In honor of the annual Soiree coming up, I’m going to be your typical artist & make a post about the show… about a year later. Eeek. I promise to be better!
So here it is the BIG piece I made last year;
Join us this year for the 3rd year of spooky, creepy, beautiful art, drinks, costumes, and more! Details below on the sick poster by Craig Horky.
It’s an evening you can’t beat, in my opinion.
I saved this window pane from my aunts barn, along with a couple others. This was the first one I painted on. I wanted to represent day going into the night of darkness, then while researching ‘creepy romance’ I came across this poem by Cosondra Sjostrom. It fit perfectly. ‘Your absence would release all of the darkness inside of me’
‘Princess’ A Moment in Time. I always like to mix it up a little, and add a collage or some other form of mixed media that isn’t paint. I found these bits and pieces from the array of magazines I save, first finding the night piece on top, and then the girl, everything kind of flowed together after that. I love how it turned out.
‘The Witch’ the first piece I painted for the show, I love the female figure. I’m not sure what struck this inspiration, I knew I wanted a witch, and just ran with it.
‘Her Compass’ while researching what kind of witch I wanted to paint, I came across across a witches compass, I thought it was super creepy, and cool. I also saved this old frame from my aunts collection of stuff she didn’t want, and it fit perfectly.
Halloween is easily my favorite holiday, I was beyond excited when I was contacted to do this show, and it was a great turn out, with impressive creepy art. I just hope every year there happens to be a show I can be a part of. I love seeing what this side brings out of artists.
special thanks to Kaiti McDonough for all her hard work in making this happen, and to Grand River brewery for hosting.
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