Witch Hat Jack-o'-Lanterns

Halloween & Autumn · 16 paintings · 2 hours

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Halloween Frame TV art for the last two weeks of October: sixteen original haunted-field scenes of jack-o'-lanterns in witch hats, in 4K, seven and a half minutes each. Two silent hours with no music and no narration, made to leave running as a screensaver on a Samsung Frame TV or any 4K screen.

Every jack-o'-lantern in this collection wears a witch's hat - tall, black and wide-brimmed, with the tip bent over as if it has already been through a few Halloweens. They are out in an old field after dark: sitting round a steaming cauldron, lined up along a ridge against a rising harvest moon, peering out of a cornfield, half sunk in ground fog, perched in the branches of an old apple tree.

It is spooky the way a good Halloween is spooky - mist, crows, a black cat, bare trees and bats crossing the moon - but nothing in it is meant to frighten anyone, and every face is grinning. The light is the whole idea: cool violet night everywhere, and the warm orange glow of the pumpkins pushing back against it.

It is made for the last two weeks before Halloween.

The 16 paintings

  1. The Haunted Field at Moonrise
  2. The One on the Stump
  3. Around the Cauldron
  4. Along the Ridge
  5. Under the Crooked Oak
  6. In the Cornfield
  7. Brooms by the Wall
  8. A Hat Too Big
  9. The Windmill in the Afterglow
  10. The Gathering
  11. Out of the Fog
  12. Bats Across the Moon
  13. Among the Thistles
  14. The Cat Under the Apple Tree
  15. At the Edge of the Wood
  16. The Field at Midnight

How to watch on your TV

No Frame TV needed. Open the YouTube app on any smart TV (Samsung including The Frame, LG, Sony, TCL, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast), find this collection on the Quiet Frame TV channel, press play and go full screen. It runs for hours in silence, so you can leave it on as wall art. More on watching

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