Saturday, 27 October 2018

October 27 - 27th Day of 31 Days Halloween


This year Leigh is hosting 31DOH!

🎃LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃
Oct 1 - 31, 2018

The Blog Hop  linky party opens Oct 1st at 5 past midnight PDT and ends at 5 to midnight on Oct 31st!
  

For more details go to

🎃 LeighSBDesigns annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

I will be sharing today's Halloween make on Leigh's page...

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Today I am showing you some more of my main 31DOH project illustrating


The Hunting Of The Snark -  a Poem by Lewis Carroll



I posted the last few pages on Day 22 and finished with:



Here are the next few pages:

The first edition of The Hunting of The Snark was illustrated by Henry Holiday - the first three pages show his pictures of the Bellman, Baker and Billiard Marker which I used in ATCs. (Assorted backgrounds on the ATCs - scraps from my Worktable)
The papers used are from Tim Holtz or The Other Side (Craft Box).





On the left hand side of the next double page is a piece of background made in the same way as the cover - using acrylics and alcohol. I added a face with a fineliner...



As the poem gives no idea of what a Snark looks like (nor did Henry Holiday as Lewis Carroll wanted to leave it to the imagination), my idea is to add some pages with ideas of what a Snark might look like...

The left hand side here has a Brusho background with a Visible Image stamp embossed in black upon it.



The next page show another of Henry Holiday's illustrations.



This monster appeared when an acrylic pour was done on photograph paper.



Finally another ATC using a Henry Holiday picture of the Banker.



More soon...

SPOT PRIZE Number 3

I asked you... from which poem is the follow stanza?

Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling, 
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! 
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, 
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! 

The answer...The Pumpkin by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

I had many correct answers
 so my daughter did the honours of picking a name out of the hat 



The Winner is

Mary Lou 

Please email your address to
susanrenshaw0404@gmail.com -
and your prize will be in the post...

Watch out for the next SPOT PRIZE!!

Happy Hopping!





10 comments:

  1. I must read the poem about the Snark, my education has been lacking!

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  2. Awesome project! I love all the pages you're showing in the post!
    Congrats to Mary Lou!

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  3. Superb project :-D Congrats to Mary Lou x

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  4. Fab project Susan x congrats Mary Lou x

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  5. Such a fabulous project, your book. Love everything about it.

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  6. Give my thanks to your daughter.
    the pages are spooktacular.
    thanks for sharing your book
    with us - it's a shame the
    month is almost over.
    thanks for sharing.

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  7. Love your Snark book, I think the yellow monster from the acrylic pour is the perfect intrepretation of the Snark. Your book is awesome!!! Congrats Mary Lou!

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  8. FaBOOlous Snark poem book Susan, what a treasure!

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