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!