Halloween, Samhain, Update and Features!

WELCOME!

Well, I found a lot of old works in progress, so I am really busy finishing them when possible. Some are so old they are not my style anymore, but I see what I can do. Hate it when they are stuffed around in drawers without being finished.

And of course there is my new cadaver Foxy , who lies happily dead in my garden for my joyfull observation. So stay tuned for some 'fresh' sketchwork. I  still have to upload it though, time is still not my friend.

BI-WEEKLY THEME

From October 2012 I will get back to do a weekly theme with a short text and of course with features.

Last week's theme waterhorses was really great. I did some sketch work and started to read 'Scorpio Races-Maggie Stiefvater'. This book is about waterhorses and I really like it. I did not finish it though, so I will not say anymore about it now.

If you are interested, you can find out more about this book here: maggiestiefvater.com/the-scorp…

This week's theme can be no surprise:

Halloween/Samhain

HALLOWEEN

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of its original title "All Hallows' Evening"),[ also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve before the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. According to some scholars, All Hallows' Eve initially incorporated traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honoring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently of Samhain.

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as "guising"), attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowee… , for more info about Halloween, also click the link)

SAMHAIN

Samhain ( /ˈsɑːwɪn/, /ˈsaʊ.ɪn/, or /ˈsaʊn/ is a Gaelic harvest festival held on October 31–November 1. It was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and was popularised as the "Celtic New Year" from the late 19th century, following Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer. The date of Samhain was later associated with the Catholic All Saints' Day (and later All Souls' Day) from at least the 8th century, and both the Gaelic and the Catholic liturgical festival have influenced the secular customs now connected with Halloween.

The medieval Goidelic festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half". It was celebrated over the course of several days and had some elements of a Festival of the Dead. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. People and their livestock would often walk between two bonfires as a cleansing ritual, and the bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.[
Samhain is celebrated as a religious festival by some neopagans.

(source:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain&…;, for more info about Samhain, also click the link)

A beautiful song about Samhain: Samhain-Magica www.youtube.com/watch?v=awFgOe…

You can smell it in the air
It is the time of
burning leaves
The little girl
peels the apple
Round and round

The Earth is alive
And she sees what
she believes
The hazelnuts lie
Open on the ground

Samhain
Samhain
Samhain

Let's open the gates
So our loved ones may pass !

FEATURES

Last but not least some featured scary deviations for Halloween:

First of all, check out this group : iconhalloweenManiacs:  for a great selection of Halloweenrelated artwork.

Mouse Party for Halloween by

Halloween Kitten by

Halloween by

Halloween by

Halloween Story by

:thumb260773577: Halloween by

Go check their Galleries for more awesome pieces!

WORK IN PROGRESS

At the moment i am working on an overload of pieces at the same time in order to renew my portfolio a bit .
-Luckely are most of them nearly done.
And of course some of theseworks in progress can be followed during their WIP stadium on my sketchaccount: www.skarbog-sketch.deviantart.com
Feel free to have a look and let me know what you think!

FACEBOOKPAGE

There now also is a facebookpage ^_^Check it out!!

Well, first things first, back to work now!



Byos!

Skarbog

Animals
Animal Sketches from the Zoo
ATC – Trading Cards
Death & Decay
Dead Turtle; The Progress of Decay
Dragons
Fanart
Fantasy
Fantasy Horses
Fantasy People
Horses
Lineart, tribal and tattoo
Mythology

MAKING OF........

See how it was made; short videos on youtube:

Hallow's Eve
Workshop Lorien on Pastel
I am not Forgotten
Gentle evil Spirit
Nightmare of the Lake
Have you heard


My Favourite pieces so far

      

PROJECT DEATH AND DECAY

Collection of paintings of bones and dead animals.

skarbog.deviantart.com/gallery…

At the moment i have a separate folder for a new subject within the project, the dead turtle. You can find it here: skarbog.deviantart.com/gallery…