Take this and dip it in glow in the dark paint.
You want it just in that circle.
Could you get it into that circle right there?
Put a little bit like that.
Very good, Joe.
When the lights go off, her eyes are gonna glow.
What are you gonna show us?
All right, so I came up with this idea.
I wanted my house to really look like a haunted house,
so I mean, lookin' at a haunted house,
what's the first thing you'll see?
The boards on the windows.
This is what I did.
I went to my local hardware store
and I picked up insulation foam.
The pink with the blue stuff,
which is what we have right here.
That's this stuff.
Okay, right here.
Super cheap and cheerful
and it'll keep you warm in a pinch.
Exactly.
Now you can get thinner stuff,
it doesn't have to be this thick,
it can be a little thinner.
No, it looks good thick.
Get the thick stuff, yeah. But it does.
It does look good.
All right, so now what we did here was,
we painted it a base color.
And what we're gonna do is we're gonna do
a dry brush technique.
So we're gonna go with some grays
and some lighter colors right now.
And we're gonna actually create the effect of wood grain.
So, the best brush to use would be this.
It's a dragon, it's called a dragon brush.
(Rachael growls)
So this is what we're gonna do.
'Kay.
We'll go with a medium tone like a gray.
And we'll slowly drag it across.
Like you drag bodies through the dirt.
We're gonna put more on.
(Rachael laughs)
We're gonna put more.
Now, by wiggling it, when you wiggle the brush,
that's also gonna help create the wood-graining effect.
Now we're gonna actually dip with another color.
We're gonna use the same brush.
Oh, the same brush.
I wanna do something!
All right, you wanna do something, all right.
Perfect, perfect.
A little bit, right? Bring it from this end.
A little wiggly.
A little bit.
A little wiggly.
Yeah, a little bit.
Right. There you go, okay.
It's a one hour show, Joe.
Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna dry brush,
real quick over it.
It's gonna blend some of this together.
I gotta good hold on it.
Sucker. All right, there we go.
Wait, one more thing. What?
One more thing we forgot, nailheads.
Oh, just the nailheads 'cause you're not gonna make holes
in the side of you're house.
No, you're not gonna do that.
So you're just gonna do a couple of nailheads over here
as though it was put in.
It's wet so, we put it on.
Just grab the edges.
And then we stick it on the doo-dad.
Right there, like that.
And there you go.
(audience clapping)
So here we're gonna start with a portrait.
And what we're gonna do, this is my dad
as you noticed from the intro.
I want to include him because this is really his tip.
We're gonna make his eyes follow you
using an optical illusion.
It's really, really simple
and I believe all of you folks can do this at home.
Okay.
So what we're gonna start by doing,
is we're gonna cut out the eyes right here.
Okay.
And I actually have a pre-cut.
The eyes are gone here.
We're gonna cut a ping pong ball in half.
Okay.
And we're gonna use the ping pong ball for eyes.
What do we cut it with? We're gonna take
the X-ACTO knife right here.
Okay.
Any knife can do, you could even use a kitchen knife
if you have one.
Not my kitchen knife, you use the X-ACTO knife.
I have a Rachael Ray kitchen set.
Aw, thank you.
So we're gonna cut this real quick.
Now you always wanna cut away from you, of course,
because you don't wanna hurt yourself.
Once you get about 3/4 of the way done, you can just stop
and it'll snap open on its own,
like so. Gotcha.
Now you've got two eyeballs.
And you'll notice that they are concave on the inside.
This is going to be what creates our illusion.
Okay.
Now, my eyes are green and my dad's eyes are also green,
so we're gonna use this green marker.
But if you wanna go for a demonic effect,
you can use a red marker.
All right, so now we've got some green for the iris
and we're gonna the pupil is gonna be black.
So we're gonna put that in there.
I'm doing dad's other eyeball.
Yeah, thank you Rachael.
We're just gonna put the eyeballs right here
and tape them on.
Tape 'em on.
I can handle tape.
(grunts) Not so much!
Or you can put it in a frame like this.
(Rachael screaming)
Doesn't it look good?
(audience clapping)
Carve a foam pumpkin,
you can pick it up at any craft store.
They're nice to have because you can reuse them every year.
Right, you don't have to You don't have to
get rid of them.
Right, and you can build on If there's one that you did
that you love, okay we don't have to throw it out,
we can keep it.
For the kids, 'cause we have a two year old now,
and she doesn't know how to carve yet,
but she can pick out her own eyes, her own nose,
her own mouth, so you can put a bunch on the table,
you can have your kids pick up any eyes they want.
They can put them on, you can trace them,
and then you can cut them out,
but they own it. And they feel like
it's their pumpkin,
correct. They did it.
A lot of people use different knives at house.
The best what I have is a box cutter.
It actually cuts really.
For a foam pumpkin
it gives you a smoother cut. For a foam pumpkin.
It's much stronger than those little
pumpkin knives that you get in the grocery stores
like that one there. Yep.
These are much tougher.
This is tougher. These are good to use
because, for like the The detail work.
The detail work, exactly.
And the good thing about using the fake pumpkins
is that you don't have to, a big mess.
Can I show them some of these?
Yeah, this would be our finished product of the pumpkin
that we just kind of cut. These are amazing,
and then how are we gonna illuminate them?
So, you can take a wand and you're gonna crack that
and shake it up.
Gotta crack it. Glow stick!
You can throw it in there.
(Rachael yelling)
And the nice thing about this is you can put
whatever color you want.
Oh, mine fell out. You can change it.
(audience cheering and clapping)
(chimes shimmering)