Month of Fear

A weekly art challenge for October

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Black Magic Woman

inspired by: VCTRYS - Black Magic Woman (Santana Cover)

there was a lot going on in my head while listening to this song so among all sketches (3) I chose this one to make a painting of

Uncensored version — https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aYKZAq

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I love it so much, especially this one with playlist 💔

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Inspired by The Killing Moon/Demons By Emilie Majarian

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Title: "Please forgive me, I've got demons in my head" Song: Demons by Hayley Kiyoko8in x 10in. Oil on board. This song is one of my favorites from the Month of Fear's playlist. It's so awkward but the theme is extremely familiar! Our minds are powerful things, sometimes they give us genius ideas but they also can create dangerous thoughts that at least, to me, they make me feel like I have intruders in my own mind. These awful, crazy things that they even use the sound of my voice to convince me I'm dumb, I'm awful, that I will never taste success, that I'm being judged all the time. They laugh at me and make me feel just damn bad. But we gotta keep smiling right? Living, existing out there in society. That's what feels scary to me. The awkwardness of keeping those demons at bay while we try to look like functional human beings. Website Shop Twitter

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ORiGINAL ART available here: :   Werewolf - Unframed Watercolour Painting Name 'Good Boy' Inspiration from Bad Moon Rising in the playlist. I tried as hard as I could to make something scary, but this adorable little guy appeared. website:   www.emilyhare.co.uk

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Until Death Unites Us Again

Reiko Murakami

Inspired by "Don't Fear The Reaper". 

I always thought death is the end of our journey and something to be feared. However after watching a documentary about near death experiences, it changed my mind. One person on the show said she felt welcome as if she's going home, like the place was where she actually belongs. Thinking death as being reunited with our loved ones and spiritual peace makes it easier to live and appreciate everyday more I think. Knowing we will be welcomed home at the end allows us to drop our fear for future and focus on what we have in our current life. So, until the day comes, let's live in the moment.

It's been a blast to join the last MOF this year. It's such an honor to be in this community you started, thank you so much Kristina! I've had multiple pieces from MOF that pushed my career to higher level. Many of my Spectrum pieces are in fact from MOF as well. I also discovered and friended many artists through this. Thank you again for creating this community. I really appreciate it. Now I'm back in town, let me know when you have time to hang out!

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Title: Seven Devils

Inspired by: Seven Devils—Florence and the Machine

  While listening to the song my brain couldn’t let go of the image of a crown made from fire—and devils. Add a little bit of exorcism and, voilà, this is the result.

You can find my portfolio here: https://janaheidersdorf.com

Note: True to form I’m using the Month of Fear to stretch myself creatively by trying out new techniques and tools. This year I’m doing so as part of a creative development project sponsored by the BKM, VG Bildkunst and Neustart Kultur. Thank you for having my back! 

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Untitled Piece inspired by: Poe, "Haunted"

Come here.... No I won't say pleaseOne more look at the ghost before I'm gonna make it leave

I tend to be too literal when I am given assignments, even within what are intended to be more "free-form" projects-- perhaps out of a fear of disappointing others,  and it's something I really want to change about myself.So this time, I really wanted to do a more symbolic, emotional piece which explores more of what the song made me feel or think rather than what it might be specifically saying.I imagined this was a song about someone whose spouse has died, and they remain wrapped in the memory of their touch, their smell, their everything. Their favorite room is untouched, their clothing still folded in drawers.I wanted to make an image about someone facing their love for the final time, and gently beginning the process of pulling away from the comfort of sadness and rejoining the world. Misery would love to keep us in its grasp--sometimes we don't know who or what we would be without it--but the work of healing eventually must be done.

Ashley Hankins

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Laura Siadak / Matthew Siadak

fallenlights.net / backwardsknight.com

When going through the list of music, I kept repeating the two songs about bones - Pet Sematary and Dead Man's Bones. My idea kind of literally spiraled, like Alice in Wonderland down the Rabbit hole. When I was a child, most of my nightmares were about falling down holes full of stuff, so for colors I went with how my mind usually tinges nightmares if there's any color at all. The piece was made with plant based watercolors. The writing was created at the same time as the sketches, which were then added directly into the piece, layer by layer.

She stood on the precipice, her heartbeat little more than a stutter in her chest. The hole in the ground had started like the whisper in her heart, but day by day the two grew in tandem. Gazing upon the spiraling descent made her head swim, and her foot hovered. - Matthew Siadak

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Inspired by Black Magic Woman & Season of the Witch By  Emilie Majarian

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32. NO ONE LIVE FOREVER

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Remember ‘The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’? You know, from 'Forbidden Zone’? How about the abbreviated 8-piece 'Oingo Boingo’? Maybe with neon spelling out their name while they perform for Rodney Dangerfield and Robert Downey Jr. in 'Back to School’? Or maybe Lucifer himself - Danny Elfman - composing film scores and singing in Henry Selick’s ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’? Maybe you remember them... maybe you don’t. But one thing is certain - no one (no one no one no one no one) lives forever*.

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*Possibly exempted is the Simpson’s theme - some deals with certain devils really do break the bounds of known reality.

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Nine Lives

Reiko Murakami

This week's piece is from "Pet Sematary". Originally I was going to use the frame for a different piece, but I didn't like how it looked together when I tested it and decided to make a new piece for the frame instead. The background of this piece is rendered darker than my usual scale for this reason, to match the contrast of the frame. "I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery/I don't want to live my life again" was a catchy phrase; I wanted to make art about it. They say cats have nine lives, and I have the sparkly acrylic to have fun with, so here we go. 9 simmering metallic paint eyed cat. Reiko Murakami

Website: www.reikomurakami.com

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Haunted by Julia Griffin

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Poe's "Haunted" paints a picture of someone struggling with the shadows of their past. I chose to depict that past as a huge, mysterious figure, looking down on the woman below her with unknown emotion and intent. The past looms so large that it is impossible to avoid.

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23. Love Song for a Vampire

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The year was 1983 and Annie Lennox came to me in a vision. I was shaken. And stirred. Since then, many of my sweet dreams have come true, and I’ve travelled the world (and the seven seas). I’ve come out the other side much changed and everything looks different from where I stand today. Well… almost everything.

Miss Lennox remains perfect. Young, pale, and smashing in her crisp suit and perfect tie, riding crop in hand. She remains unchanging and unchangeable - bewitching and beguiling. I know that pictures lie, and I know that the camera doesn’t really steal one's soul, but that vision remains as powerful - more powerful - than ever.

So let us raise our rose-tinted glasses to the ageless Miss Lennox. Here’s blood in your eye!

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For more art sacred and profane, iconic and iconoclastic, ridiculous

and

sublime, please visit

www.leemoyer.com

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Title: The Rarest Rose Inspired by: Love Song For A Vampire—Annie Lennox Just some romantic vampire indulgence. You can find my portfolio here: https://janaheidersdorf.com Note: True to form I’m using the Month of Fear to stretch myself creatively by trying out new techniques and tools. This year I’m doing so as part of a creative development project sponsored by the BKM, VG Bildkunst and Neustart Kultur. Thank you for having my back! 

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Undead! Undead! Undead!

Reiko Murakami

This one is for Bauhaus'  "Bela Lugosi's Dead". I immediately fell in love with this song when I listened to it the first time on the playlist. This song felt right up in my alley and I just needed to make some art with it. There are few technical things I wanted to experiment in this piece (nice thing about MOF, I can take risks comfortably in projects like this). The coffin shape composition made by masking is one of them. I wasn't sure if the usual tracing paper technique holds or not, but the layering seemed to survive just fine. Oh, and around his face is the gold tinted acrylic I tried on last week's piece. He radiates as you walk by it. --------------------------------------

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Tom Waits has been sleeping rough and pacing the cold cold ground for decades. I hope he will pardon this elision of his lyrics: "I come in on the wings of a magpie ‘cross this hooligan nightI cooked up a mess o' mulligan and got into a fight Whistlin' past the graveyard, steppin' on a crackI'm a mean Mother Hubbard, Papa One-Eyed Jack You probably seen me sleepin’ out by the railroad tracksGo on and ask the prince of darkness what about all that smoke come from the stack I’m gonna tear me off a rainbow and wear it for a tieI ain’t never told the truth, so I can never tell a lie.” https://www.leemoyer.com/

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This one is called “decadent decay” and it was the first tiara for the Month of Fear art challenge. Sara Felix

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