Yes, I'm very late but here's a little offering for last week's Illustration Friday, 'Spooky'.
This is one of my 'plastic wrap things'! I pushed cling wrap into folds and creases on wet acrylic and watercolour inks, and allowed it to dry. Turned it upside down and spotted few things - rats, bats, birds and faces - worked into it with watercolour pencils. Spooky! Click to enlarge to see all the weirdness!
Really cool technique- love how this turned out.
ReplyDeletemy good god caroline, this is so spooky and so clever i am (again) enthralled!
ReplyDeleteit was spooky enough: leaving me to fill in the definition made it all even scarier, but when i blew it up and saw those faces and bats and eyes and now i'm thinking and what did i miss so far?!
i hope you are safe and sound and silly today.
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kj
ah, what fun this piece is!! I spot an owl among the spooky crowd as well. Very clever caroline!X
ReplyDeleteVERY VERY COOL!
ReplyDeleteCaroline you and I must do something alike. Do you look at surfaces with irregular patterns and try to identify figures from them? I always see faces! What a very creative and fun activity you did and yes, I see so many figures. Have a great week, Caroline.
ReplyDeleteooooo, this is fantastic!! Is really spooky at that too!
ReplyDeleteHow absolutely cool! This is like one of those pages in our elementary school books about "how many animals can you find here?" I'll bet this was fun to do. I may give it a try, myself.
ReplyDeleteYou did what, how? Wow, what an interesting process. I wish you'd show and tell with pictures of the process. Very interesting and love the results. Scared me to death! So spooky it is.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed spooky! Love that technique.
ReplyDeleteIt's really spooky cool and amazing...very stained glass-like! :)
ReplyDeleteReally, cool, I love the technique and the colors!
ReplyDeleteI did a similar thing with suminagashi: it seems that the best way to find something spooky is looking at casual patterns and let our mind do the job...
You captured the essence of spooky in this illio.
ReplyDeleteExcellent - very dark! Love spotting all the spooky things in this.
ReplyDeleteOh GOODNESS! Isn't that something! The features came out perfectly, too! There's a term for the phenomenon of being able to see faces in seemingly random patterns, but I've forgotten it. The faces you've discovered are certainly spooky, yet beautiful too!
ReplyDeleteI love this one! Just fabulous.
ReplyDeleteOooooh--this is really really beautiful. I didn't even see all the faces in it at first. I was just admiring the beautiful colors, shapes and textures. Way cool!
ReplyDelete...cooooool! That is spooky! I love the raven, the rat and the bats hidden in with the face. I'm working on raven paintings too. I love Halloween and all its images.
ReplyDeleteLovely textures and colors!
ReplyDeleteHI Caroline..very cool work. Love your style and technique. I also see an owl! Oh and yoru breakfast pics...so gorgeous! living the dolce vita! thats super! have a great week Caroline! I have been so behind catching up with all my fav blogs..was busy working on two past shows
ReplyDeleteThe texture really look great and so do the illustration!
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Very cool! Amazing all the hidden details in the folds of color. Thanks for sharing!
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