Doctor Finklestein

I decided to not dress up this Halloween as 'Sweeney Todd'  as I originally thought.  In keeping with our Halloween hallway theme, I dress up as Doctor Finklestein, the mad scientist in "The Nightmare Before Xmas." Like I have in the past, I made it. My mask was papier-mached, and hand painted. My coat was new, paired with some old shoes and old pants. Here is the final product. Hope you like it.

Halloween, its the best time of the year!

Its been a long time since I last updated my blog. Lots of things have happened since then, for example HALLOWEEN! it was really amazing this year. Me and my friend Farnaz were in charge of decorations for Nickelodeon's Halloween hallway. We started decorating in August, and it really paid off. Most of everything we made was made out of cardboard, papier-mache, and chicken wire. Our theme was "The Nightmare Before X-Mas", my favorite movie of all time! The first half of the hallway was Halloween Town, the other half was Christmas Town. I've posted some pictures of the final hallway as it looked the day of Halloween. 

We made Oogie Boogie out of chicken wire and burlap and spray painted him neon green. I painted his face with acrylic paints. And Farnaz and I add details on his body for full effect.  

Jack's face was borrowed from Adam Arnold who had made it out of papier-mache for a Halloween costume a few years back. We used his costume and built a body for him out of PVC pipe. He was huge!

The Jack-O-Lantern was done by our friend Justin. 

This is me standing next to the huge Sally I made. She's was made out of cardboard. Her dress was made out of flourescent paper. 

Our friend Jon Kinyon who works in the machine room was awesome enough to build the Christmas Town houses. They turned out amazing! We added snow on the roofs with christmas lights.

Stan Lee

Need I say more...awesomeness!

Nightmare Halloween

My favorite time of the year is coming up, Halloween! With Halloween comes the annual Halloween Hallway decorating at the studio. This year my cowork and friend, Farnaz and I are heading up the decorating, and we've been planning and building since August. We both get giddy when we hear the word "Halloween" and are extremely excited about this years concept, "Nightmare Before XMas", my favorite movie of ALL time. Below are pictures of what we've build thus far...

Farnaz built the Zero out of chicken wire and paper-mache. He lights up too!

I built the Mayor out of baskets and paper-mache. He'll be placed on a podium where he will spin, so both of his faces are visible.

We built this diorama in a small box. We will be making large christmas town houses out of cardboard with windows where this diorama will be placed so it gives the illusion you are looking through the window of the house.

We made Lock, Shock and Barrel out of cardboard and painted them. We still need to add a bag to the bathtub, with Santa in it. We both have high expectations for this years Halloween and hopefully people will soon start helping us out on building things.

Hats

This is a painting of the drawing I posted a few days ago. Its acrylic on canvas.

Oh 'David' how I miss thee

I visited Italy this past July. Its beautiful! I didn't want to come back! There is so much to see in every corner of that country. Everything there is so old and beautiful. Florence for me was the highlight of the trip. There's art in every corner of that city. I was fascinated by the 'David'. I thought I wouldn't be able to see him, but luckily I was able to. I starred at him for an hour. The night before I went to see him, I made this sketch of him.

Old Sketch

I came across this old sketch today. I use to have a teacher that made us get into silly poses and had us draw each other. The girl in the sketch is Diana, and she held this pose for 10 whole minutes!