Living Statue Costume and Makeup
So, remember that living statue project I started like…almost a year ago? (Wow, time flies)
Living Statue Costume + Box
More work on creating a box to stand on. This time I started by cutting up a fenceboard and making a frame, then glueing some OSB sides on:
I bought the cheapest cupboard hinges I could find at Home Depot, and realized that I probably should have cut notches for them before I glued the sides [...]
Stuff
So I went and bought some OSB, which I’ll make my stagey boxey thing out of. I’m going to make a frame and then cut panels to attach:
I painted one coat onto the shirt and vest last night, and today I did another coat of black on em and started painting the pants. By the [...]
Costume
Working on a costume. I don’t have any great ideas, and I’ve been to every thrift store around in the past week without finding ANYTHING cool. :’(
So I decided experiment on an old cheap suit jacket. Here’s the finished coat:
And a work in progress pic. It took about 6 hours of total work.
Lazy
Lazy lazy lazy. Tsk tsk. I kept up with my little cartoon strip for awhile then got distracted by another project (as per usual).
I’ve been trying just about everything I can find to make a good living statue costume – for makeup I’ve tried Kryolan and Ben Nye, and for the actual costume I’ve tried [...]
Living Statue
So I’ve decided to be a living statue on the street. Mostly for fun, and any change I happen to collect.
I wrote this on a popping forum I go to, on the history of living statues. I wanted to post it here too:
It goes WAAAAY back. From what I’ve read, many hundreds of years ago [...]
