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Tournament de Tombstone
Mine will be a tombstone in a
tombstone. A tombstone shaped like a reaper will be opening his robes to reveal
a tombstone inside. Impressions of skulls will be pressing against the reaper's
cloak as if they are trying to escape. The crumbling tombstone revealed by the
reaper will have a single word, 'VACANCY'.
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| Final Entry
| Item |
Cost |
| flour, 1/2 bag |
0.75 |
| salt, 1/8 can |
0.65 |
| cheese cloth |
2.99 |
| tinfoil |
0.25 |
| black spray paint, 1 can |
0.99 |
| old paint (gray, black, brown) |
1.00 |
| polyeurothane 1/8 can |
1.00 |
| spackling, trace |
0.25 |
| sandpaper, sheet |
0.50 |
| Styrofoam, 2 of 6 peices |
2.00 |
| liquid nails for foam, trace |
0.50 |
| Masking tape, trace |
0.50 |
| Tissue, trace |
0.25 |
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| total |
11.63 |
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Height: 40 1/4 inches
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| Technique, reaper part (see pictures above)
- Built frame from scrap wood
- Covered old skull with tin foil (pressed tight against skull), then
covered with paper mache (four, salt, water, and newspaper). Cut
mache off when dry, added second coat to glue halves back together.
Made 10.
- Made half skull using paper mache with tissue (Vlad's technique)
- Mounted all skulls to the frame. Added cardboard template to
represent inner tombstone.
- Draped cheesecloth over skulls on side, painted with paper mache mix.
- Used newspaper to form hood, and inner cloak, and cape on back.
- Several coats of paper mache
- Sanded, painted flat black, then spackled and sanded again.
Final coat of flat black, followed by 2 coats polyurethane.
- Flat black spray paint in skull eyes.
- Sponged on Gray opps, followed by light sponging of white, followed by
even lighter sponging of watered down burnt umber. Trace touches of
Forest Green.
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Technique, Vacancy stone
- Made the basic stone with three layers of 1/2 " Styrofoam, The inner
layer was made with scrap pieces from cutting the 2 outer layers.
- Drew a stencil for the vacancy on paper.
- Masked off the Styrofoam where the epitaph would go, then used the
stencil to cut the words out of the masking tape. A also got some
scrap cardboard and cut some jagged edges onto it.
- Used black spray paint on the stencil so it would eat way the foam for
the letters. Used the jagged cut cardboard around the edges with
spray paint to form the crumbling edges.
- Base coat of opps brown and black latex.
- Dry brushed gray, then a little more brown. Touched up the
lettering with black latex.
- Sponged a little forest green onto the crumbling sections.
- Put the vacancy stone in the reaper stone.
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