#monthoffear2020

This Year for Sure

For Month of Fear 2020, week 4: "Costume". "Every year prior she had wanted to go up to him and introduce herself, but dreaded rejection for what she suspected was a costume that left much to be desired. But this year she had started early and would be unrecognizable for sure, giving her the courage to finally meet him up close."

The original legends of the harpies is pretty, well, ancient Greek - bloody and cruel. But I like what modern fantasy made of them and often have ideas with bird women, this time I made her pigeon blue. A mask was the obvious choice for this week's prompt, so I decided to go with a tricky pose for interest.

Night (Month of Fear)

My second entry to 2020's Month of Fear, subject: Night. I felt like keeping it simple, but it became tricky when I came up with the idea to use snippets of brass foil for the city lights - not only do I keep finding them on the floor, they were also difficult to scan. The white light effects are done with Spirograph wheels; I recently got one to relive childhood memories and keep trying to find ways to put them into my regular work.

Enfleurage Nocturnelle

My third entry to Month of Fear 2020 for the subject Supernatural. There's A LOT that comes to mind for that word, but I tried to restrain myself from becoming too complex. My first entry had bees and I wanted to play with the subject more but ended up with only flowers. I was given one of those 3D pens that melt PLA filaments, and one of those was glow-in-the-dark, so I decided to enhance my simple subject of lady with flacon with it. I might have looked first what colour it had because I tracked down fragrant tuberosa flowers as having the perfect greenish-white colour for the traditional glow-in-the-dark plastic, but it turned out mine is transparent! I "drew" the flowers and swirls on a glass plate and glued them to the painting with clear medium. The canvas is an acrylics pouring on wood. I've been enjoying working on those colourful background, even if the uneven surfaces can be tricky. You can see the small cracks of the thick paint layers in some places. The glossy varnish has made some tiny foamy bubbles around the fluorescent filaments and flowers.