Good morning, all - I've been a lurker for some time, absorbing the knowledge of the fine people here on the RPF without saying much, so I think it's time I posted something I'm actually working on.
I needed a quick and relatively inexpensive costume for Halloween this year, and decided that in honour of the release of the final Christopher Nolan Batman picture, I should do one of my favourite villains: The Scarecrow.
I will be blending two incarnations of Dr. Crane - for the costume, I will be spending no money at all by wearing a simple suit a'la Cillian Murphy. For the mask, however, I will be taking my inspiration from the vastly more creepy Arkham Asylum video game.
The piece will be in two parts - a mask and a separate hood. The mask I've been working on has a cheap, Halloween hockey mask as its foundation. To that, I've epoxied an inexpensive painting respirator that's been spray painted. Several layers of carved upholstery foam, cotton fabric mache (so no blindlingly white plastic shows through), burlap, paint, and jute twine later - this is what we have:
Apologies for the quality of the pic - I took it with my mobile phone.
Thanks to the RPF community, particularly Kommisar, whose AA Scarecrow thread provided a lot of inspiration for this project.
I needed a quick and relatively inexpensive costume for Halloween this year, and decided that in honour of the release of the final Christopher Nolan Batman picture, I should do one of my favourite villains: The Scarecrow.
I will be blending two incarnations of Dr. Crane - for the costume, I will be spending no money at all by wearing a simple suit a'la Cillian Murphy. For the mask, however, I will be taking my inspiration from the vastly more creepy Arkham Asylum video game.
The piece will be in two parts - a mask and a separate hood. The mask I've been working on has a cheap, Halloween hockey mask as its foundation. To that, I've epoxied an inexpensive painting respirator that's been spray painted. Several layers of carved upholstery foam, cotton fabric mache (so no blindlingly white plastic shows through), burlap, paint, and jute twine later - this is what we have:
Apologies for the quality of the pic - I took it with my mobile phone.
Thanks to the RPF community, particularly Kommisar, whose AA Scarecrow thread provided a lot of inspiration for this project.
