The two stages of the Catherine Fenwright portrait

 

 

This is the "normal" stage

This the "scary" stage

This portrait was originally conceived as a normal portrait, but I had the idea that someday I would paint a skeletal version.  The second stage is a 2004 repaint, and I decided to make it a vampiress painting.  The first stage is a digitally altered to look normal, since it was a scan of the actual portrait.  I had painted the eyes with a fluorescent orange paint to make them glow under a black light.

Scary Christmas

Even ghosts celebrate Christmas... and one phantom brings presents to all of the good little ghost and monster children.

You don't know the story, well it's a work in progress, but here it is in it's disjointed glory.
" T'was the fright before Christmas, and all through the house, not a person was sleeping, not even a mouse.
The windows were all shuttered and bolted with care, in hopes of avoidng a ghastly scare.
Settle down, and  pause*, while I tell you about the ghost of Skele Claus.

One Christmas eve not so long ago, he stalked his way through the snow
with an overcoat black as night, wrapped with a chain to add more fright.
With the familiar red hat and straggly white beard, kids saw him and would run with fear.
With eyes that glowed like fire and a bone chilling laugh that filled the halls, They knew on this cold night they were visited by the ghost known as Skele Claus!"


* shortened to "Pause" suggested by AOL friend Apocolypse66