Ruby Rue makes makes magnificent stew, though her secret ingredient nobody knew.
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Ghoulies Roberta Baird
Happy Halloween
Trick or Treat!!!
Halloween Thriller
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’alls neighborhood
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
Spent for Illustration Friday
She spent time in her garden!
There once was an old woman who possessed a remarkable “green thumb.” Flowers bloomed, trees bore fruit, the grass was always green on her small half an acre lot…. and yet the land that surrounded her oasis was barren, dry and void of life. The only interruption in the landscape was the lifeless and cumbersome machinery poised to devour the small Eden she had tenderly cared for.
The man who spearheaded the conspiracy, had many times been dismissed. In his gluttony, he conceived a plan to torture the woman by detaching a part her anatomy each time she denied him access to her property. The intent was not to kill, but to terrify.
The first surprise encounter resulted in the loss of a thumb.
When the ambulance arrived to hasten the woman to the hospital for medical treatment, they found her drenched in blood still tending her garden amidst her great pain. Sadly, the woman died en route to the hospital.
While the villain in this evil ambush remained anxious about the woman’s death, the glee in his victory absorbed any thoughts of humanity he had left.
As he surveyed his newly acquired property, he became aware of a sound. A familiar mumbling, a quiet sing song voice of adoration. As he moved into the garden he found her… busily tending to herself in the garden. “You see” she said “Everything I touch grows…. even me ……..”
Adapted from a story first shown on the television series “The Night Gallery“
Ruby Rue
Though her secret ingredient nobody knew
Frog legs and toenails and of course eye of newt
A Spooky Pig and his Banjo
A mummy for Dueling Banjo Pig
Assorted Mummies in my Sketchbook
Pretty gruesome text but beware, that’s the way of the Mummy!
Below is my Miranda Mummy. To read the poem that goes with her click the link below.
http://www.robertabaird.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/10/illustration-friday-string
Pages 23 and 24 of the Sketchbook Project 2011