More Photos from My Halloween Journal

 As always, I am running behind.  I wanted to post some more pictures from my handmade Halloween Journal.   I painted pictures from memory and also tried my hand at creating pictures generated from some journaling prompts from various websites.  I generally prefer making sculptures in paper mâché, but I am trying to expand my horizons by making paintings.

This is a picture of Zoltar the Magnificent, an animatronic fortune telling machine that was at Ocean View Amusement Park.  I went there often as a child.  You inserted your money, and that started the fortune telling process.  The figure would move its hand and point to a card.  Then a printed fortune would pop out of a slot.  I wanted the painting to reflect late at night when a fog was rolling in.  The bright lights of the midway glowed in the fog. Fog rolling in off the ocean has stuck in my memory from when I was a child.  

This picture was created from one of the prompts for Halloween journaling.  Some mushrooms are bioluminescent.  They glow in the dark.  The type of mushrooms I painted are not one of the types that glow in the dark, but it made for a whimsical picture.  I liked the clouds and the depiction of the Milky Way.  The soft effect of the picture was created by using colored pencil and paint pastels. 

Another journaling suggestion was to paint autumn leaves.  I painted this picture of a dogwood tree that is in my front yard.  This is the view outside of my living room window.  Sometimes when I look at this photo it seems garishly bright, but it actually is the color of crimson that the tree turns in the fall.  

Despite feeling I am running a race; I am still trying to work on current projects.  I will be posting on that as soon as I get some pictures.  In the meantime, I will make a few more posts of the paintings in my Halloween Journal.  It was a lot of work to make so many paintings on a deadline, but I am glad that I stuck to it.  Check back next week for some more photos of the journaling project.