Hauntober day 21, Garden. This painting was done from life sitting on a folding chair in a local greenhouse! The people who worked there were very nice, and kept checking on my progress. It’s not exactly a witch’s garden, perhaps, but I’m assuming any witch would be able to find something she wanted to buy if she wandered through there. The sphere in the center is a fountain, and it had water bubbling up from the top and trickling down around it the whole time. So pretty.
Hauntober Day 19: Familiar.
This was a bit of a mix-up of fairy and witchy. If you see a hint of Mary Cicely Barker’s flower-fairy style here, you are correct, I am a huge fan of her work. The cat, I have to say, was an excellent familiar! Sunny was adopted from an animal shelter fostering arrangement at the age of 10 weeks. He was living with his littermates, all of whom were darker-colored, in a large cage in a basement. When we met the lady who was fostering and saw the kittens running wildly around the basement, I was a little concerned about how hard it would be to tame him. I grabbed him as he zoomed by and handed him carefully to my daughter, who was 4. I cautioned her to let him go if he struggled or got scratchy. Instead, he dissolved into a puddle of orange goo and snuggled in her arms, purring like a chainsaw. Effort spent socializing: zero. As it turned out he was quite an intelligent cat. Somehow he seemed to have an intuitive understanding of being adopted and finding a forever home. He was a fine friend to my daughter all the years of his life, and (aside from the tiny issue of stealing butter from the table) never did a thing wrong ever.
Happy Monday, everyone. I hope that you and I both accomplish something fulfilling this week. *Hugs*
Hauntober day 17: Owl. This painting was a gift, just a little piece 5 x 7 inches. I learned that artists who specialize in painting birds have a lot of patience - feathers are quite difficult! Probably something that I’d get accustomed to in time if I did a lot of it, but a real challenge nonetheless.
Hauntober day 16: Moth
Moth? MOTH! MothmothmOthMOthmothMOTH!
I am very enthusiastic about MOTH.
Hauntober day 12, black cat. I have a black cat painting, but honestly I like this simple drawing more. I gave the original to a friend of mine who works as a pension actuary. It’s applicable to a variety of workplaces, I know that!
Hauntober #10 Forest This beautiful forest is in Poland, photo credit to KrisKeleris on DeviantArt. I switched it around left-to-right, because it would work better for a right-hander painted that way.
10/10/20
Hauntober #9, stars. Just a small and speckly piece done for fun.
10/09/20
Hauntober #7, haunted. This painting came about because I toured this building after its renovation, and the amazing woodwork (lovingly restored) gave me ballet-studio vibes. Standing in the empty room with sunlight flooding in, I could picture a young dance student and her ?
Could be a teacher, her mother, a ballerina from history, or anyone else you decide on. Whenever I showed this piece in a gallery or art event, I’d ask the people who responded to it what identity they thought the ghost had. Heard all different stories, which made me happy. One lady looked at it, covered her mouth with her hand, and rushed out nearly in tears. Never found out why, but I was sorry to have given her an unhappy moment.
[ID: a five-yr-old girl in a black leotard and pink tutu practices a ballet position in a brightly sunny room with beautiful wooden paneling. Standing just behind the young ballerina is the ghost of an adult ballerina in the same position, her hand touching the girl’s.]
Hauntober #6 fog. Photo credit to my daughter; she snapped it from the back of the school bus Fall of ‘19 and allowed me to paint it.
Hauntober Day 5, Moonlight
Painted not-exactly plein air, but from direct observation and memory. I stood in the yard watching the moon that night and making mental notes about painting, then painted it first thing the next morning.
I forgot about Hauntober. I can do a few days, but not all.
#1, pumpkin
#2, leaves
#4 apples (without candy, sadly)
