More Elora

Always amazing to see these creatures in Elora, Ontario.

More photos by Mark Heine here.

Get Thee To Michael's

For those of us that use Elmer's glue for our mache props, I'm going to recommend this offering from craft smart.  Three bucks cheaper than Elmer's and I've only seen it at Michael's.  I go through tons of this stuff, so this was an exciting find tonight.  And I mixed up a batch of mache when I got home for a prop I'm starting, and it totally is the same as Elmer's.

Sorry, Elmer's, why you so expensive?  (or Dear, as my dad used to say).  

Monster On The Lora

More images here.

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.

- The Halloween Poem

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):

Basement KING During Construction

The Harvest

From the Haunt of Cathy LeBeau.

Stolloween Halloween 2016

More images here.

Stolloween 2014

More images here.

Stolloween 2013

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Local Yard Haunt

We saw these in a neighborhood nearby, so I hopped out and got some shots.

Dementor

By Thom-Heap.

More works here.

Black Gate

Stolloween's fantastic 2012 display.

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Even More Elora Monsters

Click the image for more photographs of this neat event in Elora, Ontario.



Images by Mark Heine.

More Sharon Kopriva

Huge fan of this artist's works.





sharonkopriva.net

Mache Faces

Works by petrizle.

Stolloween 2010

Another amazing year for Stolloween.

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Spooky Blue Gargoyles

I'm liking the sound of this.


spookyblue.com

Mr. Gravesley

A brand new prop from Stolloween which was created for a $20 prop contest.
Fantastic (as usual).


More photos of Buster Gravesley and a tutorial at
Stolloween.com

Stolloween's Nightmare

Stolloween's 2009 display photos are finally up.
BEAUTIFUL!


Tons of photos here.