Halloween

One of my my favorite holidays is just around the corner, so I've been in that kind of mood lately.  Which explains Mr. and Mrs. Jack-o-Lantern.  Happy haunting!

Haunted History

Purely for fun, here are two portraits I painted, based on similar portraits by the masters Domenico Ghirlandaio and Hans Holbein. In the spirit of  Halloween, (one of my favorite holidays),  I have altered them to my taste with some gothic touches. 
Goauche on paper.

Fall

The word 'fall' traces it's origins through the old English faellen and the Old Norse fall, words having the meaning "to fall from a height".  The term came into use in 16th Century England as a contraction of expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".

There are so many ways to fall - overboard; to pieces; in love; to sleep...and there is that famous fall of Alice's.  I love this season for it's feeling of transformation; for that last bright flare of the candle before the dark of winter... 

To Fall.