Project #53: 1 Year Anniversary + The Peanut Gallery
My Jack O’ LanternHe eats children
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Yay! You voted! Or you are cheating (I hope you can sleep at night). Now I shall continue with the bonus project, my Halloween costume.
On Tuesday afternoon I went to a cafe to use their wifi (my usual routine before Enamels class) but it was not working. I was there for 2.5 hours without access to the interwebs and forgot to bring a book so all I had were my two Moleskines. There is something liberating about being “forced” (liberating and forced in the same thought?) to sit with your sketchbook for that length of time. Since I had a while I thought it would be a good idea to work on a Halloween costume idea since it was only days away. After a bit of sketching I came up with The Peanut Gallery. I was pretty thrilled about it because I love to see creative costumes (especially ones that depict phrases) and I usually don’t think of anything until it’s too late and then I forget about it before the next Halloween.
I started out by taking a bundle of photos of peanuts in various situations. Three of my favorites are below, the rest are on my Flickr site.
Urchin and peanuts
Bobute and Peanuts (Bobute has traveled with me since Summer 2007)
Kinder Egg snail with Peanuts (his head moves forward when you roll him across a hard surface)After taking the photos I went out to buy all of the supplies I needed. Ideally if I had had more time (and didn’t mind spending more), I would have made gold frames that had more dimension and detail, however I chose to spray mat boards with gold webbing paint. It worked out alright and was probably the best option in terms of comfort (not sure I want the weight of 12 wooden frames on my shoulders). I connected the “framed” peanut images with a ribbon and hung them from two rods which were connected by two ribbons that went over my shoulders. Below are two images of the final product (two is the magic number).
The Peanut Gallery (front)
The Peanut Gallery (back)It looks like my head might do a full 360 Exorcist style
I like the pictures. Again, shows a total lack of creativity.
Job well done! It’s really an awesome accomplishment
Thanks! I am glad I was stuck with no internet for 2.5 hours so that I could actually come up with a costume idea!