Ghost Images

 I love the ghosts images on this spread in my Halloween journal. I suppose I don't needed to add the cat- it's a little too big for the rest of the images on the page, but I decided just to leave him and not paint over him.

I first painted the page with metallic black paint (Martha Stewart) and then used a stencil and regular acrylic paint to make the forest and the moon. The evergreen trees are a TH die cut. Trees look black at night so I used black paper to cut them from. Then I used white pigmented ink to stamp all the other images.

I think I have owned this white pigment ink pad for at least 10 years, maybe even more like 15. and it still stamps fantastic!

I like how on the right you can see my brush strokes and they look like more trees deeper in the forest. Especially how they would look on a night with a bright full moon.

And I like how the white pigment ink looks ghost like on this black paint.

Feels like I just took out my box of Halloween stamps and papers, and in a few days they'll go back into the closet. Then it will be just about time to pull out the Christmas things- a box of stamps and a box of paper and a third box of ephemera.
Oh my!

OK, maybe I need a holiday purge.
Think I'll change the subject.
How about a few last blooms in my garden.

 Those roses are pretty amazing, even though most of them have gone.

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