Thread: Cemetery Art

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I love to collect pictures of "artful" gravestones and decided to start posting them in my album on the forum. The first picture was posted today, but there will be many more to come. If you need inspiration for next year's props check the album occasionally. As new pictures are posted I will bump this post back up to the top. Happy New Year!

Halloween Forum - Madame Turlock's Album: Cemetery Art

A new picture of an ancient crypt was posted in my photo album today. Check it out if you need ideas.

Halloween Forum - Madame Turlock's Album: Cemetery Art

If you want more details about the crypt they are posted in my blog.

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Oh, I'm am so glad you are doing this! I love the pictures so far.

I love this idea. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

have you seen my pictures from a very old cemetary in scotland - dating way back to a viking mound

i love old cemetaries - i find them so peacefull. I'm planning a trip soon to the Necropilis in Glasgow, Scotland - it's just breathtaking there

Originally Posted by witchiepoo

have you seen my pictures from a very old cemetary in scotland - dating way back to a viking mound

i love old cemetaries - i find them so peacefull. I'm planning a trip soon to the Necropilis in Glasgow, Scotland - it's just breathtaking there

I remember those pics witchiepoo ... thanks for posting the link here. Thanks MT for starting this thread ... it will come in handy!

I'm glad you are all enjoying the pictures. Witchie Poo can you save room in your luggage for a stowaway. I really want to go to Scotland but I'm going through a "poor but happy" phase of life right now. (giggle) Why am I giggling....it's really not that fun!

Stay tuned...more cemetery art pictures to come.

Originally Posted by witchiepoo

have you seen my pictures from a very old cemetary in scotland - dating way back to a viking mound

i love old cemeteries - i find them so peacefull. I'm planning a trip soon to the Necropilis in Glasgow, Scotland - it's just breathtaking there

Witchiepo, I wanted to thank you for posting this a while back. I based my ancient tombstones painting technique on this picture you posted. You are the best!:

Very cool stuff.

Here's a tombstone in Ogden Utah that struck me. Odd to see such a new one (2003 IIRC) in the style.



My mom is an author of period romance novels, and many, MANY of our vacations growing up involved touring old cemeteries and finding ghost towns and THIER cemeteries. Taking photos and rubbings (cause names were odd back then).

The one that stands out is Virginia City Cemetery. I have those photos around somewhere in hard-copy. I'll see about getting them up in digital format.

Saturday we spent the afternoon at two cemeteries in Denver. One is just filled with mausoleums. We took pictures and I'll be posting them on our website. It was inspiring. We are planning on adding another mausoleum to our graveyard next year.

I especially like to study the aging so that I can have ours become more and more realistic. It's always interesting to see pictures of headstones from different parts of the world, country, etc. and see how that climate effected the headstones.

Great thread to start!