MAKING LATEX       CREATURES

SUPPLYS        Latex               Brush        Paper Towels        Cotton Balls        Glass filled with soapy water        Paint          Plastic container

This is a basic how 2 on making creatures with latex. I use a wire frame because I like to make weird things. But you can use latex over a foam base or try it on a cheap blow mold skull to make prop heads that are more then a simple skull.

I have try all the different latex suppliers out there an  Monstermakers (thick latex) & Cementex (mold latex)  work best for someone trying this for the first time. I have used all  types of latex to make creature and the thiner latex in the hardest  to use.  I also use cotton balls that I unroll . The picture on the right is an unroll cotton ball. I use paper towel and the best I found so far is Viva. You have to watch out and make sure the paper towel you pick doesn`t have any prints on it or a design pressed into it. The last thing you need is a skull with a flower design on it. The middle picture is my creatures wire frame.

This creature is going to be black so I`m going to mix some black paint and latex in my plastic container. I just added and mix until I get a nice even color. Colored latex drys darker so the gray in the picture on the right will dry black.

This creature will have wings that are boney. So the first thing I  will do is unroll some cotton balls that I will wrap around the creatures wing bones.You can see this in the picture on the left. I just wrap the cotton around the wire and when I need to add another piece of cotton I just over lap the last piece a little. The only thing you have to do is keep the same rotation with the wrapping. In the second picture I want you to see that all ends of wire should be bent or looped away from the end to prevent the wire from cutting you. The next picture shows that both bones for the wings have been covered. And the last picture has the tail and legs completely wrapped with cotton. The wrapping part is easy but the unrolling the cotton is slow.

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