The Pope is a smallish prop as most of my pieces are now. He is a fiendish little man who pulls a wagon about the graveyard picking up spare parts and toting them about. He warns visitors not to venture to far into the graveyard with his small outstretched palm.
His head is sculpted from air dry clay, mache, painted in acrylics, his robes are monster mud.
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Over the past few years The Trees have always been a popular item in my display. I made the trees after being inspired by an image from the Hallowed Haunting Grounds (which is no more). The first tree, was an entry in a contest at Hauntforum.com . He is affectionately called “stumpy” by a few folks on the forum.
I have striven to really focus on a soul being trapped inside the tree as I made them. With the 1st tree it was anguish, the second tree is was almost a stoic angst.
The idea of the trees comes from Canto 13 of Dante’s Inferno “The Wood of the Suicide’s”
“Still in the seventh circle, Dante enters its second compartment, which contains both those who have done violence on their own persons and those who have violently consumed their goods; the first changed into rough and knotted trees whereon the harpies build their nests, the latter chased and turn by black female mastiffs. Among the former, Piero delle Vigne is one who tells him the cause of his having committed suicide, and moreover in what manner the souls are transformed into those trunks.”
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For a contest at Hauntforum.com the goal was to use Monster Mud as the main component. I wanted to take it a bit further than the normal grim reaper type Monster Mud prop and really wanted to get a lot of flowing folds into the fabric of the prop. I settled on a seated figure on a stack of crates. Instead of burlap which is used as the typical Monster Mud medium I used muslin. I also wrapped his body in bandages for an added texture and spent a lot of time painting him with multiple washes of color to bring out the depth of the folds. I was very pleased with the results.
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For a contest at Hauntforum.com I decided to make a twisted broken larger than normal doll. Dolly was born from a restless sleep one night. Her head is carved from a Styrofoam wighead, coated with Sculpt or Coat. She is painted with acrylics, and her dress is dirtied with SOC mixed with dirt. Her crutch is made from copper wire, grapevines, and random ACC bones. She is one of my favorite pieces.
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A Mummified head unearthed near Damascus (according to a note found with it). It was discovered behind a cupboard in Perth in 1877 it was wrapped in horse hide also in the package was a small copper hammer, a cross made from obsidian and what looked like a piece of very old wood that smelled of sulphur.
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