{"id":3165,"date":"2020-10-25T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2020-10-25T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:43:48","slug":"building-oogie-boogie-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2020\/10\/building-oogie-boogie-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Oogie Boogie (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had wanted to have a human-sized Oogie Boogie as part of the scene, and found a great tutorial online for how to build an Oogie Boogie costume.<\/strong><\/a> So, I followed her procedure, starting with the head. She recommended using air-dry clay to create the raised areas of Oggie’s face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately for me, the air-dry clay cracked during the drying process, making it unusable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, I switched gears to a technique I have used many times – tapermache’ (newspaper + duct tape). I re-created the forms with rolled newspaper and secured them with duct tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, I continued back with the steps of the tutorial and covered the head with burlap. (I was able to re-use burlap which we used for the ground during our Tatooine-themed Halloween house several years before).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used hot glue on the cardboard and tapermache’, pressing the burlap into the glue to have it conform to the raised shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I ended up needing to do two layers of burlap, but ultimately got Oogie’s head blocked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then painted black in the eye and mouth areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, to create the body, I laid the burlap out on the ground and traced my body on to it. I then sketched out the pointed hands and feet and larger belly of Oogie on top of that sketch to create the final body shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, after a lot<\/em> of sewing, I was able to create a basic body shape for Oogie, which I could then fill with stuffing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stay tuned for a future post about finishing Oogie Boogie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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