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Portraits of My Friend
'Portraits of My Friend' is wood colored with acrylic paint and colored pencil, from 2023. It will probably always remain one of my favorite things I have ever created. Each side of the octagonal box has a different portrait.
The 3D effect is very thick layered white acrylic.
'Portraits of my Friend' is SOLD.
Gaming Table
This customized gaming table was probably one of the more challenging things I've ever taken on; I had no experience doing anything similar and there was A LOT to learn during this process. It was made as my BFF's wedding gift.
Finished Product:
It functions as a normal coffee table until you take the top off. Inside is a fully felt lined gaming table, complete with the tabletop becoming a giant chalkboard.
First, this required thrifting a suitable table that met my needs. Here is the as-is table before any alterations:
First, we had to take the top off. Wooooo, Spring Break!
Next, and the worst and longest part, was sanding. Sanding, sanding, sanding. and more sanding.
What's happening here? I have no idea. I apparently felt it was necessary to take 6 similar pictures posing like this though.
You can see we have now built in the new bottom of the table, and added the sides. This took a lot of math that I have wiped from my memory.
Of course, the paintjob was my jam. Emerald green and black are her favorite colors.
The felt gaming surface was the last piece added, after a good protective coating. Now a shot of the finished table with the top off you saw earlier!
Ugly Sweater
I made this sweet thing for an ugly sweater party for work. Of course, a typical sweater with garland and tensile stapled to it won the contest, but I feel like I won when I sold it online for a pretty penny later. This is felt and embroidery on a thrifted sweater, 2016.
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and of course, it wouldn’t be complete without an awkward school photo of me in it:
Jem and The Holograms film: Synergy
for three years and 5 days I spear headed a ridiculous project; a Jem and The Holograms fan film. I edited, directed, made music, designed costumes, did make up, made props, kinda sorta everything, along with the help of my amazing novice movie making coop, Homespun Horror, who all donated their time for free so graciously for this and all of our other projects. I’ll share props and pieces of this film and others over time. Today, let’s look at Synergy, a mastermind AI who makes Jem who she is.
Here is the original machine from the cartoon:
Here is a look of the no-secrets, flash on one I made for our movie. It’s probably the roughest prop we’ve ever used that wasn’t literally a can of Bean with Bacon Soup from the cabinet. It was just me and some old carboard boxes and a steak knife in the garage.
Of course, it looked a lot better in its intended lighting of near total darkness, so she can light up.
Synergy was made pretty quickly from spray painted cardboard, an old keyboard, LED lights, scraps of whatever worked. It was placed in front of a TV that played the previously recorded footage of our actor.
This was the only crowd funded project we ever made, and even what we raised didn’t cover the costs of filming/completing the movie. We were on a super tight budget, as we always were, so we made do. But honestly, we’ve always made B-Movies gorilla style, and it was really part of what made it so fun.
I’ll be posting more stuff from this fan film over time. You can always check out the finished film and the bloopers on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoBuU3uGsY&t=6s
Unique Ghost Box
SOLD. “Portraits of my Friend” is a six sides box, hand painted, and one of a kind. Each side of the box and the inside are completely different from one another!
It’s an upcycled box, with acrylic and colored pencil to create the design. I wanted to consider what a ghost would do while they spend all their time trapped in the haunted house to which they are bound.
It opens up to reveal 4 little box containers inside.
I have really enjoyed creating all the Halloween boxes and clocks in the last few years, and I really, really an in love with this one.
Pastel Rainbow Fantasy Jewelry
Made a necklace and a few sets of both hook and clip on earrings for my Etsy shop! Find me there @ Haylan Makes Stuff
Day 6, 7, & 8 of my 21 day Skeksis Costume Build
DAY 6: OCTOBER 15TH
GUESS WHAT! Today is the day I did nothing but drive 1.5 hours into town, one way, and shop for materials! What an exciting day. It felt like time wasted on such a tight time line, but necessary. And breaks are good for your productivity, too!
DAY 7: OCTOBER 16TH
More shopping, snout armor, head dress, backpack.
1.) I was getting nervous at this point, because I spent ALL of yesterday running around to different stores of all kinds trying to find a backpack with a frame that would work. It was like they vanished from Earth. I had looked all over several towns and still hadn’t found one. This morning I decided to try the tiny local thrift show in the next town over and FINALLY found one that was meant to carry kids on hikes for just $5! I was so excited. I try to thrift and reuse as much as possible, so I was doubly happy for this.
2.) I spent the rest of the day on a quick spike for the top of his head or head dress. This is made of foam board glued together and carved:
DAY 8: OCTOBER 17th
Working on the backpack, head dress, snout ornament, hands, face, rings.
1.) Since I am not great at power tools, Husband helped me with this part. We sawed away parts of the backpack carrier and the cloth of the pack to get the frame we needed, and used PVC pipe to build the frame we needed. No hot glue here, this is all PVC glue.
2.) Next, I painted the snout ornament with golds and used black paint to distress it.
3.) Moving on to the head dress spike, I covered it in plumbers aluminum Tape to fit.
4.) Then I mushed it around look like metal and distressed it with black paint. I then covered it (like everything I paint with acrylic) in Acrylic Clear Coat spray. Glossy or matte depending on the object – I keep both handy and use it a lot.
5.) On Skekso’s hands, he had intricate jewelry and fixin’s. I changed it to be more realistic for a 21 day build, and also to be durable for meeting people and picture taking on Halloween night. His arms are, after all, fully mobile, so functionality needed to be taken into account. I would have loved to make these rings from scratch, but given time was disappearing, I got these at Goodwill for very little. Here they are before I messed with them at all:
6.) Here are the rings after some of the coats of paint to distress and patina them:
7.) Moving on to the head; remember I did a thin layer of latex on the foam? Here’s where you amp it up. Using tissue, just regular old sneeze-into-it tissue, I layered latex to create skin, including wrinkles and lines. This took care of covering any seams of foam, etc. and will give it a more lifelike look.
I just did this all over the head, folding and using the tissue to thicken wrinkles, etc.
That’s all for today! Come back for more posts about my journey through the Big Rock Candy Mountain to build this Skeksis costume in 21 days. Happy Halloween All Year!
Hand painted Halloween Clock
Just finished this hand painted Halloween clock that doubles as a jewelry box or little storage container. It’s acrylic on wood. It’s up on Etsy now! Just in time for the most wonderful time of the year.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/880100135/hand-painted-halloween-clockjewelry-box?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1
