Rising New Moon Studios

The Chicken Opera Rose, Birdetta, Farmyard Chicken Completed March 2012 Items made: Dresses, Bloomers. (I did not design these amazing makeups -- I wish I had -- but I included them anyway because they're th e final element that finish the look.)  If you've been reading my blog, you'd know that I made several of the costumes for my college's original production, The Chicken Opera .   I ended up making 5 chicken costumes, but since Rose (the lead) was dual cast, I had to make 2 costumes for each of the girls playing her.  1 Rose costume and 1 not Rose costume.  Plus a costume for Birdetta.  So... 5 costumes.  Luckily, the design we came up with was the same for all of the girls, just different fabrics.  Each one started with a giant pair of bloomers to which we sew ed lots of ru ffles on the bum to form a kind of mini-bus tle.  Then I actually used a pattern I had in my library for the dresses.  We...

But I have been working on things... I just haven't had any really good progress pics to show ya. Jack is STILL drying. This humidity is not helpful at all. However, he was dry enough to take off of the foil/foam head mold--which I did. Then I went on the inside and evened out the paperclay in there... filling in the shallow spots and scraping down the thick parts. I attempted sanding some of the mask but it was really uneven, so today I went and applied a thin coat of paperclay to hopefully even out the surface a bit. When that dries I'll go back to sanding. Does anyone know if you can pu t paperclay in the oven on a really low heat for a bit? I have GOT to get this mask dry. I'm thinking this weekend, I'll film a how-to video on the whole process I've used so far. In Turducken news. I've completed Chicken #1 down to the finishing. She just needs a zipper in the back and her boa sewn on. Here are a few shots. This design uses Mc...