Yay! It’s Halloween, my fav-o-rite! From current celebrations to Halloween’s incredibly rich pagan history across many cultures and groups of people and religions, the close of summer and the end of the harvest is an incredibly powerful and interesting time. Be a dork like me and learn more here: Halloween Wikipedia entry.

Here are a few vintage Halloween postcards that I’ve found around the web and really love. I’m just fascinated by how many postcards used to be produced to commemorate nearly every day. And as always with vintage postcards, the emotional and stylistic gamut they run is so interesting.

We’ve got your spooky (above) and your portraiture (below) It's like a family photo.

A little classic witchery, complete with some amazing characters in the cauldron’s smoke. Witch & kitty & friends.

A touch of what the…??? The traditional Pumpkinhead Baby & Owl BFFship. Rad pumpkin cart!

Sage advice from the Greeks to us. A little Victoriana is always found in postcard art: Vintage Sexy Witch, omg! Some things never change. And this gem that has a lot more in common with Halloween’s ancient thematic roots of the harvest and fear of winter than most of things we see now: So, enjoy!

Happy Halloween scary blast from the past. Poor Pluto!

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Sisters Red, by Jackson Pearce & my book cover design

Posted on October 30, 2009 by strawberryluna New puppy released, introducing: Sprite!

Posted on October 16, 2009 by strawberryluna And moved onto The Carrot: Thanks for reading and meeting Sprite!

The American Human Association (US)

The Humane Society (US)

The SPCA (International)

Best Friends Animal Society New art print released: Fall 2009, in 2 colorways!

Posted on October 1, 2009 by strawberryluna Hand screenprinted, 4-color love letter to fall. Click for more details or to purchase.

Fall & Autumn, my favorite 2 seasons. So, I’m not at all surprised that while in the process of hand printing this art print, I decided to do two colorways of the same print. This is the fourth print in series of seasonal, limited edition prints that I’ve been doing all year. That’s right, they fit the number of seasons, crazy right?!

Anyhoo, here you see both colorways, the above as planned 4-color design with metallic gold leaves, (edition of 75) and the below with frosty, nay, ghostly white negative space leaves. A harbinger of things to come (a smaller edition of just 25). The leaf shapes are from leaves that I gathered on a dog walk and scanned in at home a couple of years ago. I love their shape and definition.

Click either image for more details or to purchase, cause those clicks will take you right to my website. Hand screenprinted, 3-color love letter to fall. Click for more details or to purchase.

And, here are a few cruddy phone-photographs of the print in progress while on press: First color, orange, being printed. 2 colors completed, things are shaping up! 3rd color, the brown of the tree. This is where I started thinking about splitting the edition in two.
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