HDH-169 Macabre Monday Holey Moley!

For the challenge this week at Haunted Design House you have to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en 
based art piece with more than one hole in it.

 

I was trying for a dragon egg but it didn't turn out well.  I had stamped the bottom layer with a Stampotique stamp then added another layer to be the holes but it never turned out. I think it looks more like something Freddy Krueger would lay lmao.

 

I used the technique I learned on one of the Andy Skinner courses (if you are interested there is a link in my sidebar called the Book of Ruination).

 

 

I just tore that off and started again and ended up with the egg below!

 

 

 

I am sure you guys can come up with better than this so get your thinking caps on.  Don't forget to go to Haunted Design House to check out the minions work.

 

Andrea C x

 

 

Papier Mache Dragon Head

My son got a letter home on the Wed after school saying they were having a party on the Monday at school with a Fairyland theme. My son stated that he was going as a dragon, eeek. Could we get a dragon costume, could we... So my only solution was to make him one. I got an old knight's helmet that he no longer used and papier mached over it, added some ping pong balls for the eyes. I used Anita's 3d gloss to make the eyes look shiny. I really only had about 5 or six hours to do the costume. I also made a tail and sewed it on to a green top, painted some cardboard wings and added a big fat dragon tummy to the top. I will add pics of that later, it didn't turn out too great but.



I told my son I was finished, he is 5 years old, don't you just love their honesty. He looked at me with some disdain hehe and said Mummy I asked for a dragon not a frog hahaha. I nearly had a fit laughing. I had made teeth spikes etc but didn't have time to do it as you probably know drying papier mache is a nightmare especially in this country hmm.