SPOOKY THEMES
BIG IDEA: Using the instructions below or opening up the attached PDF, follow the written instructions (on PDF) or the visual Instructions to create spooky themed images.
These are strictly guidelines to help you draw better. Use also your own imagination and extra details, as well as adding color.
VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS: How to Draw a Spooky Haunted House
These are strictly guidelines to help you draw better. Use also your own imagination and extra details, as well as adding color.
VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS: How to Draw a Spooky Haunted House
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Examples of Different Haunted Houses:
VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS: How to Draw a Spooky Haunted House
VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS: How to Draw a Spooky Haunted House
Below: Vincent Van Gogh's "Church in Auvers" goes to prove you can make any dwelling look spooky based on how you add detail. Both the lonely wheat fields and the legendary Church of Auvers were painted by Van Gogh and the village’s streets conjure up a ghost-scape of gorgeous artistic impressions.
“House by the Railroad” depicts a building of the late-Victorian style standing silvery and pale under an empty blue sky. It is a tall, steepling structure with ill-proportioned windows and ornate pediments. Cold sunlight strikes the house’s left side casting razor-sharp shadows across the veranda, obscuring the entrance. A railway line bisects the front of the picture, further cutting the viewer off from admittance. It appears to be a house that you cannot reach and cannot enter. Its stillness and desolation make you think of a coffin.
Hopper took aesthetic prejudices and infused them with existential dread. His house is not only out of time but out of place, isolated, empty and alone. He marveled at how houses can be “more moody than nature…in the daytime they have an astonished look; at dusk they are evil, seem to brood over some crime.” Here he created a symbol of domestic melancholy and dread that has since appeared again and again. |
Above: Edward Hopper's, House by the Railroad, 1925
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Below: Artwork with human skulls by Peter Claesv
Below: Artwork with human skulls by Picasso
Black Jug and Skull, 1946
All angular rhythms, sharp edges and strongly contrasting areas of black and white, this macabre print was made on February 2oth, 1946 and can be seen as associated with the suffering and death of the Second World War. |
Skull, Sea Urchins & Lamp on a Table, 1946
The skull is a memento mori, a reminder of the inevitable approach of death. Picasso was superstitious about death, kept a skull in his studio and had included human or animal skulls in his work as early as 1908 |
Below: Artwork with human skulls by Paul Cezanne