Trick or Treat? by Catharine

Pumpkin costume, scary version on my blog!

Halloween page from my first book.

This is the Halloween painting from my 1st book which came out in 2005. My style has certainly evolved in the last 6 years, hasn't it?

I signed up for both NaNoWriMo and PiBoIdMo this month. 1200 words on Nano so far. Meant to write this afternoon but a bunch of nieces and nephews showed up unexpectedly, so was playing with babies instead. Still need to open an idea file for PiBoIdMo, but it would be nice to have an idea to write down before I do that.

I am starting pages for my upcoming book (Fall 2010) which has a final art deadline of mid February. I also intend to keep up my daily doodle challenge. I have noticed there is more of an ease to my more involved pieces which I assume is from the daily routine. I like it.

I'll also try and post some of the prompts for this month. But as you can probably see I have a rather full palette already. Oh, I almost forgot, the SCBWI-MO annual fall confluence is next Saturday and I am going. They will be selecting and announcing the new illustrator liaison coordinator for the chapter. I tossed my hat in the ring. Wish me luck!

Favorite Halloween Character (Mummy) - sruble

I decided to do a favorite character that I like to draw. I love drawing simple ghosts like these from last week, but for this prompt I decided to do a mummy, which is also fun. This is a more traditional mummy than the ones I usually do, so I played with texture in the background and added the little dog.

Oh No!

Halloween Character

Another black & white for now ...( I'll try my hardest to get the last three illos watercolored up! ) ... this little Octopus and her sea star sidekick. ( ... this is my youngest daughter's costume this year ... her sister is going as a chinese dragon (I'm thinking Grace Lin's Year of the Rat may have had something to do with that choice) ... I tell you ... rivers, cherry trees, octopi, dragons .... thank goodness their Granny has the patience of a saint!) :)

Have a great Halloween everyone!! :)

Class Party

I know this is called "Watercolor" Wednesdays, but I just have been crazy busy lately, and haven't had the time to sit and paint. (I will try to paint soon though!) I have been trying to keep up though ... so here is my Class Party! I have two that I have to go to this year! (I think I'm going to hand this illo out as a coloring sheet for the kiddies!).

Have a great Halloween Weekend everyone!! BOOOOOOOO!!!!

Dragon Fly Queen

I just had to get in on all this fun you guys are having so I took a break from work. It was relaxing to draw and paint again. See you again soon.

Yucky

The activity for the class party was carving pumpkins. Pulling out all that slimy goo was kind of yucky.

Halloween Character

Hello everyone! This is my drawing for 'Halloween Character'. I know... it has nothing to do with pumpkins, etc... I'm sorry. But when I told to draw a character that I'd like to be for Halloween, I came up with the idea of this nonsense rhyme, all of a sudden. So... can I be Alice as in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? :-)

Class Halloween Party (a sponge painting) - sruble

I painted this one with cut up sponges (except the vampire). I painted the vampire with brushes to set him apart from the rest of the class. I thought the texture would be fun, and it is, except that the painting was too small (8.5 x 11) or the sponges were too big to make it look the way I wanted it to. Still, it's something I might play around with again in the future, or use brushes to try to re-create the texture. 

Eddie was out sick the day Ms. MacDonald's class decided to dress up as farm animals for the class party. Everyone forgot to tell Eddie when he came back.

Ms. MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O

 The chicken costume is my favorite. 

Class Halloween party

Walter was always a bit of an over achiever! A regular halloween costume just wouldn't do for him...(click the image to enlarge it)

Frankie Frankenstein

As a young monster, Frankie loved Halloween best of all & dressing as an angel was his favorite thing to do. He just needed to learn the difference between good and evil (his heart was still young and pure and held no evil thoughts)...

Young Frankenstein - sruble

I painted Young Frankenstein with his first monster, FrankenTeddy, and his little dog Frankie. I think Young Frankenstein would have worn PJs with his lab coat over them.

Young Frankenstein and FrankenTeddy

Looks like everyone else painted the monster as a kid ... I went with the scientist.