Klingon Christmas Carol Update

Started pouring latex for the 14 heads I need to make

I have poured latex for 7 heads, they will need 2 coats, and I have almost run out of latex. I will get more latex soon and will post more pictures.

Klingon Christmas Carol 2010!

Well, this year makes an expansion of the play I love and have worked so much on. It is adding a Chicago production! Already cast, I am going to make 14 Klingon Heads for it, from my existing molds…. Yes I have at least 14 different Klingon ridge patterns. I am gonna need a lot of Latex! Process pictures will follow.

OK that was interesting!

Well, I got contacted last week to do makeup for a 48 hour film project. I said yes, even though it was a bit out of my comfort zone. I like to work with a person I am making up, usually trying the makeup out twice before the final unveil, and also giving each one some serious thought. This one, I had never met any of the actors, hadn’t read the script and had to be good and subtle on a moments notice! Well the good folks at respectthething.com were happy with my work, and seeing the finished product I was too. The makeup wasn’t noticeable, except when it was supposed to be, then it just made the character look strange and menacing. I will post a link when I have one to the finished film

Progess report

Well I haven’t posted for awhile. so here is a post. My plans this summer includes Convergence http://www.convergence-con.org
and a monster road trip to DragonCon http://www.dragoncon.org
Also I am finally getting some nibbles for my prosthetic work, http://www.illusionstudio.info
I feel like I am actually producing good stuff and want to get some commissions. I am planning an amazing makeup for DragonCon and will sneak preview it here, after all this is about as private as can be. More to come soon!

A D-Day entry

Plagiarizing and paraphrasing Lincoln, We can not hallow these grounds, the beaches of Normandy, any more than the young men from many nations already have, but seeing this today, I feel that we need to read these words, many of us have never read the second, third and fourth verses.

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Final Skeletor Picks

These are the final pictures I am taking before handing this over to Earl

Skeletor II

No pictures this time, all I had was my cruddy cell phone. I prepped the sculpt – seen below – and covered the exposed edges with a release agent, and poured plaster. It took 3 or 4 layers to get it covered sufficiently and I learned something. When doing a full face piece, I need to build in a some way to get the piece out easier. It took some real labor to get the sculpt out of the plaster mold. I may have rushed it a little. But it’s ok. I filled some air holes and cracks and poured my first coat of latex, this will take at least 3 coats to build up correctly. More pictures with the next post

Skeletor!

I am building a mask of Skeletor for Earl, These pictures look a little squashed in my browser, the proportions are correct in Real Life

This is the front view of the clay sculpt

Showing the cheek bone and nasal area

A shot of the forehead and orbital bone

I will have more progress pictures as it develops!

What is this about?

There will be musings. I have a plentitude of interests. Christian philosophy, Sci Fi, Klingon fandom, Minnesota sports. There may be a dose of my right of center libertarian conservatism as well, but there is a lot of that out there already.