Howdy all you fabulous campers!....well it's october so halloween decorating is in full swing....or has been in full swing......also my 100 days of art is going well....actually doing it...yeah me!......especially when i can combine
halloween and my art.... so my daughter, the oldest twin, loves halloween.....and last year i had told her that she needs some sort of monster climbing over her fence because you can see it from far off.......so last year we had made some cardboard eyes and fingers....didn't have alot of time so it was a rush job......still looked cute.....but this year i said we needed to go bigger.....so after looking online at different chicken wire sculptures.....we made a chicken wire monster......with fingers too..........now what i wanted to do was have the monster climbing over the fence......but with only a total of around 7 hours....my ideas got scaled done abit........we got done what we could get done..... the start of the monster was us trying to figure out how big to make it......i had already painted 3 eyes for him....dollar tree has some big clear plastic serving bowls at the fabulous price of $1 each....gotta love dollar tree.....ya know in japan their dollar tree is called the 100 yen store.......great stuff there!.......so back to the eyes.....so i painted them like i painted my dino eyes, from the inside and they turned out great.......i'm trying to get the picture in the text for you to see.... i remember doing a post on chasing around the image as i tried to put it in the text....it's happening again.....arrrggghh....and now the text formatting has gone ca -flooee....that's the technical name for when your text goes crazy......i don't think it's happening today... anyway so here we are ....well there we were actually....but we were trying to figure out how to start the monster.....let me say making an armature before you start is way better than making after you have put alot of chicken wire in a shape and it's not holding it's shape......live and learn.......so after multiple starts and restarts and numerous people now helping hold the shape we get the head kind of done........the armature is now in and somewhat stable inside the monster....he's holding his own...yeah.....we secure the eyes in the monster.......get the first part of the nose done....i wanted him to be sort of a kilroy type monster.....ya know the nose hanging over the fence and the fingers gripping the fence........it was an old cartoon type character.....so we needed him to be propped up more or laying on his back to finish the nose......anyway.......so my daughter and i are getting to the tired part .......ya know the part where we are getting tired of each other......i have my idea....she has her idea......i gotta say that her way of attaching some chicken wire did work a little better than mine.....sometimes my vision is not as clear as it could be.....kind of a cloudy vision that works itself out through alot of trial and error.......and painful cuts and scratches ...because chicken wire is sharp.....who knew?? now my daughters' like, "what are we covering him with?".....hmmmm....my original idea was shower curtains or cheap plastic and then spray paint them.....but since we didn't have that with us and it's getting dark and we are trying to hold it together with our frustration of "it's not done yet???".....i say "how about cobwebs?...they should stick to chicken wire real easy!".......let me say that unless something is rough....cobwebs don't stick to it........but they do stick to anything and everything else....our gloves, bodies, hair, feet, tools, etc.....just not chicken wire......so let's cut the chicken wire in areas to attach it!!!......after many more painful cuts and scratches....that did not work much better.....then we thought how bout that gauzy fabric....like cheese cloth but cheaper.......we put that on first....but it didn't stick much better either.........then an idea hit us.....or that might have been the chicken wire.....but..... eureka.....spray glue!!!!!...... the fabulous properties of spray glue......you spray and it glues....wonderful......so now we have gauzy fabric glued to chicken wire with cobwebs glued to that and our hands and fingers glued to each other and cobwebs glued to our clothes and feet......but the monster looks great!!!!..... still need arms and legs....like i said we had to scale down.....so fingers it is.....well 3 fingers, cause we were kinda done and it was starting to rain..... the next day, it's really raining now and we finish 5 more fingers, attach noodles for hair.....pool noodles are the best...you can use them for anything.......so fun..........now with the help of my son-in-law and hubby we have to attach it to the fence....in the rain....and the wind.......no problem.....electric power tools in the rain....so much fun..... all i can say is...."hallelujah the monster is secured to the fence and looking fabulous".....the whole fence might fall over in a strong wind but the monster will stay attached to the fence!....... so the next time you want to make a monster for your fence ...i would say cardboard is such a great material to work with...not as painful.......and it's free!..............but ...making the monster made up 2 days of my 100 days of art....sweet!!!...be groovy yall !
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Betty White or MOM!!!
10/6/2020 06:08:00 pm
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!
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