Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 31

Trick or Treat 1971 

 

Have a safe and spooky Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 30

Trick or Treat!  Sketchbook doodle in Indian ink.

  30 days down ~ 1 more day till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 29

I ran across this little animation I made back in good old 1999.  A knockoff of that old cat clock you see now and then.  Anyhow ... I thought it was cute.

Here are a couple more:



I used to love playing around with Bryce 3D back then.

29 days down ~ 2 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 28

Another of my Halloween postcards made for a swap.  Ink and colored pencils.

28 days down ~ 3 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 27

ATC (artist trading card) Ink and colored pencil.  Made for a Halloween swap in one of my art trading groups.

27 days down ~ 4 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 26

ATC (artist trading card) featuring hand painted paper collage background with cut paper ravens and machine stitched border.

26 days down ~ 5 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 25

Wacky Bat ATC (artist trading card) - Indian ink and colored pencils. 

25 days down ~ 6 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 24

Skeleton Saga: (my new neighbors)

I first noticed the skeletons hanging out on their screened porch at the end of September.   I snapped this photo during the first week of October, while they were doing stretches and getting limbered up.

When I happened by in mid-October, I caught this unusual sight.  It appears that skeleton2 had performed some type of prank on skeleton1, giving him an extra head.  Now skeleton2 seems to be bored by the whole thing.

As revenge for the prank, skeleton1 tossed skeleton2 into the spider web.   More to come?  Maybe.

(The little commenter is one of my hand made skeleton finger puppets.)                       

24 days down ~ 7 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 23

Another postcard I made for a swap.  Trick or Treat!  This one has a little pop out witch which is triggered by opening the door.  Drawn with ink and colored pencils. The candy bowl has a splash of multi-colored glitter glue.

23 days down ~ 8 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 22

Happy Octoween!  Pen and ink in my sketchbook with a splash of digital color.

22 days down ~ 9 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 21

Pen and ink with watercolor. From 2004.

21 days down ~ 10 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 20

An oldie, but a goodie.  I made this postcard for a swap back in 2006.  Pen and colored pencil.

  20 days down ~ 11 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 19

Another of my ATCs (artist trading cards).  Drawn in ink, colored with pencils.
 

19 days down ~ 12 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 18

I happened to catch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" the other day. I hadn't seen it for several years. As always, it brought back some childhood memories. I went to the L5P Halloween Festival today.  Fun, Zestos Ice Cream, lots of walking ... I didn't take many photos, but did take some shots of these store windows:

18 days down ~ 13 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 17

Oooooooooo .... Spooky tree

I'm planning on going to the L5P Halloween Festival tomorrow, so I should have some interesting pictures to share.

17 days down ~ 14 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 16

ATC (artist trading card) doodled and colored with Faber Castell Indian ink pens.

16 days down ~ 15 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 15

I was going to post something about The Walking Dead ... but ya' know mummies are walking dead, too.

Anyhow, I did grab a Walking Dead Scratcher last week:

The commercial advertisement for the tickets is pretty funny.  The girl breaks off a walker's finger to use to scratch off her ticket.  hee-hee.

I am enjoying the new season of "The Walking Dead"...
"Termite Stew is made of PEOPLE!"

15 days down ~ 16 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 14

This is a page from a book I am altering.  I selected the words "buzzard" and "vulture" from the page and did a quick pen drawing. 

It's not quite finished yet ...I think perhaps I will look for a bit of "found poetry" in the text of the page and spice up the drawing a bit. 

14 days down ~ 17 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 13

Hoo goes there? 
Today, something a bit different.

I walk around the neighborhood quite a bit, and have come to appreciate the variety of statuary I happen across.  Gnomes, cats, dogs, many many lions, and GARGOYLES!

So, today ... a little photo show of stone gargoyles that I have discovered on my walks.

slightly growling gargoyle

caution, I bite - gargoyle

dog-faced gargoyle

goofy gargoyle

deep in thought gargoyle

I hoped you enjoyed the gargoyle photos!

13 days down ~ 18 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 12

A "Halloween Mojo" black cat postcard I made awhile back ... pen and colored pencil.  I have been fighting headaches ... so I haven't been up to making new art today. 

My Halloween fun today :  a little spider has been stalking me around the apartment.  It's amazing how far and how fast he's traveling.  He is the creepy kind - he has big pincers on his front legs and no web for him, he just wanders around.

12 days down ~ 19 more days till Halloween! 

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 11

I loved watching Saturday horror flicks when I was a kid, so I was delighted when I woke up this morning to discover that the 1958 movie, "The Blob" was about to air.

I had a nice lazy Saturday morning and enjoyed the movie.

The images shown here are a bit of my own BLOB inspired digital art. 

11 days down ~ 20 more days till Halloween! 

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 10

Here are some ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) that I made for a swap back in 2008.  I had a lot of fun with these. 

10 days down ~ 21 more days till Halloween! 

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 9

I have been grabbed by the "tentacles of death" and pulled into "The Simpsons Tapped Out" game's Halloween update.  Yikes!  Need donuts now!  It's far too easy to get obsessed with collecting characters and objects ... especially if they are "limited edition".  This update has me squishing aliens and trick or treating like there is no tomorrow!

Above is part of a page from one of my old sketchbooks, with a mishmash of characters and doodles.  I'm pretty sure the monster with the tentacles is based on something from an old Treehouse of Horror comic.  Pen and ink - sometime before 2005.

9 days down ~ 22 more days till Halloween! 

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 8

A quick little sugar skull I doodled last night.

So far, so good ... I'm pretty proud of myself for actually making it through 8 days of posting Halloween art (my last record was 6 days in a row!).  ha-ha!  I sure hope that the next 23 days go as smoothly as the first 8.

I picked up some Halloween candy this morning.  I never get any trick or treaters, but each year I dig out all of my Halloween, spooky, or odd themed games (board games, card games, Wii Spooky mini golf, etc...) and play a weekend marathon for candy and prizes with my sweetie.

I have a pretty good collection of Halloween, spooky, or odd themed games, including a few Goosebumps games, a couple of Haunted house games, 1313 Deadend Drive, Labyrinth, and even a custom Halloween art set of "Old Maid" that I traded some handmade puppets to get. One of my favorite odd games is "Cosmic Cows ". It is a simple Yahtzee style board game with dice, aliens and cows. Simple to set-up, it's an easy to play 2 person game.

8 days down ~ 23 more days till Halloween! 

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 7

Here's another one of my ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) from the Halloween swap. 

This happy witch was drawn with Indian ink pens and colored pencils.

Her lovely shade of green skin reminds me of "the Ol' Family Truckster" station wagon from the movie "National Lampoon's Vacation", which happened to drive past me this morning as I was heading out to drop off some mail.

Had a good chuckle when I saw it ... I wasn't too surprised, as they are filming a new version of "Vacation" just a few houses down the street from me.  


7 days down ~ 24 more days till Halloween! 

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 6

I didn't have any pumpkins handy for carving. So over the weekend
I made this little Jack o'range.

Reminds me a bit of this little pumpkin headed boy I made for a Halloween ATC (Artrist Trading Card) swap in one of my art groups awhile back.

Hope you're having a spooktacular October so far!

  6 days down ~ 25 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 5

After mentioning "The Little Shop of Horrors" the other day, I decided to pull out my old dvd and watch it again.

I forgot how many funny and bizarre characters were in the film.  I had a good laugh and enjoyed myself.

Afterwards ... I checked on my own carnivorous plants ...

5 days down ~ 26 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 4

Here's an oldie but a goodie ... I found this in one of my older sketchbooks from 2003. 

This drawing inspired my idea for a "haunted house book".  The book itself being a haunted house with each page a "room" designed by a different artist.   As you turn the pages, you travel through the haunted house visiting all types of rooms from attic to basement, kitchen to playroom, even including a garden and solarium, with the path leaving you in the graveyard.

I hosted the project in one of my online art groups and each artist sent me their pages (20 pages of the room they designed).  I bound the pages into books with black coil binding and finished them off with attached fibers and a skeleton key.  The pages are embellished with moving parts, pull outs, tags and whatever the artists dreamed up.  Each artist received a completed book in return - with original art by all of the artists.

I enjoyed this project so much.  Each year I pull out my book and visit the old haunted house.  You can see a bit more about the project on my hobby site here: http://hobbyloco.com/chunky_haunted.html

4 days down ~ 27 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 3

I doodled this little mutant frog last night.  I will do some digital coloring and be back later today to add the spiffed up version.

I have a trip to the dentist today ... (how's that for some October frights).   Maybe I'll just close my eyes and think about the Little Shop of Horrors (or the remake Little Shop of Horrors).  I love them both!

**LATER IN THE DAY**
Here I am back with my mutant froggy ... and I survived the dentist!  I am all set ... So,

Bring on the Halloween Candy!!

3 days down ~ 28 more days till Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween : 31 Days of Halloween Art : Day 2

Doodled with Faber Castell Indian ink pens in one of my sketchbooks.

I have always been drawn to masks - especially hand carved wooden masks from around the world.  I hope to have my walls filled with them some day.

On another note related to masks:
I was handed this card yesterday.

I can't quite figure out what I am looking at, though.
I was thinking grasshopper ... or maybe some kind of mutant bunny.

I guess I would have to go to "Daddy O's Tattoo a go go" to find out.

2 days down ~ 29 more days till Halloween!