Showing posts with label foam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foam. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Tombstones Of Foam

He gutted the pumpkins, the best in the bin.
He stabbed each some eyes, a nose, and a grin.

He rushed to the lawn – The Front Yard of Fear.
And set up his zombies he built through the year.

He constructed his graveyard with tombstones of foam,
And placed a cloth ghost in its gloomy crypt home.


I hate foam.  I've long ranted about those small white spheres that end up all over the place when you buy something new and you remove it from its cushioned box.  Before you know it, you have tiny white foam dots clinging to you like ticks. 
 
I have never ceased to marvel at the Haunter who masters the medium of foam.  They turn ordinary foam sheets into stuff that resembles real stone...  and even old rotted wood.  That is just something I could never master.  And will never ever attempt.  I was looking at my old Haunt photos and I cringe at the crudeness of these tombstones my brother and I made back in the 80s.  We upgraded them over the years, first with a layer of flour mache and then with added structures/protrusions (the first year was literally just carved foam sheets...and we eye-balled the shapes [and you can totally tell!]).

Below, a visual history of our crimes (but they got the job done):









Saturday, January 1, 2022

Brandon Hardy's Tombstones

Posting another tutorial by this talented guy.  I detest working with foam of any kind, but he makes it look SO easy (though I'm certain it's not).


Click below...


Sunday, January 20, 2019

Tombstone Makeover

Really dig what these guys have done here.  And I love the toppled and cracked tombstone. 



More images at The Hollywood Haunter.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Art Nouveau Halloween



From Kara Walker Designs.

Foam:  My nemesis.  I am always in awe of people who work so well with foam.  But aren't you constantly living in fear of something snapping off?  Or some kid kicking a tombstone and it flying apart?  Is there some way to make it firm and somewhat durable?

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Highbury How-To

GREAT instructions on making a foam tombstone over at the Highbury Cemetery blog.

Click below:

http://highburycemetery.blogspot.com/2016/07/rm-renfield-tombstone-how-to.html

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Kingdom Cemetery

You just can't beat a traditional cemetery.  Mind you, this is the one at the Haunted Mansion, but I've seen folks make home versions with foam stones which look just as good if not better.  Which brings up foam.  I'm a man who detests being near styrofoam.  And those small white dots that break off and get stuck to everything and everyone?  Awful.
So no foam gravestones for me.

Image source.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Headstones Of Foam

Some great work here.

Click below for a tutorial: