ACEO...The Weeping Man

This is an art card using digital collage elements from the Haeckel images, DaVinci drawings, Galileo drawings and my own photograph and elements.
Size is 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

The base photograph is of an old tobacco barn way past it's prime and covered in Kudzu vines and moss. This photo was over saturated to get the intense colors. There was an evening sun and reflection on my lens that I softened and accented to get the surreal glow.

There are approximately four layers using different vintage elements. I have used different degrees of transparency brushes on each to achieve the proper effect.

After each card is printed I add touches of micro glitter in various places to make each trading card a one of a kind. I sign and date the cards on the back and send them in a cellophane sleeve for protection.

This is for sale with others in my Etsy shop:) Shameless promotion I know...but if you don't promote your self...who will?:)

It's Scary Time Again!!

This was such a fun treasury to collate:) I had no idea there was such wonderful strangeness in the Etsy community:) I fit right in...don't I:) If you want to visit these shops...I have a link from the title above to go directly to the treasury. Would love a comment if you are so inclined:) Thanks Bunches!!

Watch For Snakes in the Shed!! Adventures at the Pine Knoll Shore Aquarium

I go to the aquarium to see fish! Imagine my surprise to round a corner to see this colorful but horrifying display amongst the large fish tanks:) I was mesmerized at at the variety of color in this one kind of snake...a Corn Snake.
Now, I can appreciate a snake and how he makes his living. And being a surveyors wife, I understand the good guys and the bad guys. We try to give all snakes a wide birth, but there are times when the bad guys just will not back down. Little do they know there is a man with a 6x12 inch very sharp blade at the end of a five foot stick ready to do battle.
We have a little rhyme we go through...Red to yellow, kill the fellow. Red to black, friend of Jack. Does not always apply to the snakes around here:) We mostly look for a diamond shaped head.
The good guys we take more effort to shoo back into the brush and not hurt them. These good guy corn snakes make it hard to shoo instead of chop:) Especially the Copperhead imitator here. Sometimes you just react rather than try to sort out good guy or bad guy! Some say the only good snake is a dead snake...I say ...
the only good spider is a dead spider!! I'll take a snake any old day, good guy or bad guy, rather than a spider....ugh!!! Webs to ensnare you, eight legs to touch you...and the bites...shake and shiver, ugh!!!!! Happy Halloween!!!

Scary Is...As Scary Does

This turned out to be so much fun to collate. Partly because I was inspired to introduce a new Etsy shop...that of Jay King, www. tinycgolems.etsy.com. His creation leads the treasury with promises of more weirdness to come:) I had not an idea that there would be such a grand collection of Scary Is...with in moments of fingertips reach. Every shop was a delight to look at and choose just the right piece. Some were shops I visit often to see just what the artists are up to...others were new and a delight!

I hope you will go to this treasury and take time to visit each and every offering. You will not be disappointed. If you need inspiration to get you in to the Halloween mood...these artists will put you there:)

But, back to tinygolems....to truly appreciate Jay's creative genius , you must visit his blog...http://hiddenmissives.blogspot.com/. Each of his faces are accompanied by a moniker and a brief supposition of his creations personality. I dare you to look at only one! His tribal collection is astounding! Like reading the cast of a grand novel, you have to wonder where each face will fit into the storyline...who will be your favorite character.

I happen to have in my possession six of his charactors...they stare at me from their little glass box begging to be held and offering whispers of who they want to become. Welcome to the world of Hidden Missives! Enjoy your visit there!