I'm getting closer, but I am afraid that I won't finish Goliath in time! I scored a day off today, and worked on Goliath for most of the day so far. I have 2 fans on him right now trying to aid in the drying time. Once he's fully dry, I can sand him down some and get his head and hair done. I'll probably get his loin cloth done today too. I am getting ready to start on the wings now, but here is the progress so far:
There are only 10 days left until Halloween. Gotta admit, I'm feeling the time crunch now. Goliath is no where near complete, Bird Girl still needs to be painted, and this whole "work" thing is getting in my way!! I did take Sunday off from projects to work in the front yard trimming trees and bushes and stuff, getting it ready for the cemetery to go up next weekend.
I finally got started using the paper clay on Goliath now. I covered his legs, giving him better shape and smoothing out the strips over the duct tape. It'll take a couple of days to dry thoroughly, even though I tried not to make it too thick. I had to make a new page for the progress of this project as the first page is getting really long and I don't want the pages to take forever to load. The link to the second page is on the bottom of Page 1. :-)
If y'all wanna learn how to do some cool stuff, check out Allen Hopps over at Stiltbeast Studios on their Youtube channel! Good stuff, and entertaining! He's got some great videos on how to make cool Halloween props very simply and VERY cost-effectively. Check it out!
Worked on getting that important base layer of strip mache on top of most of the duct tape. Now I can see better what I'm working with and my future mache clay has something better to stick to. Good times!
Got a lot of the "fleshing out" part done, and he has a head now!
Follow the progress here:
http://theghostess.com/goliathV2.htm
