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Welcome to the FUN HAUS! A celebration of life, through death.
Upon entering, the curtains to the afterlife will be parted. You will face your greatest fears and will come out more alive than ever!
I have always been drawn to those colorful clay Mexican Day of the Dead skeletons, and Mexican style in general. There is so much oportunity to use patterns and crazy color schemes. I find that these translate very well into Lego. Not to mention that the fantasy castle skeleton faces make great Day of the Dead faces.
When I was younger I didn't understand what the Day of the Dead really stood for. I just thought the skeletons were kind of creepy and possibly evil. But the more I learned about it, I found it was really a celebration of Life. For one day and night (November 1st) families gather to remember all the friends and relatives that have passed away. They make decorative altars, use marigolds to decorate their homes, and make tons of skull themed food items. People visit the graves of their loved ones and leave gifts of food. There is singing and dancing, and a parade as well, where people dress up in fancy skeleton costumes with elaborate face painting. It is all very cool!
The Fun Haus captures some of the flavor of the Day of the Dead celebrations. But as with most of my works, there is a twist.
It is also influenced by the paintings of Pooch. Pooch is a very interesting artist with a great eye for making what I would call personality portraits, each with a mandatory roller coaster, pop culture elements and a taste for the macabre. Just like Day of the Dead, very cool!!
I highly recommend his website. www.poochisland.com/ Be sure to check out the Thrill Rides.
Fun Haus! is my attempt to combine these two elements, put them into a Moc that would hopefully be accepted into the Town and Train category at Brickcon, include a bunch of power functions features and hopefully entertain all of you!
Just for fun... White echinacea
Thank you everyone..wow!....such a nice response to such a fun little painting!
This was done in the following steps...pencil sketch...paint...ink..more paint...more ink.
The background was done on wet paper...then paint...then WATER SPRAY MIST...more paint..more spray..tipping paper...letting it run and some blotting....:) Why I called it a fun painting...:) One of my favorite things about Watercolor....so many techniques that make the magic!
"Well she got her daddy's car
And she cruised through the hamburger stand now
Seems she forgot all about the library
Like she told her old man now
And with the radio blasting
Goes cruising just as fast as she can now
And she'll have Fun Fun Fun
'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away
Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away" - Brian Wilson
Please View On Black. Thanks!
my daughter and her partner are in Brisbane for a few days and we had some fun taking images around West End.
Car: Skoda Fun pick up.
Year of manufacture: 1999.
Date of first registration in the UK: September 2014.
Place of registration: Manchester.
Date of last MOT: 15th December 2020.
Mileage at last MOT: 70,630.
Date of last V5 issued: 29th September 2014.
Date taken: 21st July 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
Self portrait
I've only recently discovered how many possibilities and fun the loft really is. The only empty room in the whole house where no one ever goes to, the only thing about it, is that there in no heating and specially at night is surprisingly cold.
PS: Like a lot of my photos, this one is also named after a music album or song ;)
I am sure the two that took their first flights this morning totally enjoyed the freedom of the air, but were very glad to get back to the nest.
While I was making a Bumbleberry Pie, my husband sat at the table, enjoying homemade lemonade I'd just finished pouring for him. I had added some blueberries & crushed raspberries. When the lemonade was gone, he added sparkling water and watched as the blueberries began to bob up and down. I grabbed my camera & voila! Blueberry Face!