Neither beautiful nor useful

[slightlyfoxed]

A friend has recently built himself a woodshed. Every good woodshed needs Something Nasty in it, so I'm going to make him one. I'm not sure how best to do it. It needs to survive rain and ideally frost, although it's fine if it looks worse as the years wear on. Ideas so far

Comments

[braisedbywolves]

Glowing/reflecting eyes for a dark corner?

[venta]

Some Green Men can get pretty scary - maybe a Green Man with a copper face, and the leafy parts made of inner tube ?

The bonus part is that if he gets verdigris-ed or grows green algae on the inner tubes, it just adds to the effect...

[miss_annersley]

I think a carved wooden face would be good. My mother had a wooden gnome face in her garden for years - it peered out of a creeper, very sinister. Now she has a carved African mask on the back wall which has weathered splendidly - I think things that become more obviously organic as they age are appropriate...

(she also has the top half of a shop mannequin, painted battleship grey, in one of the flower-beds)

[friend_of_tofu]

Care, then dry out a small, hollowed-out pumpkin in the oven? It'll keep ages!

[friend_of_tofu]

*Carve

[artremis]

you can't go wrong with tentacles.

Rather than starting with an idea of what you want it took look like and then trying to fashion stuff into that shape i suggest going for a wander somewhere interesting (the each, a bit of woodland, a shed full of rubbish) and gathering any bits and bobs that seem interesting and then seeing what shape they make together with just a bit of help from you. Then perhaps enhancing it with paint and/or shiny things?