Plugging along...

Here is my progress on the paintings. I am super excited to finish them up and get them (or at least prints of them) up in my etsy shop ASAP! I always have such a tough time letting go of the originals. I love making Halloween art. It is so much fun.

In these first two photos I worked on scraping on paint for the background with an old hotel room card.

After a layer of black and a crackle medium to finish off the background, I started working on the skin tones.

Next came the hair.

Then the facial features... fangs and all (on two of them.)

Then on to the clothes, hats and animals. I am still working the animals and the additional background stuff. 

It is fun to see the progression of the pieces. I hope you enjoyed it too!

I'm back!

Sorry for the long absence. I have been trying my best to not do that with my blog, but the end of summer/beginning of the school year had finally taken away all my time. Don't get me wrong... it was all for super fun vacations, exciting new school year stuff and birthday celebrations. My youngest just turned 4! Time has certainly gotten away from me.

BUT... now that I have fulfilled all my duties as a Party Thrower, Vacationer, Graphic Designer, and Volunteerer of many things, I have started 4 new paintings!! I am so jazzed about them. They have been sketches in my book for a while now and I am finally putting paint to canvas and IT FEELS SOOOOO GOOD!!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because it is such a fun time of year. It is fun to decorate for, create crafts and art for, and really enjoy the weather change after a long hot summer. It also happens to be my daughter's birthday. So I get a little giddy about it all.

Here are some photos of the beginning stages of my paintings.

 In the above photo I covered the canvas with black gesso and collaged old music paper. 

 I then sketched a general design for each one over the gesso so that I could plan out my next move.

After drawing them on, I used molding paste to build up areas of the pieces where I would like some definition. Since they are Halloween pieces I wanted to have their hats to have a little emphasis as well as a few other spots. 

I'll try to be good along the way to keep taking photos so you can see the process. I took a break this time because the molding paste will take about a day to dry because we are having an unusually rainy day. So, I hope to show you more in the next couple days so check back!