Sequin Effect with Photoshop

This piece was inspired by the drapo flags unique to Haitian Vodou art. Once I decided on the design, which incorporates the ritual symbol for the loa Agasou, the challenge was to make the image look like it was crafted out of sequins like a real drapo. After a bit of trial and error, I finally figured out a way to give the image the effect I was looking for.

Love Puppet, I Mean Poppet

The making of Voodoo dolls, poppets, fetishes, and ritual effigies has taken place since antiquity. Though the practice is ancient, their present use remains similar.

Poppets can be used for healing purposes, promoting health, finding love, creating happiness and good luck, for protection, for binding, cursing, and to manipulate energy in numerous other ways. Poppets comes in several forms, including wax, cloth, paper, wood, root, and clay.

Today's Voodoodle was inspired by one of the vintage poppets that can be found in the New Orleans Voodoo museum. This style of Voodoo doll used to be quite popular in New Orleans. He has a red pin for love and a white pin for attracting love to him.

Baron Samedi

This is another work in the Voodoo veve series I am doing. My goal is to do my interpretation of several of the loa's ritual symbols. This one is for the Lord of the cemeteries, Baron Samedi. This guy loves to party, and is partial to dancing, cigars, and rum. But don't let that fool you, he is also a fierce protector of children, so all you perps out there better watch out.