razorwyre1

Show and Tell!
Well last weekend my assistant and I attended the Halloween and Party Expo at the Brown Convention Center in Houston Texas. Its kind of hard to describe one of these shows to someone who's never attended one. In many ways, its just like any other large industry trade show: hundreds of booths from companies offering their products to tens of thousands of retailers, who have come to see the new stuff and order the stock

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Introducing my good friend “J”... the “J-brush” that is...

Way back in 1983-4 , I worked as a sculptor for Macky Molds, a ceramic molds company in my hometown of Wyandotte MI. Macky made molds for decorative ceramics, the molds being sold to ceramic hobby shops all over the country. This meant that during the day I was sculpting bunnies and duckies and penguins, and at home in the evenings I'd ...

"Please Release Me, Let My Clay go....."

Hi gang! Right off the bat, I want to thank Eric for asking me to do this. I'm really honored that he thinks so highly of me, and I'll try to live up to his opinion of me, both as a mask-maker and as a writer..

Most of you probably don't know who I am. Well, my name is Ray Heikes, and for the past 25 years I've been working almost continually as a professional designer of Halloween masks, props, and decorations for a number ...