Ninsar Creations Halloween Post

Since Fall through Winter is my favorite time of the year I wanted to showcase a few Halloween / Fall artworks.  (Both in woodburning and illustration.)

Wood burning of
"Little Witch Opening the Doorway to Feelings, Delights, and the Spirit of Fall"
by Scott Ferry $63 (free shippin in US)
https://etsy.me/2P7SZP0 via @Etsy

As the spaces in-between open up to give conversation to spirits and ancestors the feelings of nature during Fall and Winter come to swirl around us. I just finished this wood burning on Halloween night. Pumpkin vines crawl upwards and around the pumpkin. The witch floats behind with a datura hat giving dominion over dreams. Moons phase between full and new. This is an original illustration and wood burning on basswood. There is a leather cord to hang it on the wall. The artwork is signed and marked by me. Size is 8"x5".

I also have an inktober illustration  :

Wakicowiche (Ritual Clown)

Tōryanse

You may go in, you may enter
Which way is this narrow pathway?

This is the narrow pathway of the Tenjin shrine
Please allow me to go through

Those without good reason shall not pass
To celebrate the 7th birthday of this child
We've come to dedicate our offering
Going in may be easy, but returning would be scary
It's scary, but
You may go in, You may pass through

Long ago there were people who were very poor
that they did not even have rice to eat
in those homes it was such a terrible thing that children had nothing to eat
that their fathers and mothers would kill them before they starved to death.
This is the song of those poor children who were carried away by their mothers to be killed.
It turned out to be scarier for the mother
Because the soul of the murdered child would always follow her.