So what are your plans for the weirdness at the end of October? Have you thought about all of the wonderful opportunities for subjects, only available in the Halloween season?
No? Then you’ve missed the boat and will be very sorry when the other artists come out with great works and you’ve nothing of your own to show but the usual subjects.
Halloween brings out the kid in all of us. We dress up, tell ghost stories, make plans for parties and do all of the decorating we used to do for Christmas. That’s right; Halloween has become the second biggest holiday of the year. But for some reason the art world hasn’t caught on.
Now it may be that as artists we live in a world where haints and goblins, ghouls and things that go bump in the night hang around all year and we ignore them. They’re just not important enough for serious artists to tackle. Why, someone might think we were frivolous and we wouldn’t want that to happen.
Or is it because the spirits travel so fast that we’d have to use a camera, or ask a photographer pal to grab a shot or two for us? If it is it is time to get over it.
Jack-O Lanterns now come in all sizes and expressions, What was once a skill parents saved for the night before Halloween is an art form practiced by talented carvers. Making a really unique Jack-O Lantern can be a task worthy of a master sculptor. And the television and news media know it. They’ll have their folks out scouting the great carvers and filling the paper and the human interest segments with Jack’s of all trades.
And all of ghosties and ghoulies walking the streets, (okay, so for safety they’ll be going to private parties and not taking candy from strangers), will you get a chance to use them for one of your future projects?
Don’t forget about all of the young at heart who once a year bring out the fake blood and the fangs and do the Monster Mash, they’ll be making a bee-line to the parties and balls of Halloween. You want to miss them?
Halloween allows all of us to forget the RULES and believe in Vampires and werewolves and enjoy the thrill of scaring the jeebers out of ourselves. So no matter what you are planning for All Hollow’s Eve, get the camera or get a pal with a camera and save some of the sights for the dark days of winter. Remember even Marley shook his chains and rattled his keys at Christmas and you don’t want to be left out, do you?
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