Yesterday I came home after a miserable day at work and saw Liz Ohanesian’s article about the new X Japan video, which had a picture of the werewolf that I helped make - I hadn’t seen it since it was finished and it turned out great!!! IMMD :)
Photo by Shannon Cottrell
In only 3 days, Ralis and a small team made the actual mold, skin, teeth, eyes, and other details, I put the fur on him, another girl cut and styled the fur, and then Ralis put on the finishing touches. I can’t wait to see the video!
::KtB::
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This weekend I worked on a pizza skirt for [tlr]’s project NVR-NDR! Here’s the concept art:
The actual skirt will be vegetarian though ::
delicious pizza toppings...
the beginnings of a pizza skirt, notice the plump crust
I buy stuffed animals at thrift stores to recycle their fur and stuffing...this raccoon already had disgusting, recycled stuffing! bonus :)
::KtB::
Tags: nvr-ndr, pizza, pizza skirt, tlr
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I made a costume for Emily of My Velcroe, for the Halloween show at HM157. It was actually really miraculous - I made it in only 3 days, with all recycled fabrics, and only one fitting the night before the show! This was the first time I had made high-waisted shorts, and I’m quite pleased with the results ::
Emily dancing with her Bear
She wanted a 1920’s-esque bathing suit and a jacket with a detachable cape. The cape was already removed by the time I got my camera on the right setting :( I had the striped fabric left over from the Absinthe Faerie show I helped do costumes on. Emily found the fabric for her jacket at a thrift store, it’s a really intricate knit of a bubbly pastel jungle. The jacket is lined with pinstripe fabric that was going to be thrown away at my work. One person’s trash, sucka!
I think she had killed the Bear at this point in the show
Oh yeah, her shirt has a bow tie too! And tails in the back :) So cute!
::KtB::
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I did a few rush costumes for a sizzler Matt Bab was making to fund the actual movie. Several occultist robes, some monk robes, and a sacrificial robe. I think it was 11 robes total, done in about a week. Luckily I had a random home-sewing pattern (I hate those) for Star Wars costumes, which included robes that were similar enough to what Matt wanted that I only had to make a few alterations to and reduce the fabric yield a bit.
Monk Robes :: I used black hair spray to age them ever so slightly
Back of the monk robe, acually worn by tlr
Hood of the occultist robes/cloaks
::KtB::
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I helped with the costumes for the absinthe faerie skits in the “I See London, I See France” show at the Hive gallery in downtown Los Angeles. The costumes consisted of custom skirts and tons of flowers made of fabric and buttons, various corsets, and wings that Jaymie and Ariana made. Makeup was done by RoMak, and photos of course were by Marianne Williams :)
Marianne and Jaymie
Juliet
Alexandra
Jaymie Valentine
Jaymie and KtB
Being an absinthe faerie is pretty fun :) I wish I took out my nose ring though!
::KtB::
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These costumes were designed by Joe Holliday for the cult film Sounds of Silence:
Joe's Concept Art :: Octavius
I was in charge of making the red velvet jacket. I made the pattern based on a 19th century jacket where the side seams are actually the darts in the back. Distressed it using black fabric paint, coffee grounds, and hot glue, and silver sharpey to age the gold buttons. I also used a sharp knife to shred the bottom, and to add a few holes to the body. The insignia are all just hot-glue-gun glue, and painted over with fabric paint. All the bones are real, courtesy of Joe :) He also supplied the real monkey fur which lines the neck behind the stand-up collar. Photos by Flip Cassidy.
Joe's Concept Art :: Delisa
For Delisa’s costume I was assigned the pleather bib. I used cover-your-own-buttons so I could use the pleather for those too.
Joe's Concept Art :: Red Clown
I did the collar for this guy. It was a lot of work, but soo cool! I made it out of thick sew-in interfacing, folded and ironed every inch or so to get the accordion shape. Then i glued it onto a strip of interfacing for the neck, which was lined w/ black (synthetic) fur for comfort, with ribbons to tie it. I aged it with tea, fabric paint, and some splatters of red and yellow (diluted) fabric paint, then went to town on it w/ a serrated knife, scraping all the texture into it :)
Oh, I also did a few simple cloaks:
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