It’s Halloween!

My wife, Tammie, loves to decorate our house for Halloween. For our back room, I did this 36″ x 36″ acrylic painting as a gift for her. It felt good to work with traditional brushes after working pretty much only with painting knives the past couple years. It’s the best way to work for me when I want to get more detailed. At the same time, all that knife painting seems to have loosened my brushwork up.

Anyway, here’s the finished painting. I had a lot of fun doing it, especially the skull in the full moon. The 2 cats are our cats, Neko and Athena. I titled it “It’s Halloween!” and, yes, I did get that title from the song by The Shaggs.

I’ve also made a YouTube video slideshow of the painting in its progressive stages, which you can watch below.

I know it’s early, but Happy Halloween!