardboard nude or custom paintjob? After halloween I will get back to the Clem […]

  • Card board dog head needs a better name than ‘Dog Head’. Help!

    Card board dog head needs a better name than ‘Dog Head’. Help!

    Looking for a name. I am called “Dog Head” but I don’t think that is right. please help.

  • 4 New masks before Halloween… a cardboard challenge.

    Update: Dog Head is Done… Final paint job and some minor fabrications to the base, it is now wall mountable. Below is a picture from the Back of Sis and Moon’s gallery, with Rachel Graham and Wendy Vogt, the dog head is almost done. The second Mask is done… meet the Sugar Skull. Here is […]

  • New lighting in the studio

    My space is a bit dark, so I have added some lights. I think I need to put a spot lights on the masks, maybe a blinking light. Today is “Lunch Truck Thursday” I hope someone takes home the Thunder Lizard. If not I’m going to send it to the Hive in LA, see what […]