Leaf Ghost #219

Blue and green rather than red and green for my annual holiday ghost. Gouache, Cerulean Blue and Viridian, both combined with Titanium White for the lighter squares.

Leaf Ghost #218

The background pair (Copic BG72 Ice Ocean and BG10 Cool Shadow) is one of my favorite matches, and the foreground pair (YR61 Spring Orange and YR2 Pale Sepia) is another. But I don’t think I’ve ever used both pairs in one ghost before. They’re a good combination.

 Not to mention that this damaged leaf is pareidolia city. 

Leaf Ghost #217

At long last “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” draws to a close. I can’t believe I’ve been working on this same story since April, spanning nine leaf ghosts.

 In October I watched a string of old Vincent Price horror movies, including several of the Poe pieces he did with Roger Corman. The experience inspired me to switch my intended order up a bit. So after I finished the story, I moved on to “The Haunted Palace” (even though the Price movie had little enough to do with the Poe poem).

It was short enough to fit on the page with room to spare, so from there I went to “Hop Frog.” In addition to being one of my favorite short stories, it also formed a part of the plot of Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death, another October marathon entry. And I fear another tale that looks longer than I remembered.