Daughter of Darkness Scarecrow Entry

[Daughter of Darkness]

76" tall and 2" x 2" wooden branch bottom
Bought everything but paint/urethane at dollar store.
Cost:
3 double rolls paper towel- $ 3.00
1 roll jute twine-$1.00
3 bottles elmer's glue-$3.00
1 box precut tinfoil-$1.00
3 rolls duct tape-$3.00
Twigs,branches and grape vines-Free!
Misc. paint and polyurethane-$14.00
Total-$25.00

I have the poem that was my inspiration on my makeshift webpage if you wanna read it.
http://hometown.aol.com/butcherbaby70/myhomepage/halloween.html

Pics:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0712-1.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0710.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0739.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/scrow-1.jpg



http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/scrow2.jpg

[ScareFX]

Nice entry Daughter of Darkness!. Good pic with the corn.

[DeadSpider]

Creepy! Love his 'legs'. Great Job!

[TearyThunder]

I agree with DS, very creepy! Great job!

[heresjohnny]

Very nice!

[krough]

Really Nice work DOD

[Dr Morbius]

Great work!

[Fangs]

WoW!!! Nice pic of your scarecrow in the corn!!!! :> Great job... :>

[Eric Striffler]

Excellent!!

[morgan8586]

Great job-glad you entered.....

[spokanejoe]

Wonderful SC. And you really have a corn field! sweet!

[kevin242]

I like this one a lot, great expression of pain and suffering. It seems like you should have posted a few more shots though...

[scareme]

Creepy!! Do you have any pics on the construction? I'd love to see how you made it?

[Dr Morbius]

Yes, I am curious about that too..how was the head made?

[Daughter of Darkness]

Hey thanks you guys for the kind words. I have a few pics of some of the making of it but havent had any time to upload them to the computer. The head and body are modified duct tape doubles of a few of my skeleton props. Them paper towel mache over that and about five coats of drybrush. For the head I basically modified the shape and facial expression of it -the jaw and the rest of the head were two pieces so I could change the look. The teeth are actually made from dried grape vine knuckles(the part of the vine that bends at an angle) Top of the head is actually open. I had put roots in it but it looked very "witch dr/voodoo" to me, which I didn't really want. So I took it out and left it empty for now.

The corn patch is down the street from my house! One side is nice,live corn and the other side looks like that. One of the advantages of living in Manteca. Here are a couple more shots in the park we went to after the corn patch. :jol:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0723-1.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0752.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0728.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0724.jpg

[Daughter of Darkness]

Ok, since you guys are interested I managed to get the pics on here of the beginning part of the making. And my mom did the pics(she's a photog) so I cant take credit for the groovy pics!

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0681.jpg


http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/CuriousGoods/100_0680.jpg

[Dr Morbius]

Whoa! Is there no end to the things one can do with duct tape? Very creative..I am going to have to try that. Sounds like duct tape holds shape pretty well.

[Daughter of Darkness]

Yeah, Dr Morbius. I personally love Duct tape. It has Many other uses in addition to haunting ;)

It holds shape pretty well. The ribcage didn't take at all so I had to do the detail work with the mache. Gawd, I can't even remember how many coats of mache I used. But it was ALOT. I was gonna do a tutorial but didn't get the middle pics and got lazy. My fav part is the neck,the muscles. It has a pallet(mouth) also but you can't see much of it in the pics. Had to put that- I used to be a dental tech! :devil:

[Dreadnight]

Daughter - The Druids themselves would be proud of that one. Nice work!

[edwood saucer]

Some of you guys are really demented... this is good.

This looks probably a lot like what a body would look like if it were subject to exposure. That's creepy.

very cool.

[Lilly]

good job DOD like the corn bit

[morgan8586]

The more I look at your SCrow DOD, the more I like it! Still trying to decide how to vote, but your entry is sure to get a vote from me.

[Daughter of Darkness]

Aw, thanks Morgan :)

[PrettyGhoul]

Daughter of Darkness your Scarecrow is wonderful and I love the picture of the Scarecrow in the cornfield!!

[Daughter of Darkness]

Thanks PrettyGhoul! :devil: