More Spooky Goodness

While my time for blogging is limited, I did give myself an assignment for October, didn't I? I can't believe it is already half over.

Enjoy a few more of my favorite items from the darker side of Etsy.

Memento Mori Doll by October Effigies




Church Graveyard by Virtually Forever




Queen of Sorrow by Anne Julie




the ghost's letter by Madelaine

It's Finally October!!!!!

Now that it is officially October I can start celebrating Halloween! Halloween has been my favorite holiday since I was a kid. Better than Christmas. Better than my birthday. I love love love it.

In order to get my blogging butt in gear, I am going to try to feature spooky art from some of my favorite artists all month.

Suzanne Gonsalez does amazing altered photographs, available at ravenwolf.etsy.com. A cool side-note from her profile is that she is the great-great niece of Pancho Villa. How cool is that?

Be sure to check out the Ravenwolf Gallery Website (shared with artist Ross Zirkle) for more of her amazing work.

Below are a few of my favorite pieces she has available on etsy, including one of her digital prints and three from her series of Creepy Children to help get you in the Halloween mood.

Metamorphosis - Digital Print - Limited Edition



Creepy Little Children no 7



Creepy Little Child no 4

Creepy Little Children no 10

Kimberly at Stir

I happened upon Seattle artist Kimberly "Ella" Van Dyke's website today, and I completely lost track of time looking at the beautiful things she does! In a room by myself I actually responded out loud to several of her pieces. Do I call them paintings? Photographs? Really, they're both. She photographs these amazing tableaux she has concocted of nudes interacting with back-dropped paintings she's done in homage to classical works of art in her Muse series. Be sure to check out her take on Bouguereau's Evening Mood. In her Blot and and Personification series the nudes themselves are the paintings. I was particularly taken with Cello, featured below.



And I promise that the fact that she and I share the same birthday has nothing to do with how much I love her work!