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My scarecrow is a tribute the 3 scarecrows created by John over at Pumpkinrot. Legs inspired by Roots. Body inspired by Johnny Appleseed. Head based on Pumpkinrot.
| Piece of scrape plywood and an old piece of 2x4 that had been sitting around outside. 2 inch drywall screws (I will be painting later to protect the screws) hold the post. Drill a bunch of random holes in the plywood (small bit that will let the drywall screws with a little effort). The pot will be transformed into the pumpkin head latter. |
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| cut off pieces of grape vine and attach by screwing up through the base into the vine with the 2" screws. I just kinda held vine pieces up at different places until it looked cool, the I would use clippers to trim the vine so the end would rest flush against the plywood. A little bailing wire to hold things together at the top. |
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| Here is the base with the 'legs' finished. Thank you Roots at Pumpkinrot. |
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| Adding the ribs, for some reason this makes me think of Johnny Appleseed. Putrid over at the Halloween Forum has also mentioned using ribs in a pumpkinrot scarecrow (good idea!) |
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| More progress. Need to finish the paper mache', paint and distress. |
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| Snot rag paper mache is done on the head (I think). I think it looks more like a mummy affect than anything. I used 1 part elmers glue, 1 part water and 2 parts corn starch for the mache, (thanks putrid). |
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| Here the head is painted. I call this the accident painting technique, because I have no idea what I'm doing and it turned out looking okay. I painted it cheap pumpkin orange from Wal-Mart, then mixed a little cheap Wal-Mart brown with the orange and highlighted some spots, finally dry brushed with the brown. |
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| I cut a piece of plywood to match the opening in the pot and attached this
to the top of the pole at the desired angle. 3 screws around the edge
will give the head something to rest on. A couple of scrap pieces of
2" PVC hold the arm braches. The trench coat was $5 from a thrift
store, I sliced all of the liner out, undid the seams along the edges,
the generally slashed it some more. I then mixed opps brown with some
Elmer's glue and slathered it on (thanks John from pumpkinrot)
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