Thursday 29 October 2020

Rain' s Thursday Art Date - Halloween

Hi Everybody!

Rain's theme today is Halloween, so I dug out some of my Halloween pieces from previous years - enjoy!

A Halloween album made some years back:

These 2 pictures are from Pexels:

And 2 poems if you like poetry:

Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

(from Macbeth)

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt and toe of frog,

Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,

Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon's blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

"This living hand, now warm and capable"

BY JOHN KEATS

This living hand, now warm and capable

Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold

And in the icy silence of the tomb,

So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights

That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood

So in my veins red life might stream again,

And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here it is–

I hold it towards you.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Midweek Post

Hi Everybody!

I have been having fun this past week with the course from Laly Mille. In the first lesson we made a collage, which was just loosely stuck down so that we could have a mood board as inspiration and still use some of the pieces in our third lesson:

Our second lesson was to make a series of small paintings. Laly's were all abstract, I added 'my' eye to each of them. They are each 6" x 6":

The third lesson was to make a collage on a painted canvas. My canvas is 18" x 18". I did not paint over the top of the canvas as Laly did, but added lots of hidden pieces between the canvas and the upper layer, And I had great fun making it!