In October 2014 I made my first poultry wire ghost.
I had seen photos of wire ghosts and loved how the mesh looked etherial, especially at first glance in the dark.
One ghost led to two, as I wanted to make one larger.
The idea to put the ghost’s hands over her face came from watching Dr Who and the weeping angels. It also solved the awkwardness of sculpting hands.
I had many requests for these ghosts, so I wrote instructions with tips and tricks, which has become my best selling item on Etsy.
I found an LED light that casts wave like forms in selectable colors. What a perfect thing to set under a ghost!
I set up one of my chicken wire ghosts and draped with with fine netting fabric. This is a basic version using my wire ghost instructions (which are currently selling like hot cakes on Etsy, wow). The ghosts in the instructions are more detailed with stylized netting, this version has no arms and uses just a long section of netting thrown over the top. I tried just setting the light under the ghost, but didn’t like that I could see it. I found a dark pot (which is actually part of a helium can that I cut off the top and painted black a while back), and placed that under the ghost with the light inside. I had to adjust the lengths of steel posts that stabilize the ghost from an X formation to parallel to accommodate the can, but it worked.
The white light is quite bright, but I think the blue color is nice.
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