Saturday, August 29, 2009

Halloween inspiration

I was looking through a forum thread about Halloween and thought how fun the whole theme is. Thinking about creepy, scary beads, offered all kinds of potential and inspiration. The character I thought to portray was the word 'ghoul' and this combined with my sense or awful puns, 'Ghoul with a Pearl Earring' was born. I hadn't referenced the painting before I started but I was still very pleased with the result. After making her I got excited and thought of more awful puns...
Below is the 'Moaner Lisa'A hand shot to give an idea of sizes. Here we have 'The Scream', 'Whistler's Mummy' and 'Ghoul with a Pearl Earring' (mark 3 after I looked at the painting! the second one I did was interrupted when I ran out of gas and it cracked). I etched whistler's and scream but left the frame glossy. The reason I etched was because I had mistaken a reduction rod for black and when I reduced the frame, all this metallic luster popped up where it was NOT wanted. Etching removes luster. I really love the feel of etched glass and also the patterns and lines seem to pop more. However I'm not completely satisfied with whistler and scream and will redo them. I also have lined up, Henry the Ape and The Birth of Heinous, stay tuned....

3 comments:

Lou said...

I may get in trouble for suggesting this but I am thinking of starry night with a witch sailing across the sky....
Love what you have done so far

Darcys Knotty Knitter said...

I was able to last month go to my first museum the Moma and I cried as I was so moved by the paintings.Hugs Darcy
here is a link to the post with some of the pictures I took and one taken of me standing by my favorite Starry Night by Van Gogh
http://darcyknottyknitter.blogspot.com/2009/11/newyork-museum-of-modern-art.html

Carli said...

Jawjee, I must have the Ghoul with a pearl earring bead.....it's my most fav painting! Please email me!