Autumnal impressions

Not long ago I went to the "Europa-Park" the biggest funpark in germany because every year they have a nice halloween decoration. This time I was really lucky, because we had most of the time excellent weather which allowed me to shoot some nice Light/Shadow pictures (and some funny stuff too). Even the Eurosat, a big dome in which a rollercoaster is settled is decorated fitting to halloween.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween,
pumpkins scream in the dead of night

It was a funny day and after we returned home, the view from our kitchen granted me another (spooky) view:

If I only could paint somethink like that!

Some more picture heavy stuff after the break!


As always, mother nature is the best teacher for your painting style and as the sun stood low it casted some insane shadows on the decoration which should help me to get a better feeling for (strong) shadows on miniatures:

Pumpkins in the sun

My wife told me the right one looks like me!

But there where also some pretty cool artificial animals, made out of a steel framework and pumpkins. These gave me a basic feeling for rust and lichen on bended surfaces:

Pumpkin donkey

Pumpkin pig

I wonder if I can use this for some of the things on my painting table.

Last but not least some funny stuff. Ever thought of a pyramid made out of pumpkins? Me neither, but the gardeners from Europa-Park did!

Walking like an egyptian

And my last picture, a funny (or scary?) corncob!

Corncob will eat you!

You can see I had a great day. I rode for the first time a catapult rollercoaster (Wheeeeeeeee!) and enjoyed this sunny day a lot.


So long,
Paradox0n

P.S.: Some more tabletop related stuff will come soon, I just have to shoot some photos for my next part of my "Hobby Basics" series ;-)