Halloween 2005

All the phantom's faces were found by selecting them from one of my photographs.

The sunset was today's as seen from our dining room.

(I'm cheating on the time - I want this one to be at the top of today's postings!)

Favourite Halloween postings

24 Halloween themed postings in no particular order. Some were not put up especially for Halloween.

1. Carve your own pumpkin!
   I don't know if there is any way to save it apart from a screen grab.



2. colouring outside the lines: jack-o-lantern art
   Andrea has more links to pumpkin sites



3. vitriolica webb's ite: how to confuse two small children



4. Mysterious Poodle Circus: Happy Halloween!



5. Ice-Cream Monster Toon Cafe: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



6. Ice-Cream Monster Toon Cafe: Minty's Halloween!
   Carved apples



7. c'est chic: hAPpY HaLLoWeEn ...



8. Back to Living in Paradise: Halloween 2004



9. Kelly Ink Studio's topical banner



10. Tony Sarrecchia's gruesome Happy Halloween
    Make sure you have sound on... and then click through...



11. Creative Blend: Happy Halloween!



12. Creative Blend: Creative Goodies-Halloween buckets!



13. Creative Blend: Illustration Friday - Cold



14. NellyNortay: Trick or Treats



15. anonyrrie: Illustration Friday - (un)Broken



16. Urban Nature: spider



17. Draw a witch competition



18. Boules de Neige: Remote



19. Crafty McGee: a halloween story



20. inkfinger: Bind Contour Friday 13



21. halloween swap: Halloween Inspiration
    Halloween eggs!



22. Aimee's Blog: Happy Halloween!!!



23. Boston and Beyond: Pumpkin
    An uncut pumpkin - beautiful photo.



24. Screamers: Halloween....
    Some trick or treaters!
    

Halloween Squash

Today I went out and took some photos with which to make a Halloween picture.

I decided that instead of a pumpkin I'd go for a squash....

Free Lily!

This is a plant that seeded itself. First bloom opened today 31 Oct 2005.

If its a lily its parent was a Stargazer Lily that came "free" from Thompson & Morgan, in other words I'd spent so much that I'd earnt it. Last year it came up and was just leaves. And I thought the same had happened again for this year until now, rather late in the season, this beautiful bloom has opened.

And this one really is free.

If its not a lily I'm not sure what it is.

A bit pink for Halloween...

Any suggestions for what to name it?

Giraffe and some strange birds

These are all Painter IX pictures - the giraffe was drawn following instructional diagrams from a book for children!



And this is a monk shape-shifting into a wise old raven.



And this is a strange wader that just appeared...

Chocolate and Chilli Tart?

Chocolate & Chilli Oil Tart from Paul Gayler's Vegetarian Cookbook. This has a walnut pastry and a filling with 1 t of chilli oil to spark up the chocolate.

I'm in the middle of making this rich tart (no relation to cheap tart).

So far I've substituted pecans for walnuts but otherwise stuck to the given ingredients.

This is something that I've been planning to make for almost 2 months but then I started blogging...

Raven eyes!

It seems to be the season for quizzes...



I have RAVEN EYES! (picture from the quiz site)

Positive Traits: Intellectual, Wise, Experienced, Honest, Trustworthy

Negative Traits: removed to protect the innocent...


Your eyes are the windows to your soul.
What type of eyes do you have?
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Which Peanuts character are you?

You are Schroeder!


Which Peanuts Character are You?
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I can't believe that... which neurosis is that then? Have they been reading my blog and just lurking?

And I'm married to

Playing with colours

This image came from looking at the colours of the Illawarra Flame Tree. Its the nearest I get to doing flower fairy pictures (I loved the flower fairies when I was little). In fact it felt more like a Robin Hood archetype as I was painting it.

My experinence of this plant comes from using the flower essence - its in the Australian Bush range - and the pictures I've seen.

Who do you see here?

Illustration Friday - Broken