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Matt Fagan Art
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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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We love this guy. He's a grumpy fun time, just like us.

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Gus: My Petco Love Story
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Good morning, sunshine.

#sourdough
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Gus is pretty sure there's a golden autumn day around here somewhere.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
If you want to learn how to make giant foam heads, I'm probably not the best teacher. But you can see what I did and learn from my mistakes on instructables.com, which is pretty cool I think.

#Halloween #instructables #diy #maskmaker #art #showandtell #cosplay #artist
Hot Rod Carved Foam Dog Mask
Hot Rod Carved Foam Dog Mask: The character of Hot Rod - an alien race-car driving dog from another dimension - was created for my Halloween costume seven years ago. The original version of that costu...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If there was a contest, we would have won.

#Halloween #costume #cosplay #halloweencostume #dogmask #maskmaker #mask
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Decided I needed dog toes on my costume shoes. Happy Halloween!

#wip #art #Halloween #costumes #artist #cosplay #costumeideas #dogshoes
October 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Hot Rod is stranded in this backward dimension, but he's making the best of it. Happy Halloween!

#Halloween #cosplay #halloweencostume #costumeideas #dogsky #dogcostume
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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
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
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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
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
October 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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
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
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
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
I love this picture Bill took while I was working on my Halloween mask

Not pictured: my Halloween mask
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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
The Grease Monkey and the Industrial Frog Prince were another fetching duo!

#halloween #costumeideas #halloweencostume #greasemonkey #costume #cosplay
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hot Rod & Moon Dog were a great pair of Halloween costumes! Hot Rod is a dog who is a race car driver from another dimension, who got stranded here after he broke through the dimensional barrier with the power of his awesome racing.

#halloween #costumeideas #halloweencostume #costume
October 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Unpopular opinion: all children are of the corn.
October 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
My final Halloween in Chicago was 2013, with this IMPRESSIONIST TWO-FACE costume. He had two faces stitched together, and I was gooey with blood. This whole outfit is still in my closet!

#halloween #costumeideas #twoface #halloweenostume #mask #maskmaker #costume #batman #batmanvillains
October 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
THE GREAT PUMPKIN, first version. My intention was to resonate somewhere between European royalty and Norse god. 2010 was a fabulous year to be amazing.

#halloween #costumeideas #greatpumpkin #halloweencostume #mask #maskmaker #costume
October 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM