Extreme Halloween

The thread about "evil" face paintings (lol) got me to thinking about Halloween. Thought I'd share my fave site. If you are into carving pumpkins, this is the site for you. Scroll down and check the menu for past winners in their yearly contest. Enjoy!

http://www.extremepumpkins.com/

Here's my favorite website for Halloween...


http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/

Halloween is only 67 days... I can't wait! I am a little crazy for Halloween its my Christmas....lol

What a sweet, lovely family

Looks like fun!

LOVE it!

*smile*

Oh Jenn, that photo is awesome. Bet they had a great time scaring the pooh out of kids...and maybe some adults too.

That is me and my daughter! Every year I try to theme my family to some horror concept. My daughter loves it my son wont have any part of it..lol We have scared adults and children alike. But in my neighborhood halloween is extreme some kid targeted some adult targeted I aim for the 12 and up age group and only the brave little kids will come up for candy..lol Here is a few more shots of my family for halloween... like I said its my christmas the budget goes out the window!..lol



We had a skeleton year too... can't find those pics though. This years theme... zombies! Yay!!

This was killer clown year at the end of the night so the makup was on its way out but still an okay shot I think:

Can I come to your house to play on Halloween?

I was thinking the same thing! LOL its my favorite holiday, I go all out, possible more than christmas for halloween! my J could care less though, hoping LB takes after me. I think she will, she was a lady bug today for no reason, and wouldnt speak unless I call her Laty Bug. Yes, LATY bug. lol
I love halloween, oooo thanks for sharing! wicked cool

That looks like so much fun! I'm excited that this year will be my first Halloween off work in forever! I finally get to take my munchkin trick or treating!!

lol Looks like fun!!! Halloween is usually a big deal around our house, too. But the schools put such a limit on what they can wear and since I can't afford more than 1 costume, they are usually stuck. But we are gonna try to make things a little more fun this year!

btw thanks for the link.

OMG... we dont really do the halloween thing here in Australia.. NOT like that anyway.. the big thing 4 us is to knock on the door and say trick or treat, get lollies and move on... But that would scAre the crap out of me. LOL Last year I had kids knock at the door and there was 2 little kids nice/cute and there dad.. stadnig ther like JASON with this big naughty word knife.. scared the hell out of me.. I was VERY quick to give them lollies so they could leave lol.

I've been known to cause three year olds to scream and terror and refuse the candy... I was a werewolf one Halloween and the little kids weren't "into it" IYKWIM

Another year I was a TMNT... that went over okay.

We don't decorate though... I'm usually trapped in my basement studio doing make-up by appointment so there's no time to bother.

Thank you for sharing!

I am so excited for Halloween! This is my first as a painter. But my MIL takes Halloween so seriously that it usually takes a couple WEEKS to put up all her decorations, and another week to take it down. Which we get to help with A LOT. I will have to dig pics and figure out how to post.

COOL pics!

I specially like the killer clowns - very freaky

We start decorating October 1st we complete it usually a few days before halloween. Last year I started with bags of guts in the trees... just a clear cellophane bag with those gooey jello like worms and blood and a rubber heart etc and then red paint... has every kid on the way to school grossed out..lol Then I did bags of bones skulls with cheesecloth and blood drippings I hang them all from my big tree out front.... those took a day but it was homemade fun. We also took halloween masks put them on styrofoam heads and built spikes to do a lawn display dripped blood from them and barbedwire around them had all the neighbors stop and look. I love halloween it's my fave holiday of the year. In our neighborhood we have line ups to the doors and from the doors and the streets have mobs of people we have stilt walkers and police who monitor it all. They advertise the neighborhood on the radio and then vans pull up and drop kids off to trick or treat. We run out of candy fast. Last year I bought about 500 pieces and was out by 730pm. Its crazy here all my foreign exchange students are surprised how big halloween is here. Other neighbors have hydrolic pop up skulls when you walk up the walkway and some do dead corn stalk fences and blacklight the webbing... its just amazing here for halloween.

Hey does anyone have any special tips for liquid latex and peeling skin FX or melting skin type fx. I think I am going to try to get a zombie flesh hanging theme going on this year but I have to head down to the movie production shop but not too sure what products I need and all. Liquid latex you buy in a jug and paint it on right? I am guessing I am just going to peel some off and paint again building layers and just let it all hang in flaps etc. Any tips would be appreciated as this will be my first time playing with that medium. Can't wait to try it out!

That's been covered before... prehaps try a search for "Latex"?

Also, I blogged HERE about how to do easy latex effects.

I searched it only found painting on it threads and then one about it being for sale and freezing temps of it. Not quite what I was looking for. If you have a link to the thread please post it as I can't seem to find it. I was going to google it as well see what I found. Thanks.

I provided the link to my blog... the word HERE in my previous post is the link. Click on it.

I tear a piece of Kleenex along the weft. iIt will be jagged I paint the latex around the edges of the torn kleenex and lay it down into position. Then, I paint in vlack eyes, bloody noses, etc. I paint a quick thin layer of latex over the just laid down kleenex When it is dry. I tear open a hole or two to create a pocket for scab blood and then I paint necrotic colored skin and plops of decaying skin.

Play! Have fun!
Lisa
fesspenter

"I tear open a hole or two to create a pocket for scab blood and then I paint necrotic colored skin and plops of decaying skin."

Now there's a sentence you don't see every day......I don't know why but it really struck me funny!

I totally didnt see the HERE highlighted..lol Sorry I did search it though. Okay thanks Shannon I will check it out. Using tissue.... hmmmhave to try that out then.Thanks for the tip... the grosser the better!!

OMG I love your burn work Shannon!! I will have to try the cereal and the tissue out now this year. I guess my zombies will have had some bad luck this year and been burned to death... can't wait to try this all out!

There's some awesome scary stuff here you could use for halloween & there's step by steps too.
http://www.facepaintforum.com/f80-casualty-simulation

Loving all the links in this post. Thank you so much.