Full Moon.

It’s that time of year again.  Halloween madness is right around the corner!  Or already in full swing if you’re inclined to “celebrate” the whole month.  Not that I mind that, as it’s one of my favorite holidays since S was born.  Most probably because it was the first holiday that came up after her birth.

After my last painting and the lengthy blog post, I needed to try something quicker, easier, and requiring less of an essay to explain.  So I decided to try out another app, called iOrnament on my IPad.  And get into the Halloween spirit by making some simple Halloween patterns and scribbles to share, along with some apropos photos. I’ve quite enjoyed learning about patterns or as Jürgen Richter-Gebert, (mathematics professor at the Technical University of Munich, and creator of the program used for the app) refers to them, wallpapers.  Although the mathematics aspect does go over my head some what (I’ve never been that gifted in that subject).  Either way it’s interesting to read and fun and easy to use my daughter has even made some patterns).  It also also reminded me that at some point I would love to design fabric prints.  I think that would be fun, if not just because its bringing me back to fashion design which I loved.

Daddy Pumpkin, Mummy pumpkin, and Baby Pumpkin.  Our first Jack O’Lanterns after S was born.

So here are some Halloween themed patterns or wallpapers, which ever you would like to call them.

Beetles, Beetles everywhere.  Beetle inspired pattern in black and white.

Dancing Spiders.  Probably my biggest foe on planet earth.  I am not embarrassed to say I suffer from pretty bad arachnophobia.

Cobwebs.  Because when you think of Halloween, there has to be spiders and cobwebs.

Zoomed out image of the above cobweb pattern.

Bat print.

A less symmetrical cobweb print, complete with spiders.

Jack O’Lantern faces.

A close-up of one of the Jack O’Lantern faces.

Bats, second attempt.  More details in the silhouette of these bats and the spacing is different.

A zoomed out capture of the second bat print above.

Swirls in darkness.  I was trying to create an abstract interpretation in print, of a night sky.  My intention was to use it in another image.

Cats eyes circle print.  Inspired by cats eyes.  Overlapped in a circular fashion.

Zoom out of the same, cat eyes circle print.

Spider meeting.  Eight spiders of red and green.

Spiders meeting as a print.

It was really enjoyable and relaxing just doing whimsical and nonsensical prints and doodles, after all the energy the Newfoundland beach painting took.  I also really enjoyed playing at patterns.
I think in the near future I would have fun playing with fabric print patterns.

But for now I’ll just wish you all a happy Halloween.