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My first entry into this years Fright-Fall art challenge! Today's prompt is "Rot", and I took the chance to play with a bunch of duplitone brushes by RetroSupplyCo.
Spirit Box
Today’s prompt for Fright-Fall is “Spirit box”! I do know what a spirit box actually is, but I thought this was cuter!
Today's prompt was "Creepy Crawly", so I decided to make something that was also beautiful.
Intruder
Oh, I am SO stoked about this one! This prompt is “Intruder”, and I loved the idea of a little cat sneaking “in-tru-de window” 😆 I spent ages on getting the shadong roght, and I don’t know if you can see it but I also included reflections in the window glass, which I’m reasonably proud of as well!
This little fellow is available on my RedBubble for anyone that wants to let them in ☺️
Intruder
Oh, I am SO stoked about this one! This prompt is “Intruder”, and I loved the idea of a little cat sneaking “in-tru-de window” 😆 I spent ages on getting the shadong roght, and I don’t know if you can see it but I also included reflections in the window glass, which I’m reasonably proud of as well!
This little fellow is available on my RedBubble for anyone that wants to let them in ☺️
Coven
“ Tea was an amazingly useful thing. It gave you the excuse to talk to anyone.”
-Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
While these aren’t the witches of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, they understand the importance if tea to any gathering they have!
Jester
Today’s prompt is Jester! I tried to dk a full-body one but my akill level was nowhere near rhat. So instead I went with a Venetian mask that looks like a jester! For this one, I played with a risograph style brush and appropriately set layers, using a newsprint texture from Retro Supply Co, as well as their brushes and stamps, particularly the paper scuff and fold stamps, to give it that worn paper look.
Infected
The next prompt for Fright-Fall was “Infected” and I toyed with a Petri dish design, but couldn’t make one I liked, so went for something more mid-century and abstract. I’m still very much trying to get the hang of the abstract backgrounds of the time, I’m not very good at them yet!
I might have a play with turning this one into a repeating pattern and then adding it to RedBubble; we’ll see.
Funeral
Today’s prompt was “Funeral”, and I had acquired some new linocut brushes which I thought would be interesting to play with. I liked the idea of silhouettes but wasn’t sure what to do with the background and foreground. I wanted the main figures to stand out but didn’t want the space around them to be blank, nor did I have the energy to really do a great deal stroke-by-stroke. So this is the end result!
Today's prompt is "Beast"! And what better beast than the Questing Beast, from Arthurian legend! I know it's most likely someone describing a giraffe, but this was more fun to create XD