​Throughout the year I pull out old paintings when decorating for the seasons.  Here are some of them I currently have up on one of our fireplace mantels for All Hallows’ Eve.

Read about the pieces through these links:

“Vintage Halloween Masks” 

“Cosmic Peacock”

“Saturn”

​​{ Saturn. …Just typing the word “Saturn” today brought to mind one of the world’s great gems - - couldn’t help but shine light on a review of the all time genius of S. Wonder and a piece from his beyond great Songs In The Key Of Life album… Some timely lyrics and music for the world: “Saturn” by Stevie Wonder }

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The Owl Painting can be found in these blogs:

“First Day of Fall”

“Winter 2021”
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Other blogs from this October 2022:

Canvas #11: “Fine Mined Minerals & Spooky Season”

Canvas #12: “Six Elements Plus Six Green Figurines”

Halloween Top Hat

Canvas Number Twelve brings ongoing questions and easily suggests all three elements in this “Twenty Questions”/“Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral” painting project I created.

​Read about the project through the links listed below:

My canvas #12 for this October of 2022 ( in addition to my painted canvas #11 also for this October found in the blog “Fine Mined Minerals & Spooky Season”  ) focuses on the elephant and is based on the parable about blind men which touches on the subject of truth or the state of understanding or misunderstanding. 

​A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: "We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable". So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. The first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said, "This being is like a thick snake". For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, the elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk. The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said the elephant, "is a wall". Another who felt its tail, described it as a rope. The last felt its tusk, stating the elephant is that which is hard, smooth and like a spear.
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A review of this parable summary taken from Wikipedia is a reference for my design composition for this twelfth canvas creation. For canvas #12, I continued by then referencing a decades old "back-to-school" issue of a fashion magazine of mine and found this modeling fashion figure that I actually remembered from way back when I got it during my days as a student. This time however, when deciding to paint the girl, I changed her coloring a bit including coloring her jacket in deep blues and purple instead of a grey plaid like the model in the photo was wearing. I also decided to give her an imagined magnifying glass that I conceptually designed with a handle made of ivory.
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From this old back-to-school fashion magazine photo seemingly made to look like it was taken in a classroom,  I replaced a collection of fossils that were against the wall with a posted illustration/painting of a descendant of the now extinct Mammuthus primigenius and the only surviving member of the family Elephantidae. This picture of a mammal that I put in the room may of course be recognized as the presently critically endangered species known as an elephant.

Finally, to complete the composition while tallying a collection of more animals, vegetables, and minerals, I transformed the hand bags that were being advertised in the magazine spread by turning one of them that I suspect was some kind of real or fake reptilian skinned clutch and made it into an action figure sized wall. I then replaced the rest of the purse products with the rest of the isolated elements that the men in the parable mistakenly perceived when attempting to understand or identify an elephant. 
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Other blogs from this October 2022:

Halloween Top Hat 

All Hallows’ Eve Fireplace Mantel
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​This fashion model is understandably from a long time ago.  I found a picture from a 1950’s advertisement featuring a model fashioned with the then growing in popularity "Beehive" hairdo as she highlights pricey jewelry.

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“March On ~ 2022 So Far”

​Approaching canvas #11 during this October of 2022, I took the liberty to adjust the model’s exclusive jewelry collection to keep in theme with the spirit of Halloween season that is upon us. Through a little “on-line shopping” to see what is currently on the market, I gathered a collection of some high-end jewelry to paint and shine light on Spooky Season.

Using the styled jewelry currently for sale online as symbols for the collective “Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral” featured elements in this multi canvas  painting project,  a big pearl and solid gold helped to define the diamond studded spider earrings and create an “animal” feature.

For the “vegetable” element, of course this season’s most popular vegetable, the pumpkin, is elevated through the rarest and most expensive of sapphire gems, the Padparadscha Sapphire Stone ( also known as Orange Sapphire ), to create a sparkling and stunning pumpkin carriage brooch.

For the third mined mineral gem, an actual symbol of a “mineral” in the form of an American flag styled charm bracelet. Similar to the other jewelry pieces adorning this lady, a Swarovski red, white, and blue exclusive crystal charm import which I found online also carries additional seasonal meaning with the patriotic 2022  “first Tuesday in November” vote casting season coming on the heels of “Spooky Season”.

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Find an additional blog for this October 2022 and my Canvas #12 in this series of paintings here:

Canvas #12: “Six Elements Plus Six Green Figurines”

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