New video on Old and Spooky! This was a lot of fun to make, and certainly a lot of fun to research.
This is where I admit that I read the list wrong AGAIN, and did this one before the witch. Well, I guess it put me ahead.
I once again do my thing where I forget to hit record, so you miss some coloring-in. Sowwy. I’m also good at starting recording when I think I’m stopping, but I will not include the footage of the desk while I’m off gathering pens.
I got tired of cutting out card components, and I already had some tags with neat backgrounds, so I switched to those. It’s a lot of fun to do a bunch of tags and put them on a ring. I have one from years ago with some great drawings. I still look at it.
I continued using the Posca pens with a little actual paint.
I actually remembered to keep the camera on the whole time. But at the end I realized she needed steam lines.
This was actually yesterday’s prompt, but I read the list wrong. I’m okay with that.
I love this one so much. I goofed up and didn’t film the actual drawing, but you do get to see all the coloring and other stuff.
I used Posca paint pens, mostly pushing ink out and using a brush. I’ve never done that before, and I really liked working with it.
For today’s #hARToween prompt, I used Brusho to make a dynamic background, and drew on a shimmery silver ghost. Here’s a little video:
Happy Countdown! This year I’m doing #hARToween, and the prompt for the first day is PUMPKIN. You may think I’m cheating to use a stamp. Ahh…but see I also drew and made the stamp. Okay, not today, but I figured I’d give myself a little cheat for the first day.
I even made a tiny video:
Dangit, I knew I forgot something when I uploaded my last video. My preciousssss blog!
This week I used the Little Windows cabochon kit again, and it did not disappoint. I love these.
Tomorrow, the Countdown to Halloween begins. This year, I’m using a prompt list from a Mastodon friend, Mother Suspiria. Here it is if you’d like to follow along:
I like it because so many prompt lists try to be different by being way too specific, in weird ways. This is just straight-up Halloweeny. I’m kind of crap at drawing, so this will be 31 days of good practice.
Happy Spooky Season!
This week’s video was a fun challenge. I had to sculpt a ghost dog in an interesting position. Even if it wasn’t entirely successful, there are context clues. I really enjoyed painting the little nighttime street scene.
Lots of clay, lots of paint, lots of terrible, terrible jokes.
This week on My Messy Desk, I made a little trinket box from the 6-in-1 mold set by Little Windows. I am not sponsored by them, they just make wonderful stuff. I made the dish, then flipped the mold over to make the lid. It even had a template I could have used to cut the vintage Halloween image to the correct size, but I didn’t use it, because I didn’t notice it until I put the set away.
Of course, I made the whole thing twice, just not on camera. I wasn’t liking the first one anyway, then the image lifted on the lid, so it was a bust. Funny, I thought I was ahead of the game when I got started on Monday. Yeah, not so much.
This mold was a lot of fun, and I suspect it will be showing up again in the future.
About a year ago, I started working on a bunch of stuff. Among them was a retro-horror channel called Old and Spooky, where I would discuss 20th century horror. I was almost done with my first video, when disaster struck. Disaster named ADHD. I accidentally deleted my data, and thanks to Microsoft (it’s complicated, but they suck) I could only restore a tiny amount.
I was devastated. I couldn’t look at it for months.
Then I started My Messy Desk, which is a whole lot of fun. Problem is, there’s a lot of downtime while I wait for things to dry or cure or whatever, and I don’t have much else to do. I decided to work on Old and Spooky during that downtime. It felt great. It feels great. And now, the first video is out.
It’s about one of my all-time faves: Dan Curtis. If you don’t know who that is, I bet you do know Dark Shadows and the Kolchak movies, right? Well that’s Dan Curtis.
Here is my inaugural video. My reading is a little stiff, but that will get better with time. Overall, I’m pretty proud of this. *flexes*
