something a little more upbeat

Jazz Hands!

I missed the zombie walk this year, so I haven't had the opportunity to cover myself in sequins and corn syrup. But you know my year wouldn't be complete without turning someone into a zombie.
Dr Sketchy's Halloween special "Zombie strippers!" I got to make up the lovely Jessica Jamieson.

This photo is a still from "Abstraction" and art documentary being created by some Humber film students. I will advertise it more once it's finished. but I am pretty excited already.

Halloween.

I had been trying to make a mask this year, in the search for making a hand sculpted mask both light weight and durable, I experimented with fiberglass and sculpy. I failed miserably. The sticky, still toxic, abomination is sitting in the garage.

So I found myself the day before Halloween without a costume. An embarrassing situation for a girl the spent every summer she was in school perfecting what she'd be wearing the last day of October. I spent the afternoon carving a pair of horns out of upholstery foam and spray painted them black. I dug up the pair of pointed ears that Brett wore last year for our Star Trek Skechy's and at last I had something. I painted myself first with black aqua color and then smoothed it out with black grease paint and glued the horns to my head with spirit gum. I had forgotten how strong that stuff was when you use it right, I have no make-up or spirit gum remover, I had to break them off my head at the end of the night. I still haven't managed to get all the black off. But it was worth it. no?

Speaking of body paint, October also marks year 13 of my everyday ritual of face painting.

here's one of the oldest face paint pics I have. There are older and better ones but I'd have to go back to my parents house to find them.

blagh! sloppy paint job.
guess how old I am in this pic.