Spooky Art

Spooky Art

Brandy Rumiez's painting, "Dearly Departed," evolved from a sketch Rumiez produced about a year ago of a headless doll holding her head in her arms. "I didn't want the doll to be plain," she explains. "I wanted it to be based on someone who at one time could have been alive. One day I turned on the television and Beetlejuice happened to be playing. When it got to the seance scene, I got the bride and groom idea. Not only did the doll have to be a bride but it had to be haunted by the ghost of a real bride. I tied that idea in with the wedding portrait in the background. To keep the bride from being lonely for all of eternity I added the groom ghost as an afterthought hiding in an urn."

"Dearly Departed" is on display through Nov. 13 at the Candy Apples & Razor Blades show at Bear and Bird Gallery in Lauderhill.