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!