All Souls Day / Day of the Dead

This illustration was done for the “scary great” challenge on the “They Draw “ website. It is based on the Scottish Prayer: “From Ghoulies and Ghosties, and long leggity beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord Deliver us.” I did a painting over 12 years ago illustrating that same prayer andContinue reading “All Souls Day / Day of the Dead”

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! Thank you for following along with me for this month’s THEYDRAWTOBER Challenge. I am grateful to you, my followers! Here’s a piece of virtual Halloween cake!

Witches Brew

I have to say, this one was so MUCH fun. I played with many different Procreate features and brushes and I had a blast. This totally went an entirely different direction than I was thinking but once I drew the cauldron, it was just me being intuitive and right brained the rest of the way.

Candy

Well this was easy. I opted out of the standard wrapper candy and went with the ‘movie box’ candy. This is the kind of candy where we’ll go to the dollar store and pick up the movie boxes for a buck a piece and take them in with us. We saw “No Time to Die”Continue reading “Candy”

Root veggies

Ahhh, one of my favorite foods in the fall no winter. I love roasted root vegetables. I love taking carrots and parsnips, onions, garlic, sweet potatoes and beets and roasting them with chicken. There are so many baking pan recipes these days that are perfect for easy meals. Hmm. Maybe that’s what we’ll have forContinue reading “Root veggies”

Pomegranate

I like poms but they are quite the mess when cutting them. They are great in salads and such. I just found out I could grow them here which is very interesting. We can grow avocados, too, so I am trying to get my hands on a tree or plant one from a seed. IContinue reading “Pomegranate”