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Hand Painted Halloween Outsider Art

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Group:Halloween Spooktactular
Swap Coordinator:Wanda (contact)
Swap categories: Art 
Number of people in swap:3
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:August 1, 2011
Date items must be sent by:August 22, 2011
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

This swap is for hand-painted outsider style art in a Halloween theme. What is outsider art? It is art by the self-taught (or appearing so) artist outside of the mainstream. It may be characterized by it's naive, innocent, flat, primitive look. It is unsophisticated and unrefined. Sometimes the artist is visionary, intuitive or eccentric. If in doubt, google the term and see definitions and images of outsider art.

Before you say you can't paint, go look at some outsider art on YouTube (StevenChandlerArtist) or Flickr or Google(Howard Finster, Leon Kennedy, WillardJ, Mary Proctor). Search Southern Outsider Art or Southern Folk Art, too, and you will find so many visionary outsider examples. http://www.visionaryart.com/outsider-artists.aspx

Naturally the theme will be Halloween. :) Anything Halloween. You will be painting on an 8"X10" piece of cardboard. It can be thick box cardboard or thinner food box cardboard. Or you can use posterboard.

This is sender's choice so you can start on your painting right away.

Discussion

Wanda 08/ 3/2011 #

Even though I intended to start on mine a week or more ago, I just started on it today. Finally. Well, I did get the 8X10 cut and gessoed right at first, and came up with an idea and sketched it out on paper, but I just started on the actual painting today. If everything goes well, I may be finished by the beginning of next week. Sooner, if I get some mojo going. Actually, I am doing two of these at the same time - a Halloween themed one for the group swap, and a non-themed one for a regular version of this swap.

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