PECULIAR CHILDREN

 Remember when Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children was popular? 

There was a whole set of Peculiar Children books. Miss Peregrine's Children had a large array of psychic, magical powers. They could transform themselves into other things, float in the air, read your mind, tell the future, move objects, and vanish. They were very special and very different from other children. And very spooky!!!

I thought this would be a very good theme for us to try!! Create your own version of your Peculiar Children for this challenge! What special psychic powers do your children have? Show us in your artwork! Have fun this week with your children!!

I created a Page with Images for you to use in your artwork and I finally updated the Artist's Showcase for you!!  

Here are my Peculiar Children!

And of course, this one was just for fun!!

Can't wait to see what your Peculiar Children can do!!

Digital art created from Art House Whimsey Gothic Backgrounds, KateDreamPrint Digital Kit Dreamy Backgrounds, Pixabay, Miriam's Digital Kit Scraps, and Pinterest.

GOTHIC STEAMPUNK CHARACTERS

So sorry, Ladies, that I have been absent from our challenge.  I was experiencing internet problems and had no WIFI. Thank goodness it has been solved, and I am now ready to continue, without interruptions, our theme for this week: 

Gothic Steampunk!

We all love Steampunk so I added a Gothic Twist to our theme! Have fun creating your own gothic interpretation of the theme!!

Here are my Gothic Steampunk Creations: 

Digital art created from Designs By M&N Digital Kit Wandering Dreams and FusionDreamPrint Digital Kit Steampunk Halloween

IGNIS FACTUUS

Ignis Factuus, in traditional folklore, known as "foolish fire" or for better terms, Will-O -The Wisp, Corpse Candle, Jack-O-Lantern, or Friar's Lantern. It is described as a ghostly, white ball of light that floats above ground with unknown origins. These balls of light are seen at night or twilight, usually over bogs, swamps, and marshes. Sometimes they have been seen in the foliage and bushes on a mountainside as well. It resembles a flickering light or a lamp that is sometimes seen to recede once approached. 

Here is a example:

Your challenge this week is to create your own Ingus Factuus of eerie, lights floating mysteriously in your background of choice. 

I was a Tour Guide for the U.S. Ghost Tour Adventures in Gatlinburg, TN. Here are a few of my photos taken at the Ogle's Cemetary in Galinburg showing these eerie lights.

This is me!! Waiting for the tour to begin!!

These pictures were taken at the old Church in Gatlinburg.

When these pictures were enlarged, this is what I saw at the window with the four panes. I also saw the mist or "spot" on the roof. I have no idea what that is on the window!

Notice the yellow glow in the left window. The bright light was an outside light in the corner.

On this particular night, I only had 2 women on the tour. There were no men present and yet, I caught a male figure in this picture strolling through the graveyard. There is, however, a young man buried in the graveyard that was accidentally killed on the elevator at the famous Space Needle. Could that male presence be him??? Did I catch a "real ghost' on camera? You be the judge!

And finally, my creation for the The,me: Ignis Factuus!

Thank you for joining in on the Challenge this week! Cannot wait to see what spooky creations you will make!!

IN THE MIST OF THE MOORS

 Being alone on the moors is scary, as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realize your place in nature

I know I posted "There Be Dragons" but I changed my mind. I decided to go with the Mist In the Moors Theme. Think of England in the days of Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights and create your own dark, mist-filled moors with what you would find in your dark imagination. I have posted a page of free images for you to use. Transport yourself back in time and have fun this week walking the Moors. Cautionary note: be careful what you see in the mist!! 

Also, this week I will try to update our Spooky Artistry Showcase!!

Here are my creations when I walked in the Mist of the Moors!

I had known loneliness before, an emptiness on the Moor, but I had never been a nothing, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

It is a creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. All that tells the same story of this dreadful apparition. I assure you there is a reign of terror in the district, and there are none, not even a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

Then away out in the woods, I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that is on its mind but can't make itself understood and so it can't rest easy in its grave and has to go about that way every night grieving. 

As you value your life and your reason...

KEEP AWAY FROM THE MOORS!!

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, the road was a ribbon of moonlight over the bleak Moors, and the Highwayman came walking, walking, walking, up to the Olde Inn door.

How does one work up a little madness? Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely Moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics in English novels and plays. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

Digital art created from images from Pixabay and Miriam's Digital Kit Scraps

FANCIFUL REGAL RENAISSANCE

 

Every little girl dreams of being a Princess. She reads all of the fairy tales of young maidens in distress, fiery dragons, castles with a drawbridge, and knights in shining armor coming to the rescue. The age of Romance and Chivalry. The Enchanted Forest where she would first meet her courageous Prince, sitting astride a gallant white horse. 

Your challenge this week is to recreate and capture that magical, mystical time in your artwork. Think of King Arthur and Guinevere. Excaliber. The Lady of Shalott. 

I have posted a page of Renaissance Images for you to use for the challenge!

And think of yourself as a Princess!!! 

Yes, go ahead...we can all be a princess, not for one day, but for every day! 

My Regal Renaissance: