Poetry in lines and colors

Here comes the Witch , solemn and imperturbable, she is the queen of the realm of the ferocious plants. What kind of magic is she going to put in place with the help of the little black creature at her feet?

Halloween is approaching, and although I do not usually celebrate the occasion, this week's Illustration Friday topic gives me the opportunity to bring out some Gothic mood. Actually, this ghost is quite friendly and far from being scary but its presence brings something unexpected in the static scene, where a pale Emily Dickinson kind of gentlewoman, attended by an aplomb valet, is going to take to the table a bit unattractive watermelon to be enjoyed maybe by the ghost itself. The resemblance of the maiden to the famous Edward Munch's painting should give a disquieting touch to it all. The watermelon? Well, a pumpkin would have been just too obvious.    

What one has to do to escape the rage of two fighting plants! To avoid being involved in this weird boxing match our hero has no better idea than putting on a cat costume and hide himself under the table... Will the plants find him after the knock out?

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him." Shakespeare - Macbeth