Final day of October #PAICtober25 “TRICK OR TREAT”

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Stay safe and have a fun night!

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For day 28 of #PAICTober25 “SPOOKY TREE WITH FACES IN THE BARK” in Tom’s Studio Black 60, Visconti Stilographico, water and bleach. I forgot that it was plural “faces” so I added a profile on the right. Inspirations started with samurai face armor, but also a bit of Twin Peaks and Janus

Oops, almost forgot to post day 27 here (smoke from a bottle for #paictober25). It started out as an idea that flopped and then I added Kuretake granulating orange-green, which made the skin dead green, but under UV it turned almost a happy mix of fluorescent colors.

For Day 23 of #paictober25 the prompt was “MONSTER FACE MADE OF CANDY”

I couldn’t make a candy face so instead I imagined a Pacific Stargazer (an ambushing fish) in humanoid form that hid in your candy dish instead of in sand. It waits for prey to come to its attractive bait and…
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Day 15 “Candle melting into a ghostly shape” for #PAICtober25

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