What better way to start a prop blog than with severed limbs? A few years ago I did Little Shop of Horrors. I made this leg for Seymor to feed to the plant, Audrey II.
Steps I Took:
- Glued a dowel into styrofoam and then carved this general leg/calf shape on the lathe (Very carefully).
- Destroyed some of the top to make it look like someone had hacked it off, badly, using the dowel as a "bone".
- Applied green glue to coat the styrofoam.
- Painted it to look like the actor's leg. I painted a skin color, then light blue lines along the sides, and then went over it again with skin color to create veins. I used a comb to add leg hair.
- Found a shoe and sock from the costume shop's stock.
- Glued the sock to the styrofoam and then the styrofoam to the shoe.
- Added blood colored paint. Let it drip down a bit.
- Threw some liquid nail on there to look like tendons. (No one really could have seen them because it was a proscenium, but whatever)
Ta da!!!
Up next: Early 1900's fire hose.
