Gargoyle prop and body painting

I was commissioned to build a decorative piece for the Minneapolis Goth Prom, sponsored by gothling.com at the time, and decided to produce a human-sized gargoyle statue. Rather than create a human figure from scratch, I decided to accomplish the granite stone effect with body paint. The wings, tail, hair, and pedestal were constructed and painted separately out of various materials.

You'll notice there are no straps holding the wings on. This is because they were mounted to a PVC bracket, fashioned to fit around my neck and rest on my shoulders. In essence, the wings simply "hooked on" and rested there. Since I was not moving, the hooks worked nicely. I disguised the apparatus by covering it with strands of "hair".

The hair was meant to look like basic locks, carved from a single piece of stone. It was mounted to a skull cap, and painted to match. Stone "eyebrows" were made from the same material.

The bifurcated tail is actually attached to the pedestal and is rigid where it meets the bottom of the wings. Although the figure appears to be squatting, I'm actually sitting on top of the tail, which has a small seat. This is all disguised by the long loin cloth I'm wearing.

Under the dark lighting of the venue, this effect was received very well. I was sitting perfectly still. At least a few patrons were fooled into thinking the gargoyle was a real statue.