The Bewitching Season

Well, it is almost that time and I can feel it in the air. The skies are once again more gray than blue here in NJ (at least so far). Sometimes we have beautiful September and October weather making it like an extended summer, however, I have doubts about this season. So with not much sunshine what better thing to do than sit at my art table and create some appropriate holiday sculptures.

The stores have the fall items stocked and I already feel that ghostly ghoulish mood coming on. Each year I seem to miss the window of opportunity to make Halloween sculptures. This year I vowed not to not miss it!

With many distractions of 'life' lately and all sorts of indoor house projects I am going to somehow manage to get a few fun Halloween pieces done this year!

I have always wanted to do witches. They can be creepy and ugly or pretty and fun witches. I chose the creepy ugly witch theme because I just love to sculpt wart covered noses and gnarly knuckled fingers!

Here is my first Halloween sculpture. Her head and neck are sculpted and then I secured her to a purple frosted bottle.



I really enjoy doing the witch face -- there is so much you can do to a witch face with warty noses, creepy sunken in faces, lips that pucker in from not having teeth. The ideas are endless. I happen to like witches with green faces too.



After completing her I decided I would like to do a complete sculpture of a witch. So that is what I am working on as I write this blog post. She will be a soft sculpture witch with the ability to be posed. Oooo, so much fun. I can't wait to do her outfit! And perhaps a witches cauldron too!



Trick or treat time is coming up fast!! I must get back to my art table to turn out more spooky seasonal sculptures!