The prompt this week for Watercolor Wednesdays is your favorite Halloween character. I decided to do a favorite character that I like to draw. I love drawing simple ghosts like these from last week, but for this prompt I decided to do a mummy, which is also fun. This is a more traditional mummy than the ones I usually do, so I played with texture in the background and added the little dog.
Oh No!
The prompt for Illustration Friday this week was “frozen” and I’ve been trying to create a ghost picture for all the prompts this month. So, what better way to combine the two than to show how much ghosts like frozen treats. When the Mr. Ghostie Cloud-Truck flies by playing music, all the ghosts gather around for treats.
Ghosts love frozen treats, especially ghostsickles.
I decided that a black dog for Halloween might be an interesting change from the usual black cat. I might have to tell a story about this puppy. It also fits the “autumn” prompt for the CBIG blog this month.
Autumn leaves and Halloween pumpkins
The Watercolor Wednesdays prompt this week was a Halloween class party. I painted this one with cut up sponges (except the vampire). I painted the vampire with brushes to set him apart from the rest of the class. I thought the texture would be fun, and it is, except that the painting was too small (8.5 x 11) or the sponges were too big to make it look the way I wanted it to. Still, it’s something I might play around with again in the future, or use brushes to try to re-create the texture.
Eddie was out sick the day Ms. MacDonald’s class decided to dress up as farm animals for the class party. Everyone forgot to tell Eddie when he came back.
Ms. MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
The chicken costume is my favorite. 
The Watercolor Wednesdays prompt for this week is to imagine Frankenstein as a child, so I painted Young Frankenstein with his first monster, FrankenTeddy, and his little dog Frankie. I think Young Frankenstein would have worn PJs with his lab coat over them.
Young Frankenstein and FrankenTeddy
This was the first thing I thought of for this week’s Illustration Friday topic, so I decided to go with it as a b/w cartoon:
Ewwww, germs!
If you can’t read it, the germ is saying, “Eek! Ghosts!”
I’m back from vacation and will be posting my reviews for my vacation books soon.
When I got home, I saw that there were fun new prompts for Watercolor Wednesdays this month. Here’s the painting I did for the “Pumpkin Madness” prompt. It’s mostly watercolor, with a bit of acrylic and pencil too. I’m in a Halloweeny kind of mood already!
Kitty Ghost
Happy October everyone!
p.s. The winner of the contest for Elizabeth Dulemba’s new PB, Soap! Soap! Soap! is Amy Baskin – yay!!
Stephanie Ruble (a.k.a. sruble) is an author and artist. She has been drawing and painting ever since she could hold a crayon and making up stories since she learned to talk.
sruble is currently working on a YA zombie novel and images for her portfolio. For more info, check out her website -
