How to Create Fantasy Art

Halloween is just two weeks away. It's the time for imagination to soar, for myth and fantasy to take hold, for young and young-at-heart to transform themselves into ghosts, ghouls and goblins. If you've always felt like a superhero, this is the time to dress the part. Oddly, while Halloween has never been a favourite holiday of mine, I'm a huge fan of fantasy and make believe. Since childhood, my vivid imagination has taken the common place in some strange directions. I have been able to take 'what ifs' in life and paint them into pictures with a fantastical brush, an art I honed as a youngster. Also, while my childhood peers were content to play out their fanciful adventures, I loved to put them to paper. I penned tales of love, romance and dastardly deeds. Now, when my husband is a few minutes late coming home, my mind envisions a reason worthy of a Dean Koontz novel. Reading the aforementioned author, a favourite of mine, I'm able to accept