Presenting....DISCO DEER (aka silver stag)

[cute_cinnamon]

This was part of a textiles project at my college. Basically the brief was to design a mask or headdress based on the film The Wicker Man. If you haven’t seen the film it’s basically about a policeman who goes to investigate the disappearance of a girl on a remote Scottish Island. The people on the island are part of some weird religion/cult. In the film they have a May day parade and wear animal masks. Our masks had to be based on Scottish animals. I chose a stag and here you can see it being made in stages….     


The basic skeleton made with wire and a glue gun.


With added tissue paper.


The head part which was painful wear so I had to put a cushion inside lol. 


Since the Wicker man is based on a pagan religion I decided to do a sort of Celtic/pagan pattern on the deer’s head. 


The finished piece!

Believe it or not one of my teachers wanted to buy this to wear out clubbing!

[ninjanator]

wow that's stunning, i especially like the antlers (also i find that bit about your teacher hilarious and awesomely refreshing )

[pinokeeo]

This is fabulous.  What did you use for the glassy parts of the antlers?  I can see where someone would want to wear it.  It's cool.

[cute_cinnamon]

I actualy had to take apart some disco balls to make the antlers.   It was very fun to make but also a bit sore at times with lots of wire and bits of glass.

[superhooker]

That is fabulous.  It makes me want to make a disco stag-head to hang in the living room.

[Nymla]

That is just awesome!