THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP BUT...BEWARE OF THE GHOSTS

"BEWARE OF THE GHOSTS"

OIL ON CANVAS

ANNABELLE / 2022

THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP BUT...
"BEWARE THE GHOSTS"
The beauty of working with oil paint is it allows me to fix my mistakes or things i dislike about the work. I wasn't fond of the toadstools so I repainted them.I believe I can move on to a new work.

 

A LITTLE PEEK A BOO GHOST

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🧡🖤🎃🎃🐾🐾🐾🐾🎃🎃🧡🖤

When Witches Go Riding and Black Cats Are Seen: The Moon Laughs and Whispers Tis Halloween 🧡🖤🎃🎃🐾🐾🐾🐾🎃🎃🧡

BAT AND MAGGIE ON INSTAGRAM

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🧡🖤🎃🎃🐾🐾🐾🐾🎃🎃🧡🖤

That Magic Moment💫✨🌟⭐️💫

  Happy Caturday!

That Magic Moment when two little kitties showed up at our back door on my daughter's birthday back on October 27, 2017, a brother and sister team who I swear are a little witch and a tinner warlock in disguise. Lots of magic resides here now.

For the Happy Caturday group theme "Special Moments".

 

"Magic, magic, magic, magic This magic moment, so different and so new"

This Magic Moment ~ Ben E King and The Drifters

Witches are Cats Too !! ‍🐱

"From now on, young man, watch your step...mother is watching you " 

- Endora in Bewitched

~ Bewitched Theme

photo by M 

Three Cats A Dog and A Camera

WITCHES' BROOM TREE WIP 🧹 OIL PAINTING

I love the trees! 

I love collecting their leaves, their seeds, the conks that I sometimes find on their trunks on my woodland walks and of course taking their photos. 

I also love the illustrations and paintings of trees, particularly the ones done by 19th - century British artists.

The Witch Broom Tree in this painting was inspired by Emily Carr's gorgeous trees of British Columbia.

"In 1818 Constable exhibited a beautiful drawing of elm trees at the Royal Academy. It failed to sell and so it was still in Constable’s possession two decades later, when he added a note on the back to the effect that “This noble Elm … was blown down April 1835.” It was a portrait, in other words, of a particular tree, one whose fortunes he continued to follow, and whose eventual loss he lamented long after he’d moved away from the area." ~ Professor Christiana Payne


And like John Constable, I adore painting them. When I came upon a tree down the road from where I live that looked quite peculiar I took a few photos of the tree for future reference which would come in handy when I went to paint it. At the time I didn't know why the tree was afflicted with such unusual, odd-looking, broom-like distortions but after looking it up online I discovered it was disease trees get and not from witches : )

I suppose the namesake is because it reminds one of a spooky broom belonging to a witch. So I decided to paint the Witch Broom Tree in oil but it was my first time painting entirely in oil and I didn't realize just how long it takes for the painting to dry and cure. This painting is still very wet.

I added a couple of spiders and webs to the tree and eventually would like to add a black cat and create more depth to the scenery before it's complete. Hopefully, in the process, I wouldn't destroy it.

💤 SLEEP WALK 💤

Does Music inspire you? It does for me. I have always loved the instrumental piece by Santo & Johnny, "SLEEP WALK",one of my favourites.

I love many things like cats and dogs , music, art and stories and much more.

I once again was inspired by a song or should I say by an instrumental piece to create art and inspired by a place I once used to call home a very long time ago.

There really does exist a place called Wychwood across the Ottawa river on the Quebec side at Aylmer, Quebec. And so, I painted "SLEEP WALK".

SLEEP WALK

It snowed all day. It was a very deep and frosty snow. All of Wychwood was under a twinkling blanket of snow; a purrrfect night to tuck in early to bed for a good night's sleep but Genova , the witch couldn't sleep.

She was in an old cottage in the woods , with candlelight reflected in the large parlour room window; by her side, her 3 ghosts ; Ghost, Spooks and Boo. The view of the front lawn was an enchanting site, all sparkling and glittery, just like a Christmas postcard only it was just October.

Oh, my, I'm so tired but I can't sleep! said Genova. Lying on the sofa she reached for the knob on the radio and turned the dial to on, suddenly over the waves there was the song that always sent Genova to a far, far away place.“Sleep Walk”. Genova closed her eyes and drifted to the land of nod. Ghost, a big fluffy white cat, the biggest of the three cats became drowsy to the sound of the still guitar and soon he too was sound asleep. As for the other two cats, Spooks was transfixed to the window, something had caught his attention. It was Boo he was watching,once again sleep walking .......outdoors!

Spooks wondered just how long it would be before Boo would wake from the chilly air and realize he was not inside the house.

Mirror, Mirror on the Hearth

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE HEARTH

WHOSE THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL?

Will-O'-The-Wisp ~ Ghost Light 

SHOULD HAVE GUESSED IT WAS YOU, LITTLE BAT🧡🖤🎃

Tonight's Fairy Tale -The Little Witch who Captured the Moon

"At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss " Paulo Coelho


Tonight's Fairy Tale -The Little Witch who Captured the Moon.

"See these eyes so green I can stare for a thousand years"

"See these eyes so green

I can stare for a thousand years

Colder than the moon" ~ David Bowie

I'm bewitched by David Bowie, collecting dead people's stuff, Halloween🎃......and CATS😻but that's not all , there is more😉later!

Witch & Her Little Bat

Witch & Her Little Bat

Witch & Her Little Bat

I dressed up our Witch for Halloween last October and gave her my vintage Old snuff perfume bottle necklace to keep her secret potion and a beautiful blue Victorian beaded bag to keep her special herbs in but little did know I would soon be giving her a little black kitten , a real one🐱Just a wee bit of a touch up obscuring the messing background since it was a spur of the moment photo; we were so excited and afraid of hurting him we took a real quick pic without any setup. Looks better now, I think.