Independent Artists are the BEST! - - -

Greetings, all!

*** Autumn Brilliance magazine was created in 2019 with the intent to extend heartfelt honor, applause, support, bolster and love for original handmade Halloween artistry created by the magnificently talented Artists who make us all smile and gasp as we gaze upon their imaginative works.
*** These independent artists, who design and produce straight from the heart and soul, are forever worthy of high praise. The feeling you will get from holding a special one-of-a-kind original piece of art in your hands (and not a cheap, mass-produced object bought in a discount chain store that came from an anonymous, far-away factory) cannot be put into words because it is truly precious. These original works of art often become family heirlooms, handed down to the next generation.
*** Please consider buying from one of these Artists this holiday season! You will be helping them to put food on the table for their families, to pay rent, and to be able to buy more art supplies to create more unique art - - - and not into some anonymous, greedy corporation's hands.

 

Fall 2024 now available -

 Greetings to all!

We finally have a new shipment of our fabulous Fall 2024 issue now on hand. Follow the link on the left side of this page to order yours.

Call for Submissions for our Fall 2025 issue -

Hello to all!

We welcome all Halloween artists to send in your art submissions for our Fall 2025 issue.

Seeking original, one of a kind creations constructed from (but not limited to) the following mediums: clay, textiles, assemblage, paintings, culinary, bones, wood, metal, and more. Keep in mind that the more unique and unusual, the better chance of being published - and again, NO AI will be accepted. Submissions must be of your own handmade, original art.

Please refer to the information listed below on how to submit and, most notably, the deadline: MARCH 7, 2025

 

 

 

 

Why do we carve pumpkins on Halloween? -

On this Halloween Eve eve, we ask ourselves this very question. So where does this tradition stem from? 

For those who are curious, read about it in the Fall 2021 issue of Autumn Brilliance - learn about the ancient tale from Irish lore, that of old "Stingy Jack" who comes alive on All Hallow's Eve!

- Click on link on left to order your copy - 

* UPDATES *

  * Our Fall 2024 issue reprints have been delayed, due to problems at our printer. 

We apologize for the wait, and will let you all know ASAP when we get our shipment in *

Back in stock again, and just in time for Halloween! 
- Our highly-popular Fall 2021 issue, dubbed "Hag-A-Palooza!" consistently sells out, and no wonder. It's all about the wonderful, strong, resourceful Wise Woman, the witches of both Halloween and real life, from archaic times up to the present. 

- - - We proudly featured none other than the esteemed Marguerite Surich Noschese as our Spotlight Artist, whose hand-crafted witches and other colorful, eccentric personalities spring to life like none other! That's one of her marvelous creations gracing the front cover.

- - -We also presented the incredible Ray Villafane and his other-worldly carved pumpkins and creatures. 

 
- - - And of course, our very special guest, Dolly Parton, who shared a one-of-a-kind interview with us about what it was like growing up in the Smoky Mountains and what she loves best about Halloween. Dolly also shared one of her favorite songs, the bittersweet "These Old Bones," which tells the tale of a lone mountain woman who was considered a witch, from her childhood.

Order your copy by clicking the link to the left! 

 

SOLD OUT: Fall 2021 and Fall 2024 - - -

 

We have more copies of Fall 2024 - - -

 Fall 2024 is now available at our Etsy shop!

We also have restocked plenty of copies of our 

Fall 2022, and Fall 2023 issues.

 ***While supplies last***

Sorry, we're sold out of Fall 2021

<---- Link here on the left

 

 

Back home from the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show - - -

 Greetings, all!
Just one short snippet of thanks here...

    ***Got home late last night from our week-long whirlwind autumn road trip (of which we traversed close to 1800 miles across the country). The culmination, of course, was the wonderful, marvelous, amazing, incredible, magical Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show in Michigan. 

    ***A show we participate in, and look forward to for 365 days every year. We LIVE for it! A place where old friends and new gather under one roof to share fun, humor and love interspersed with the most heavenly hand-crafted art you could imagine. A show that ends way too soon, in my humble opinion... and I know everyone who has attended will agree with this statement.

    ***Cannot begin to express my thanks here - finally got to meet so many wonderful lovely fans of the magazine, it made my head spin like a top. I will post fully in here in the days to come (right now, still completely deliriously overtired). - But for now, a simple offering of my sincere love and deepest gratitude to the woman who brings this loving event into being. - - -> Thank you, Jennie Hepler-Takens, for inviting me into the fold, and for continuing this extraordinary tradition. 

    ***I remain thrilled and honored to be a part of it, and especially so this year because I finally own a piece of Jennie's original art, which spoke to me the moment I laid eyes on it. Everything she creates comes from her very heart and soul - And anyone who knows me knows that I love pumpkins and skellies.

- Rest assured, you all know it will be showcased in the most reverential way among my collection of Halloween art.   

Art by Jennie Hepler-Takens, 'My Dearest Witch'
 

 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH - - -

Greetings to all! 

Our hearts and souls are absolutely brimming over with gratitude! THANK YOU for making our Fall 2024 issue so very special. We feel the love ❤️

 ***WE ARE SOLD OUT***

A temporary thing - more magazines are being printed, and will be available shortly. Please keep watch here, and on our Facebook & Instagram pages, for announcements on when a new shipment of magazines will arrive.

Of course, we will have plenty of copies on hand at the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show on Saturday, September 28th in Marshall, Michigan. Would love to meet you there - please stop by our booth and say hello!.

And don't forget, many of the fabulous Artists who appear in all of the issues of our magazines will be there, too, so you can get your copies autographed! 

Fall 2024 will be AVAILABLE - - -

 Wednesday, September 11th! 

 

Today's Artist Reveal! - - -

 Please welcome, Jill Chambers!

   Jill creates the most unique and striking ornaments that you will ever find. Utilizing her incredible skills as an illustrator, each design is first drawn, then hand-cut with a saw and painted beautifully to make each one pop with personality! You will never seen ornaments like hers anywhere else, each is a mini masterpiece and highly sought after by collectors around the world. 

    Jill designs many one of a kind designs which includes Christmas and other holidays. Her Halloween designs are the highlight of the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show each year in Marshall, Michigan.

    You can see more of Jill's extraordinary works of art in the pages of our Fall 2024 issue, available September 11th!

Our next Artist Reveal - - -

 Halloween greetings, everyone!

 
Today's Artist Reveal comes from halfway around the world. She is in love with all things Halloween, and from her fingertips, true magic is spun!

  Please welcome Yelena Hall, from Kazakhstan

    We're very proud to be able to feature not only established artists, but also the new up-and-coming artists, and when they contact us from beautiful, exotic faraway places, we are thrilled and grateful that our Halloween message has reached them in such locales.

  You can see Yelena's striking, ethereal creations in the Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance magazine.
 

*** AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER ***

It's almost here - - -

Greetings, one and all!    

    Our Fall 2024 issue is in the process of being shipped. Due to the US Labor Day weekend holiday, a slight delay in shipping - we expect to have magazines in stock by week's end.

We'll let you know as soon as it arrives - keep watching here or on our Facebook page!  

Very excited to present our best issue ever... in our humble opinion, of course we're partial to them all! ... featuring 18 of the most incredible Halloween artists you will find on the planet. 

Our next Artist Reveal - - -

Greetings, dear friends!
Our next Artist Reveal is a truly special one, who hails from the majestic Apennines Mountains of Italy's Tuscan-Emilian region. Her art conjures up visions of fairy tales from far-away lands laden with the mists of pure magic.
*** Please welcome, Gioconda Pieracci of Pupillae - Art Dolls ***

Gioconda's handcrafted works of ethereal art will surely whisk you away to that place from where dreams and mighty legends originate.
***You can see more of Gioconda's exquisite artistry in the Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance, available in September***

 

 

This week's Artist Reveal! - - -

 We are happy to welcome Christopher Cox-Thayer!

    If you like vintage-style Halloween art, then you will absolutely love Christopher's unique take on it. 

    Everything he makes is from a homemade papier mache, incorporated with his wonderful sense of humor. Many of his creations are luminaries, meaning they are lit from within, adding a whole new dimension that makes the piece pop with personality. Christopher's art is fast gaining notice among Halloween art collectors everywhere, and we can see why. 

More of Christopher's exceptional artistry can be seen in the Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance magazine, available in September.

 

 

Come to Sleepy Hollow! - - -

 Halloween greetings, everybody!

  Who among us here has ventured to the beautiful village of Sleepy Hollow? The iconic setting for author Washington Irving's immortal classic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, it is best known for the Headless Horseman whose restless ghost still roams the town...  

Did you go during fall, when the entire Hudson Valley area of New York is awash in the most glorious foliage color, and did you stay for the wonderful Parade that occurs at the end of October each year? It is absolutely a Halloween Bucket List for all of you autumn-time travelers!

  We are proud to announce that Autumn Brilliance is one of the Sponsors for the 2024 Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Halloween Parade!  

If you live in the area, or if you are traveling there for the very first time, you simply must see this amazing Parade that the entire village participates in. This year's festivities happen on Saturday, October 26th, beginning at 5pm. Trust us, you do NOT want to miss it. We traveled there during Halloween time in 2017, and are aching to return once again!

    Can't make it? No worries - our Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance features coverage of the 2023 Parade in all its spooky fun colorful grandeur. It's the next best thing to being there.

*Fall 2024 issue 

Available in September!*

Our grateful thanks to the Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Chamber of Commerce! 

https://visitsleepyhollow.com/tarrytown-halloween-parade/

 

 

 

 

And our next Artist Reveal is - - -

 Maren Owens, the wonderfully imaginative creator of Mimi's Ole Nickel!

What can we say, but that we're simply thrilled to the moon and back for this next Artist Reveal - the incredible creations of Maren Owens, "Mimi’s ole Nickel" in the Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance.

  Every single one of Maren's unbelievably vibrant designs nearly jumps out of the computer screen at you, screaming out loud with laughs and cackles. They're so lifelike and just fun, fun, fun. We love them all, and you will, too!

 
***FALL 2024 AVAILABLE in SEPTEMBER!***

Back Issues available! - - -

 Greetings, all -

We have a fresh shipment of back issue magazines now available for you!
🎃 Fall 2021, Fall 2022, and Fall 2023 🎃

If you are going to the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show this September in beautiful Marshall, Michigan, many of the fantastic Artists featured in these pages will be there with their magical creations to bedazzle your eyes and enchant your heart. Bring your favorite issue of the magazine to have them autograph it!

  Pictured below is a peek of just a few of the wondrous artists you'll find in each issue: 

* Samantha Keck, featured in the 2021 issue 

* Jennie Hepler-Takens, featured in the 2022 issue

* Cyn Tennant, featured in the 2023 issue.

 

 

Click the link here to the left to take you to our Etsy store to order yours! 

*** Fall 2024 issue available 

in September***  

Today's Artist Reveal! - - -

 Greetings, everyone! Happy Monday to you all.
Today's Artist Reveal is a very special and quite unique one. We love to look for art that fits into this special category, and we embrace it. 

  Welcome to Anna M. Allen of Aw Shucks Annie Dolls!

Anna masterfully fashions an unusual item from which she creates some of the most exquisite and richly-hued dolls you have ever seen - all from corn stalks! Springtime and summer brings forth beautifully-decorated ladies, and then come the magnificent autumn witches. They all abound in Anna's whimsical corn stalk world. 

You can revel in Annie's remarkable artistry in the Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance magazine, available in September!

 

 

Our next Artist Reveal - - -

  Greetings to all!

  Our next Artist Reveal is a lady whose creations of fine textiles and needle felting transcend the term of mere "art" and instead occupy the realm of super hyper-realism, to the point where you're convinced that her creatures are actual living beings.

  We welcome the stunning fiber artistry of Stevi T!

  Stevi truly is talented. She has a lengthy background working with these materials, transforming them into characters of nature, whimsy and fantasy. You will be amazed at what her imagination and virtuosity conjure up. She never fails to surprise one and all!

 Stevi will again be at the spectacular 2024 Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show, September 28th, in Marshall, Michigan. Won't you please stop by and immerse yourself in her magical domain? You might never leave! 

We're absolutely floored to be able to bring you this breathtaking look into the magical world of Stevi T - you will love her. 

Our Fall 2024 issue 

is available in September 

- you can order here!

 

Welcome to our Cover Artist! -

 Greetings, everyone!

    This is the part where we are most excited, because it means we get to reveal the cover for our Fall 2024 issue of Autumn Brilliance, available in September.

    And, as you know, it also reveals this issue's esteemed Spotlight Artist. That's his magical art here on the cover. Is it not fabulous?!

 Welcome to David Everett, of Chicken Lips!

   You've all seen David's artistry - it's instantly recognizable and one of the most sought-after of its kind in the Halloween collector's world. The image you see on the cover was made specially for California amusement park, Knotts Berry Farm's annual Halloween event in 2022. As you can well surmise, it sold within a matter of moments, literally. Lucky be the person who claimed this charming creation for their very own!

    David's incredible imagination transforms mere clay and paint, perfectly mixing spooky with silly, humor with horror, creating endearing characters that look like they stepped right out of a movie or animated feature. We can never get enough of his fanciful skeletons, hags, witches, crows, zombies... the list is wondrous and extensive, and brings on a serious case of the Halloween happies. If we had a bigger office, we'd get up and do some zoomies around the room!

    We're very proud and again honored to feature a truly stellar artist such as David Everett.

    This extraordinary issue also features an awe-inspiring who's who list of seasonal folk artist whose talents with varied mediums abound (including paint, fabric, textiles, cotton, clay, and even edible food art) who will knock your socks off: 

- Stevi T's fabulous fiber art

- Mandy Palumbo of October Oddities

- Lori DeFazio of Dogs Over the Moon studio

- LeeAnn Kress of Charmed Confections

- Food Network champ & competitor, Corinda Baum of Corinda's Cakery

- Lurena Williamson of Tattered Moon

- Lisa A. Wolf of Wolf Folk Art

- Gioconda Pieracci of Pupillae

- Christopher Cox-Thayer of October Rds

- Jill Chambers of Chambers Art

- Anna M. Allen of Aw Shucks Annie

- Maren Owens of Mimi's Ole Nickel

- Carrie Jahnig of Lichen Lane

- Sharon Bloom of Sharon Bloom Designs

- Yelena Hall of DarkGyre7

- Lori Haney of Running with Scissors

- Gemma Whittle of The Toadstool Keeper

    As always we also present our ongoing regular features:

- Our true ghost story section, Aether (this one is a real doozy of creepiness that you don't want to miss) 

 

- A visit to the ancient Scottish legend, Beware! The Tattie Bogle 

- And coverage of live events from around the country, including the spooky fun of the 2023 Sleepy Hollow Halloween Parade in Tarrytown, New York. 

And on that note, we're positively ecstatic to mention that Autumn Brilliance is one of the sponsors for the 2024 parade - more about that later!

    Look to this page (and our Instagram & Facebook pages as well) to feature more in-depth presentations of these magnificent artists in the days and weeks to come!

Find more of David Everett's world of Halloween wonder at his Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/chickenlips_davideverett/

 

   

Halloween fun in hot July! -

 We couldn't wait for Halloween, so we had a monstrous-sized blast at the Nashville Horror Convention in July! 

  Met up with some old friends, including Borah, the most faBOOloous witch from Salem's Black Hat Society. We originally met Borah in Salem during our visit there during Halloween week, 2016, and it was a lovely surprise seeing Borah in Nashville! 

Fellow "greenie" Borah and me!

  Another good friend we ran into was none other than Drew Badger of the Big Scary Show, who interviewed us again about Autumn Brilliance magazine, and also the exuberant return of our upcoming Halloween art show, Monsters & Merriment. We last were interviewed by Drew in 2019 at the CreepyCon in Knoxville.

Me and the Big Scary Show's Drew Badger

  We even got to meet someone who we have held in absolute awe for decades... the multi-Academy Award winning makeup artist, Ve Neill! 

Meeting the legendary Ve Neill!

Ve's astonishing list of cinematic makeup achievements include so many of our favorite movies, such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ed Wood, and more (her list of award nominations alone is just incredible), What an honor to spend a few moments chatting with this legend, who has so inspired me over the years with her monster makeup techniques!

   Even though it was July, and hotter than the hinges of Hades, we had a grand old time. Doesn't matter what time of the year it is - for us, it's always Halloween!

 

Our next Artist Reveal - - -

Greetings, all!
Today's Artist Reveal is someone whose talent knows no boundaries. 

Please welcome  

Mandy Palumbo, of October Oddities

 
Mandy is adept at working her magic, creating unique clay/mixed-media assemblage sculptures as well as intricate paintings on canvas. She passionately conjures up a proliferation of dark Halloween virtuosity that her collectors around the world seek to call their own. (We're proud to own several of her marvelous works of art in our personal collection!)

  You can see more of Mandy's awe-inspiring creations in the upcoming Fall 2024 issue of AUTUMN BRILLIANCE magazine, available to order here in September. 

Mandy will also be featured among many other fine Halloween artists at this year's Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween art show in Marshall, Michigan on September 28th, 2024.

 

  

 

The countdown continues ...

 

Our next Artist reveal - - -

Greetings, Halloween fans!

  Our next Artist Reveal is someone who is truly special, whose art is the first of its kind to be featured in the pages of our magazine.   

Please welcome, Corinda Baum, a bonafide Food Network champion and competitor!

Corinda has been featured on Food Network's "Halloween Wars," "Road to Halloween Wars," and "Holiday Wars" where we watched her harness her magic by using cake, chocolate, fondant, modeling chocolate (and a wickedly vivid imagination!) to sculpt and craft astonishing Halloween creations that looked more like they were made from clay or plaster, not cake! Take a look at the amazing Krampus cake you see here as evidence of her culinary talents. We would love to sink our fangs into that!

 
Needless to say, we are thrilled to present Corinda's mouthwatering monsters and creepy cakes in the Fall 2024 issue of AUTUMN BRILLIANCE magazine.

 
🎃🖤🎃- - - Available September 2024 - - - 🎃🖤🎃

 

 

We welcome you!

 

                               Welcome to Autumn Brilliance

*** A spectacular, 100 page full color magazine celebrating the magic of Halloween artistry and everything about the fall season, history and lore. We cherish and promote the Artist who creates original, handmade art.

*** Published every September. Available in both printed or digital format. See the links here on the left side of our page for ordering back issues. 

*** We have Fall 2021, Fall 2022, and Fall 2023 available. 

*** Fall 2024 is currently in production, and will be ready for your enjoyment in September.

                                             

               * Remember - NO AI *