Well, it is Halloween so this is the thing…
Some papier-mâché thing with golden eyes
Last year the heads were made from a large ball and were fairly spherical in shape. This year I tried to make a more natural looking face. The first take on the face was that it looked like a Hindu god statue head of some sort. That wasn’t the look I wanted so I had to think of something else. At first I thought that I might make a Donald Trump head (you know, a life sized replica) but where would I get the hair?
But the head is more egg-shaped instead of round
The back of the head is just one large sphere cut in half. While the paper is still moist I pulled a string through the bottom third and squeezed the form into a head shape, i.e., not spherical.
With a baseball helmet as the base
Hey, it worked last year. This method keeps the mask squarely on your head. The brace struts are made from heavy cardboard and are bolted to the baseball helmet.
Back of the big head with a little head attached
This gives you an idea how ridiculously large this head is going to be. This is the fitting check to make sure the head hole is large enough so that the finished product can be worn without discomfort.
Now with arms
First it was going to be Donald Trump, then maybe a Hindu god. I thought that putting large ears on it would make it more Donald-like, but when I chose a dark paint at first for the skin color it started to look more Obama-like. So, changing the mouth a bit and adding some arms and hands, I now had The Scream ! Yippee! I think I’m done.
Then off to the show
Jeanne dressed as Edvard Munch and we made the rounds including the midnight organ concert at CSU. We were a big hit, The students at the Center for the Arts really liked the art based theme and the fact that it was a hand made costume.