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Matt Fagan Art
@mattfaganart.bsky.social
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Pop Art for dorks, fiction for brainiacs and liars, Halloween costumes, and a dog named Gus.
More gay and leftist the older I get.

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Gus had a minor surgical procedure a couple of weeks ago, to remove the tip of his right ear - which had an old hunk of scar tissue on it, that wouldn't stop bleeding. Now he's almost healed, and adorably asymmetrical!

#dogsky #hound #rescuedog
Picture of our hound Gus. His right ear is shorter than his left.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Baking pies at the end of the world.

#pie
A pie I just made. Mostly peach with a lattice top.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Good morning, sunshine.

#sourdough
A loaf od sourdough I baked this morning, slashed with a primitive rising sun motif
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Gus is pretty sure there's a golden autumn day around here somewhere.
Gus and Matt in the back yard, surrounded by autumn leaves
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Halloween has come and gone, and I am left with a great big mask and no place to put it. I wish I had a second studio, to store the stuff I made in the first studio.

Or just a bigger studio, I guess.

#Halloween #artist #mask #foamcarving #art #cosplay
A bearded nerd with a flat cap and glasses, cheek to cheek with a huge red and white dog mask.
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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If there was a contest, we would have won.

#Halloween #costume #cosplay #halloweencostume #dogmask #maskmaker #mask
Me in my Hot Rod costume, and Bill in his silver and purple wizard costume.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Decided I needed dog toes on my costume shoes. Happy Halloween!

#wip #art #Halloween #costumes #artist #cosplay #costumeideas #dogshoes
The shoes for my Halloween costume which are built onto a pair of knockoff Chuck Taylors. They have "dog toes" on the ends, sculpted in foam, covered in red fleece. There are yellow claws made from a raincoat. The shoes for my Halloween costume which are built onto a pair of knockoff Chuck Taylors. They have "dog toes" on the ends, sculpted in foam, covered in red fleece. There are yellow claws made from a raincoat.
October 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Hot Rod is stranded in this backward dimension, but he's making the best of it. Happy Halloween!

#Halloween #cosplay #halloweencostume #costumeideas #dogsky #dogcostume
Matt wearing his nearly complete HOT ROD costume, a red and white dog in fancy gear with a cape and everything!
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The HOT ROD costume is nearly ready! This dimension-hopping dog is here to tear through the fabric of the Halloween continuum!

#costumeideas #cosplay #Halloween #halloweencostume #hotrod #dogsky #costumes
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Hopefully this isn't the last Halloween we ever get, but if it is, I'm going to really enjoy wearing my Hot Rod mask... which is almost finished.

#hotrod #maskmaker #mask #Halloween #halloweencostume #cosplay #costumeideas #dogmask #art #artist #wip #foamsculpture #foamcarving #dogsky
My Halloween mask, a work in progress. A large red and white dog head, sculpted in Styrofoam and covered with fleece. Here I am showing off thr recently-painted nose. My Halloween mask, a work in progress. A large red and white dog head, sculpted in Styrofoam and covered with fleece. Here I am showing off thr recently-painted nose.
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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They're weirdly inspiring! 🤣
A mask inspired by Mother's circus animal cookies, and Hellraiser!
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Old Beistle paper decorations are the best! I've been painting a monster inspired by these cats for a while now, most recently as a sideshow banner!
A sideshow banner inspired by the cats from paper Beistle halloween decorations. With tentacles!
October 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This fabulous CIRCUS ELEPHANT, inspired by the delicious aesthetic of Mother's frosted animal cookies, was my Halloween costume in 2022. I was working really hard on another project, so this was my version of half-assing Halloween because I was too busy.

#halloween #costumeideas #animalcookies
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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SHANNON is a sasquatch, a waitress, and a single mother doing her best in a difficult world. She was one of my favorite costumes ever, designed around this paper mache mask which I had made for a show in 2021.

#halloween #costumeideas #halloweencostume #bigfoot #sasquatch #waitress
Me in full Shannon costume for Halloween in 2021. Her waitress uniform has a pink satin skirt, and a turquoise polo shirt with pink princess sleeves that match the skirt. There is a little white apron which matches a neckerchief. She also has furry brown arms and legs, and big toes bursting out of her shoes. The "GUEST CHECK" pad is actually a hand painted block of plywood, with a wipe-clean surface on top. That way I can write on it with a dry erase marker. Me in full Shannon costume for Halloween in 2021. Her waitress uniform has a pink satin skirt, and a turquoise polo shirt with pink princess sleeves that match the skirt. There is a little white apron which matches a neckerchief. She also has furry brown arms and greenish fingers that match her face. Shannon also wears big dangly earrings that look like glittery gold chicken drumsticks. She is sitting down, probably taking a break, with a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
October 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
John Waters with Divine
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My flappy ears are so adorable that I might have to constantly dance on Halloween, just to keep things moving.

#halloween #wip #artist #art #costume #costumeideas #dogmask #hotrod #lgbtqartist #mask #maskmaker #foamcarving
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Progress report: Hot Rod has a head and hands now. Halloween's gonna get ya!

#halloween #wip #artist #art #costume #costumeideas #dogmask #hotrod #lgbtqartist #mask #maskmaker #foamcarving
October 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Halloween is shaping up. The new version of Hot Rod, the interdimensional race-car driving dog, is a much larger mask than his previous incarnation but it's also very lightweight.

#costume #costumeideas #halloweencostume #wip #art #artist #maskmaker #Halloween
Wearing my work in progress: a red and white dog mask carved from Styrofoam, covered in fleece.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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20 years ago, I made this Impressionist Joker costume.

This was a very early mask experiment, and I thought it kind of looked like the Joker, from Batman. So I thought, "If this WAS the Joker, what would the rest of his costume look like?"

This was the result.

#costume #halloween #costumeideas
Picture of me in my Impressionist Joker costume form 20 years ago
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It's a VERY different process from making masks out of paper mache, but I think she turned out pretty well for a first attempt!
blocks of foam that will one day become a bigfoot Picture of me, frowning, holding a similar frown in my hand Naked foam mask of Shannon the sasquatch, under construction
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Last year, I revived the epic SHANNON costume. The single mother/sasquatch/waitress debuted a brand new mask in 2024; I taught myself to carve foam so I could make the mask both larger and lighter (for later display on a mannequin)

#costumeideas #halloween #costume #cosplay #bigfoot #sasquatch
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I love this picture Bill took while I was working on my Halloween mask

Not pictured: my Halloween mask
A picture Bill took of me working on a Halloween mask
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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The year of the Pie Man was also the first time that Bill dressed up with me for Halloween! We took first prize at the local contest, and repeated that win for two more years before the venue closed down during Covid!
Bill and I in our Halloween costumes Photo of our masks (the pie man and the clown) with the envelope containing our first prize!
October 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This was also the very first year that my partner played dressup with me for Halloween! We won first prize at the local costume contest. We would also take first prize the next two years, before the venue shuttered during Covid.
Bill and I wearing our 2017 Halloween costumes Our first prize costume contest envelope, with our masks (the pie man and the clown)
October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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BLUEBERRY LEATHERFACE wears a slice of pie as a gruesome mask, is splattered with berries and juice, and adorned with torture instruments like scoops and pie servers.

In this clip, he tortures a captive pie in a recreation of a scene from Reservoir Dogs.

#halloween #costumeideas #costume #resdogs
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM