Halloween Zentangles

Halloween themed Zentangles by author who also took the photo.

Yesterday, the Zentangle group I attend met. We were still making Halloween-themed patterns. One lady had kindly brought some cards which she had divided into various sized rectangles.

The items on my first card are, working clockwise:

1. A pumpkin,
2. My artist’s impression of Grandpa and Herman Munster. These were characters in a popular 1960s spoof of the horror story genre,
3. Wording — “It was never like this in Transylvania”. This was a catchphrase of Grandpa Munster in the 1960s series,
4. Three witches’ hats,
5. A crab,
6. A ghost.

For the pumpkin and the ghost I followed a couple of “how to” videos on the Shoo Rayner Drawing Channel on YouTube. Shoo Rayner is a children’s author and illustrator.

The Munsters was delightfully silly. Herman, the character spoofing Frankenstein said, “I hung around laboratories before I was born” and was said to be a perfect gentleman, in fact “several gentlemen”.

What has a crab to do with Halloween you may wonder. The answer is very little — it was supposed to be a spider but ended up looking more like a crab, so a crab it can be.

For the ghost I was also thinking of Casper the Friendly Ghost but if Wikipedia’s article is anything…