- In this edition of arteffects visit the horrifying house of Harrelloween.

(wolf howling) - [Jason] We've put out an increasing number of creatures and props, just all the magic that kinda encompasses Halloween.

(jazzy music) - [Beth] A creator's artistic ex - [Jennifer] Once I released this inner artist that I obviously always had, but didn't know it.

And so recently I started viewing everything differently.

- [Beth] A sci-fi costume design (intense music) - [Brian] Yeah I've got these de floating around in my head and half the time they're not even on paper, I just kind of drag them down and start making them.

- [Beth] And the grisly art of M - [Lynzie] People are realizing that it's worth their while to actually go out and do this M and make people look like their realistic injuries.

- It's all ahead on this edition of arteffects.

(chill jazzy music) - Funding for arteffects is made possible by Sandy Raffealli The June S. Wisham Estate Carol Franc Buck Merrill and Lebo Newman Heidemarie Rochlin Meg and Dillard Myers, the annual contributions of PBS Reno Members.

And by.

(chill jazzy music) - Hello, I'm Beth McMillan and welcome to arteffects.

For our featured segment, get into the spooky spirit of Ha As we take a look at a couple who goes all out for this haunting holiday with giant spiders, skeletons, w and more, Jason and Sarah Harrell of sparks choose each creature with care and artistry.

(thunder sound) (spooky music) (wolf howling) - I'm Jason.

- I'm Sarah.

And together we're Harrelloween.

(spooky music) - [Sarah] As a kid, my family di they celebrated Halloween differ and we didn't get to go trick or We had harvest parties and things like that.

So I didn't get to get into the spooky creepy stuff of Halloween, couldn't even carve pumpkins for a while so, just as I grew up and, you k know you can do something the way you want to do it and where the way the rest of the world does it, you know, kind of was motivation of why I've always liked Hallowe And then when we met, we both loved Halloween and it kind of evolved in and blossomed from there.

- [Jason] I've loved horror movies my entire life so that kinda goes hand in hand oftentimes with, with Halloween, and I've always loved Halloween.

And I grew up in the sticks of North Carolina where Halloween wasn't really much of a thing.

Missed out on a lot of that grow And I think I'm just making up for it now in adulthood.

- It's like we found somebody that we could really, you know, make something cool and grow our love of Halloween, a true, true partner that has th fun things about Halloween that we'd like to do.

- [Jason] Plus we love just being creative together.

And I think we work together ver I'm very fortunate that I've fou to grow that with.

- [Sarah] Yeah, and I, I think, you know, because it's been such a passion for both of us, it's really evolved immensely into what we do today.

And it's fun to have somebody who has that same passion as you It's fun.

- To say the very least.

(Sarah laughs) (spooky music) - [Sarah] Come August is when we kind of start getting into gear and thinking about building, you ideas that we found throughout t - [Jason] And then everything on the outside has to be done by October.

That's always our, our number one mission is to hav the outside ready to go for Octo We put out an increasing number of creatures and props, tons and tons and tons of lights just all the magic that kind of encompasses Halloween.

Really try to just get our personalities out there.

- [Sarah] We got a family of spiders out there, Charlotte, Webster, Spencer, and Cobb is our newest one.

We got a 12 foot skeleton, got a family of witches, lots of ghosts and almost 300 pumpkins out there.

- [Jason] Yeah roughly 300 pumpk The majority of which are on the and sprinkled all throughout the (spooky music) - [Sarah] What we build out there is, you know, our ideas in our head where we want to create something and, and you bring it to life and it's it's has our own touch on it too, you know?

Yeah, I made a 10 foot sandworm out there from Beetlejuice, but I made it my own or put, you these spiderwebs with these gian it's all a form of art, I mean, it's not your typical Pi that you'd see in the museum, but it just our own interpretati on things that we love and making them in real life.

- Yeah.

- Absolutely.

(spooky music) - [Sarah] We do have cameras on all, everything outside.

So we're checking that for what we call "looky boos" instead of "looky loos", just to see how many people come in and enjoy it.

And so it's just, it goes by so fast on Halloween, but leading up to it, I mean, ev every night we take a walk out t and bask in the Halloween glow and, you know, see things that we need tweak the next day.

So that's what is a good feeling throughout the month and not just on Halloween.

- Especially in times of the wor where things may not be the happ and they can be stressful.

People are pretty appreciative of just trying to flood the neighborhood with t and that happiness.

- [Sarah] We love what we do, it's so fun for us.

And it's really cool to see other people enjoying it too.

(spooky music) - To see more Halloween decor, follow the Harrell's on Instagra @harrelloween.

As an artist, Jennifer Lanzilott does not limit herself.

From painting leaves to writing young adult fiction.

She finds inspiration all around in different forms of media.

Up next, we head to Michigan to hear from the artist herself.

(chill guitar music) - You're working on a canvas that is part of the earth.

And then if I paint on this leaf I'm giving a piece of earth back to somebody.

(chill guitar music) So I actually don't have a background in art.

It's really funny, my background is in social work.

I gave up social work to be home with my kids, and that's when I started writin So I wrote some action, adventur and I kind of did it with the id that my kids would read it one d they're kind of the movies that I had going through my head that I thought I need to get this on paper.

This series is called "Heal me" and the first book is "Heal me" and the second book is "Healed" and it's actually about a woman who has the ability to heal.

And so at a time when terrorists have hit nuclear power plants a government agent is sent to fi and bring her in and he ends up that this person's not who the world thinks she is.

For Chicory Island, there's an organism in the water, and it's the fear of if somethin to our drinking water, to the Gr and I'm obviously a big nature p (Jennifer laughs) I love nature so much.

And I'm all about like protecting the water and the Great Lakes and I spent years writing as a stay at home mom, and I'd never painted before, ever in my life.

And the opportunity to paint on literally fell on my car.

(Jennifer laughs) I parked my car under a maple tree and it was in the fall.

And when I came outside, my car was blanketed with maple So the opportunity was right the So I picked one up and I remembe thinking this is flawless.

And I thought, I'm going try it.

I'm going to just try painting.

And I honestly didn't even have any good paint.

I didn't have a good paint brush And I realized for the first tim that I'm really drawn to landsca and it was a learning process fo (chill guitar music) I can collect 100 leaves and out of all those leaves, only 50 of them are going to be So I bring them home.

I soak 'em in the sink in water, and then I dry them with paper t and I press the leaves.

I have a really good friend who made me this really great le (chill guitar music) I wait the three weeks, and then when they're completely dry and I'm happy with it, I'll take it outside and I'll sp with like a protective spray.

And then, then it's ready to be (chill guitar music) I have always loved nature.

And the idea of bringing nature it's almost nostalgic, a leaf, you know, fallen from the earth.

And so you're collecting a leaf that has died and you're giving it life.

It's being reborn in the form of a painting that will be forever preserved in someone's wall.

And I love that idea.

So once I released this inner ar that I obviously always had, but didn't know it until recentl I started viewing everything dif and I'm obsessed with trees.

I love birch trees.

(chill guitar music) The initial is to look at something and that inspires me, but by the time I'm done with it I have gone off in a totally different direction.

I've added my own twist to it.

And it's all just almost like beginner's luck.

(chill guitar music) Every day I'm inspired I want to or I want to write, I'm writing another story.

That's like creativity overload.

There's so much I want to do.

I started doing bottles, you kno I ran out of leaves and then I t "Well let me paint on a bottle, make it one continuous scene around the bottle."

My friend gave me the idea to tu into incense bottles.

It works, it makes a really nice incense bottle.

It's also a bottle that you would have just thrown away.

So the same concept, you're repurposing it.

Recycling a bottle.

(Jennifer laughs) (chill guitar music) Pallet wood is really popular ri and I remember thinking like, "I wonder if I could paint on ca something that would look like pallet wood."

And so I took the canvas and I made a stencil and I painted it and worked on it all afternoon.

And when it was done, it actually did look like painted pallet wood.

I think somewhere with being a mom and a parent, I dropped the idea of I can't, I, when, I used to maybe look at and "oh, I could never do that" but now I have this attitude of "hey, all I can do is try".

I dunno if I can do it, but I'm going to try it.

And so I did, and it's one of the things I'm most proud of out of all the things I've ever I, it took me like 30 some hours to do and tons of paint.

I'm still in the beginning stage where if you really liked my art to want to hang it in your house I'm just thrilled to pieces.

More than anything I think I'm really grateful that I was able to be a stay at because that gave me the extra t And this was a discovery for me.

I don't ever wanna quit painting I wanna keep going and pursuing I'm just so grateful that I have I would definitely like to keep and I'd like to get my books pub And I would like to really get my name out there.

I'd just be happy to have more than 100 followers on Instagram to be honest.

(Jennifer laughs) (chill guitar music) - To see more of Lanzilotti's cr check out her website, fallenlea And now let's take a look at this week's art quiz.

According to Lombardo Homes, the most popular Halloween decor in America are skeletons.

According to the same study, what is the most popular Halloween decoration in Nevada?

Is the answer A, Skeletons B, Bats C, Spiders or D, Ghosts.

Stay tuned for the answer.

(chill jazzy music) In this segment, we head to Flor to meet costume designer, Brian "Twohorns".

Inspired by the world of science he invents futuristic wearable a that is distinct and daring.

(sci-fi music) - My name's Brian "Twohorns", and I'm from Tampa, Florida.

(sci-fi music) I design and create original sci-fi characters, costumes, and props.

Well, I started with cardboard when I was 15.

I was just was tired of Hallowee they were just garbage the kind you'd buy at stores or just, they were cheap and poorly made mass produced st and I was like, "I can do better than this."

So I started with cardboard and worked my way up to better m I only did it once a year.

At first until about 2012 when I started doing it like ful and like, I started making like four or five suits a year.

I started with respirators.

I started selling custom respira and they were just little sci-fi designs and stuff.

And I post- started posting them on the internet.

I would take my own photography and stuff like that.

And people were like, "how can I where do you get?"

So I started, so I opened the Et It also helps I take good photog so images are a huge, important, like the quality of i are important to, you know, how it reaches because everyone wants to see high quality images of things when they're scrolling through Instagram or whatever.

So you have to keep up with image quality for sure.

My pieces have been used in a lot of indie films, some commercials, and most recently an earth game music video.

My whole ethos is to pay homage to the God of practical effects, which is all things practical ef in movies and TV shows and everything like that.

Everything CGI and I want to bri more practical effects to this u I want to bring more realistic robot costumes and, you know, things that you can do with CGI, but are much more satisfying to watch the actual 'cause you can definitely tell, you can always tell.

Practical effects will always have a place.

(sci-fi music) Yeah, it's a little bit visionar It's like there's a multitude of landscapes and surreal concepts going on through my head, and I'm dragging this ethereal concept into reality.

A lot of times it's the, I've got these designs floating around in my head and half the time they're not even on a paper, I just kind of drag them down and start making them.

(sci-fi music) I guess, my own unique style.

I wouldn't say like I'm better or more special than anyone else, I just, I, you everyone when they hone their own specific, I guess, creative energy, like you see so many different styles of art, like you just gotta follow your own kind of passion.

(sci-fi music) I guess what makes me different from other artists is that I'm doing a lot of futuristic cyberpunk designs that are not really in, in tune with like the utilitaria that you see in a lot of movies.

It's really wild and feathers and LEDs everywhere.

And like just lots of energetic that I'm not really, not really sure where it's going, but it looks cool so.

(Brian laughs) First I usually get a, I'll start with the face.

Usually I'll start with the face I get a mannequin head, which is appropriately sized and I'll just build off that, and (grins) yeah, I mean like I have mannequ for the rest of the armor, so.

Well, I mean, I do everything from just cutting, shaping, heat I use superglue, Barge contact c all sorts of other thermal plastics and little, I just, there's there's so much that goe lots of just, you know, gluing and cutting, essentially.

It's all, it's all free handed.

I use the laser cutter for preci little detailed parts that I can't do by hand.

And I'll go over and design those in a digital format and just batch cut them usually for small parts and little tiny details.

(sci-fi music) I use vinyl foam, Cut-Tex, PETG, all the kinds of thermoplastics, metal tubing, leathers, polypro webbing among just a list of other thing it's just anything I can warp and create to my own whim.

(sci-fi music) I just want to be happy and sust like I've been doing now, but I want to be able to delegat more work to other people and work on larger scale projects like art installations.

And one of my main goals is to b the part of my world that I have in my head into experiences for people, so when they walk up to it, there's like performers and big and things like that, like that can give just a vibe of different world.

(sci-fi music) - See more on Instagram @twohorn And now let's review this week's According to Lombardo Homes, the most popular Halloween decor in America are skeletons.

According to the same study, what is the most popular Halloween decoration in Nevada?

Is the answer A, Skeletons B, Bats C, Spiders or D, Ghosts.

And the answer is B, Bats.

This next segment is not for the faint of heart.

Moulage is the art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training emergency response teams.

These realistic looking wounds are made by hand requiring talent and expertise.

Let's meet an artist in Carson C who makes these realistic and so gruesome works of art.

- So the stuff I do, injury simulation makeup can look really gory, but it's all fake.

Everything you're about to see is completely fake, fake blood and guts, so enjoy.

(chill guitar music) - [Lynzie] My name is Lynzie Rue and I do injury simulation makeu I own a company called Image Per here out of Carson City, Nevada.

Moulage, is actually a French te meaning to make the mold of, but in nowadays terms, it means to make someone look horribly injured.

So it's injury simulation makeup Image Perspectives was born out of the need for realistic injury simulation back about 32 or more years ago.

My grandmother started the busin and she worked for the Nevada Di of Emergency Management.

And she was the one who put on all the disaster exercises.

And they were putting together these people that were wearing like this wound on their arm, that was just a strap on a piece of plastic and it never looked realistic.

And so my grandmother said, "Everybody's not getting any tra They're laughing at these injuri It's a total joke to them.

Let's do something better than t Let's actually evoke some emotio and get some actual training inv She was trained in theatrical ma when she was in high school and and she got into the blood guts and gore stuff and just kind of developed Image Perspectives.

We were the first of its kind.

And we have since spawned all of the kind of stuff that's been happening around the Moulage industry.

(chill guitar music) There is training involved when an actual disaster happens And in order to have our first r and our emergency personnel go o and not be shell shocked, for in it really helps to kind of detra and prepare them for what to do if the real thing were to happen People are realizing that it's worth their while to actually go out and do this M and make people look like their realistic injuries are applied to real people instead of just on a piece of pa or a card that says I'm injured.

(chill guitar music) (creepy music) The other side to making things look as realistic as possible in this Moulage business is there's definitely a Halloween kind of thing.

I definitely take into play a character makeup, making every, anything from Frankenstein to a fantasy, little fairy, kind of a character or something like that I would say that my specialty, when it comes to doing character and that kind of stuff is defini on the orient of the blood guts I love zombies.

Everybody loves zombies, it's definitely a thing.

And I can make a mean zombie.

(Lynzie laughs) I like to do the stuff that is a little bit more in depth and has some, some feel that's, that's kinda the little That's kinda my thing.

(grins) (creepy music) The products that I use is called effects gel or gel effects, it's the same kind of thing, which is actually a liquid when and a solid when it's cooled dow When we go to pre-make an injury simulation wound, we will (indistinct) out the ski let that solidify over time, maybe about a minute to a day.

And then we'll cut out the cente make the wound itself in various different ways, depending on the kind of wound we're actually looking for.

And we'll apply the wound piece to our person and stage blood and let them go (creepy music) So when I do a realistic burn si I'll take the effects gel while I'll be able to scoop it up more and then stick it on the skin and do this tapping motion.

And then we let that solidify.

And then we put another layer of effects gel that's a different color like bl in the center of that and wipe i and it looks like a realistic bu (creepy music) And it really feels like realist When you put it on and you do a really nice skin edge, then you can powder it.

And it feels just like baby butt (grins) That's just like real skin.

(creepy music) (chill guitar music) What I get out of doing my Moula is to know that I'm helping peop (chill guitar music) I've known, especially from things like 911 and disasters that happen around We're very lucky to be a backend part of that and kind of provoke, at least th and this feeling of, "hey guys, this stuff happens, let's do something about this."

And I feel very lucky to be able to be a part of that in, in a holistic kind of feelin (chill guitar music) My main inspiration for my injuries simulation stuff is definitely my grandmother, her starting the business 32 yea inspired everyone around her and obviously myself as growing 'cause I used to count inventory of bottles of blood when I was l and she'd pay me 5 bucks and it was awesome 'cause I didn't know any better.

But growing up with that, my inspiration was my grandmother and my mom.

Being able to work with them so and grow up with this has defini very heartfelt and I'm very prou to have been able to do that.

(inspirational music) - To learn more visit moulage.ne And that wraps it up for this edition of arteffects.

For more arts and culture, or to watch past episodes visit pbsreno.org/arteffects.

Until next week, I'm Beth MacMil Thanks for watching.

- Funding for arteffects is made possible by Sandy Raffealli The June S. Wisham Estate Carol Franc Buck Merrill and Lebo Newman Heidemarie Rochlin Meg and Dillard Myers the annual contributions of PBS Reno members.

And by.

(chill jazzy music)