PAST All Hallow's Eve Artwork
i guess it's safe to say the creative juices are free-flowing inside of me again!! i finished this piece for my front door. this is absolutely my fav time of year. i wanted to do something unique for my front door, and when i was trying to decide what to do, the thought of copying some of the boys' Hallow's Eve photos from years past popped into my head and the piece snowballed from there. it's pretty simplistic, but i love it. it hung on my front door for a while, then i had to pull it inside so i can look at it! i really love this.
the base is an old scrapbook cover. -OLD... i'm talking like in the early 1900's scrapbooks. i painted it black. on the left side i took some vellum that has spider webs and spiders embossed into it. 
the irronic thing is i got this embossed vellum from inside an old cigar box! funny....... anyway, i then covered it with more black paint which made the background more balanced. on the right of the photos i encased the frame with modeling paste and impressed a clock stamp to emulate 'the past' concept. after drying overnight i painted it gold, then finished it with more black; later sanding it to expose some of the gold underneath. i used an old furniture tack and clock hands to give dimension. the frame is part of an old beveled glass window that i've used pieces of before, and attached it to the background with wire. the photos sit inside the frame randomly. i put a couple of glass slides over portions of 2 photos. cut out book text says TRICK ? OR TREAT ?
i finished this with a mini boa that i found at hobby lobby. it gives this some 'pop'. it hangs by a piece of wire that i distressed by thickly applying black paint and drying that with my heat gun, which gave it the texture i wanted. so Rock On- i'm ready to do the pin oak leaf wreath for my front porch now!
do you ever wonder what will happen to your artwork when you're gone -? i know, what the heck, but sometimes when i make something that i love so much like this, or my hardback book journal and the boys' sport journals i wonder... will my fam treasure and take care of my artwork like i do??? all i can say is -they better! i'll haunt them i think if they dont ;-) (and something tells me they know i would! ) i have a tendency of thinking too deep sometimes. i guess that's the curse for having such an eclectic mind. deep.
happy weekend! slm
