Day Six: October Art Challenge

Good evening! Another late night post because it was dog food day. I cook my dogs their food from scratch, so it’s a whole production from grocery shopping to cooking for a couple hours. But it’s so worth it, they love it and are super healthy doggos. It was nice and summery out today with no wind, so I painted some of today’s piece from the front porch. I love painting outside so I can see the true colors of the paint. All of a sudden I had a new flower in the garden! My ma says it’s a zinnia. I love it. I found this awesome kind of fungus, Bird’s Nest Fungi growing on a little chunk of my mulch! I couldn’t get a proper photo, but inside those little bloops are a bunch of tinier bloops that look like eggs in a nest. Lastly, today’s Chaka den photoshoot. Onto the painting!

ZOMBEYE ROSE

Watercolor and pastel pencil

Original painting available here in my shop: https://novastardust.com/originals/zombeye-rose

As you will see with the original sketch, it began as all nature and whimsy and rosy pinks, but I decided it was time for a spooky monster painting for our October. What began as an innocent cactus hand has turned into a zombie hand eyeball extravaganza.

This original sketch in pastel pencil has many natural elements within the palm. This is something I’ll play with further in the future, but for this month…zombie palm. And again with the inverting; it looks so cooool!! Kinda tattooey?

Here is a little process painting video:

Thank you for watching, see you all tomorrow for the next one!

OH P.S. I bought TINY COFFINS for woodburning (as always) so maybe some re-burns?

XOXO

Nova * Dust