Sam Pumpking at The Cult of the Great Pumpkin liked the leafy Jack O’ Lantern so much he asked me to make a t-shirt design out of it using the Cult’s signature face, so that’s the JOL for the day, made with Adobe Illustrator. It’ll be up in the Cult’s store soon.
This is what we wanted to do with the leaves we gathered from the local graveyard on Saturday:
Zombie Army Productions‘ John La Flamboy is my Jack O’ Lantern today. That is all.
Yesterday Ripley and I went over to the old graveyard behind our house (we have 4 of them, actually – all on adjacent plots of land, surrounded by residential neighborhoods. Weird!) and gathered graveyard maple leaves from under this tree:
The first thing we’ve made from them are these. Ripley’s is Sharpie’d, mine’s cut out with an X-Acto Knife. Ripley’s been paying attention to Daddy’s style of Jack O’ Lantern, while I opted for a very traditional face:
There will be more to come…
Last year I discovered the Halloween Countdown and swore to myself that in 2010 I’d participate. At some point in recent memory, I also saw a fellow artist who posted a skull a day for a month. So, for my Halloween countdown, my daughter Ripley (8) and I are going to come up with and post at least one Jack O’ Lantern a day, every day in October. We’re going to be as creative as we can, and we’ll see what we come up with. Last night’s M & M’s were the beginning; tonight Ripley and I watched “Hocus Pocus” and painted these awesome paper mache masks we found at our local Michael’s:
