by olave13 | Apr 26, 2017
Half goblin and half gremlin, this one was a commission for a friend. A rough foam carving was the basis for adding cold porcelain teeth and spikes. The skin texture was a combination of cotton batting and paper mache pulp. I added a little hair for the fun of it!...
by olave13 | Jan 16, 2017
Gorilla suits! I’ve been in love with gorilla suits since I was a little kid. It seemed like every other comedy, horror, adventure or movie serial had a guy in a gorilla suit in it. And if you have an appreciation for them like I do, you need to go visit...
by olave13 | Jan 13, 2017
THE MAKING OF KANIRAH This costume was made for an art event in Portland, Oregon. My daughter, Zena Walas, was my model and I built the entire suit on her so that it would be able to close up and open up like a box crab. I used poly foam build-up to get the main forms...
by olave13 | Dec 28, 2016
This piece was really a test for me. I wanted to see how a very thick layer of my paper pulp mix would distort as it dried so that I could begin to gauge things like the level of detail and depth of lines in the initial sculpts. Cold porcelain teeth with some leftover...
by olave13 | Dec 28, 2016
This project started out with an old plastic Halloween skeleton. The paper mache pulp I use is particularly good at representing desiccated or deteriorating flesh and it really made the difference on this piece. Lots of smaller details were done with cold porcelain....
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