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For the last 2 years on Halloween “Myrtle’s House of Tetanus and Botulism” has served up some tasty vittles near the graveyard. After building her years ago she first lived on my porch and people could walk right up to her.

After that I decided she needed a better place to reside come Halloween. A few years ago we had a section of fence replaced along the alley out back. So now we had a bunch of spare wood. I like the image of a swamp witch living in a shanty, We didn’t make a plan, we hauled all the wood and junk to the front yard and made a shanty, now Myrtle had a place to make her tasty grub in that big old pot of hers.

This worked really well. People could see her but couldn’t walk up to her and see her “workings”. Mission accomplished. In fact it was so well designed, when we made it we intentionally made it look like it was falling over and each morning I would walk out to my car to go to work and think Oh CRAP! its gonna fall over into the picket fence what the hell happened to it last night.

Last year I wanted a place to put Mr. Lo Pan

I wanted him near a water type area. So I thought maybe we should add a dock to Myrtle’s place. We had some fencing left from the fence rebuild, So after we rebuilt the shanty (v2 of the shanty, we didn’t remember exactly how we built it before).

You cant see Mr Lo Pan in these pictures because he is at the end of the pier, about where the picture is taken from. I really liked it, it is a nice addition. For 2008 I think Myrtle might be on a vacation. I hear that a cemetery caretaker is looking for a residence and needs some wood and supplies to build a residence. We will see what happens.

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I finished the head this weekend. It is now fully painted. I might add some hair or a few items. But its mostly finished. Now to make the body and such.

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Last year I began making a gravedigger prop that I never finished. Part of the issue was he was too big. I based his head on a Boomer skull. I have started making a new head based on the old one I started last year. Here it is so far.

The new one in progress

Last years, Now a concept piece for me.

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I am finally gotten around to going thru a bunch of 2007 Halloween images. I have some nice pictures of Mr. Lo Pan. Here I have cut out some sections of a larger image so if you are curious you can see the detail. more detailed and textured than my other stuff and its hard to see unless you see him in person. The red lighting we used on him makes him more difficult to photograph as well. The pictures below here were taken on halloween night lit as they were in the display with par cans and gels, with a Digital SLR.

These next pictures were taken by me with a Canon A610 and a few colored floodlights for the hauntforum contest so I could turn in my entry for the contest. This isnt to show that Im a better photographer than my frient with the SLR, because I am not. Its simply to show that haunt lighting is very hard to photgraph in.

He is 95% Monster Mud, chicken wire, muslin, and cheese cloth. And a bit of urethane foam and mache and elmer’s glue. Oh and some air dry clay. …and lots of painting.

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I finished a new piece recently. I needed to make something. It had been a while and I had the itch to sculpt and paint. I had started this a week before Halloween and never finished it. It sat there on my sculpting stand for months staring at me. Meet Ed.

Ed is made of air dry clay, urethane foam, painted with acrylic paints and acrylic inks.

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