Masked Woman

2014, oil on low-grade plywood, @10x13in.

Happy Halloween! 

The Creature from the Black Lagoon

2014, crayola crayon, @8x11

Ape Mask Xmas Cards

Available here. 

The Creature from the Black Lagoon

2014, crayola crayon, @10x8in.

The classic three quarter profile.

Werewolf (detail), (Return of the Vampire)

2014, charcoal and gouache 

Vampires (Dracula's Castle)

2013, gouache, ink, charcoal, and pastel, @11x15in

Robot (The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy)

2014, oil on low-grade plywood, @10x13in.

The Phantom of the Opera

2014, charcoal and gouache on grocery bag paper, @10x8in.

The Obligatory Jack-o-Lantern shot

Vampire with bloody chin (Dracula's Castle)

2014, gouache, ink and charcoal, @ 11x15in.

The Knife II (Nightmare Castle, White Zombie)

2014, charcoal, ink, gouache, @30x42in.

The Knife I (Nightmare Castle, White Zombie)

2014, gouache, charcoal, ink, 22x30in.

Untitled (White Zombie)

2014, gouache and charcoal on grocery bag paper, @8x12in.

Murder Legendre (White Zombie)

2014, charocoal, ink, and gouache, @8x12in.

(Happy Birthday, Bela Lugosi)

from White Zombie

2014, charcoal, ink, and gouache, @8x12in.

House (Dead People)

2014, charcoal and gouache on grocery bag paper, @10x14in.

Staircase (Ella, Lucifer y Yo)

2014, ink, gouache, charcoal, @25x42in.

Muriel Arrowsmith (Nightmare Castle)

2014, charcoal, ink, and gouache, @9.5x12.5in.

Blonde Hypnotist

2014, charcoal and gouache, 22x30in.

from Return of the Vampire

2014, charcoal and gouache, @ 10x13in.

Vincent Price

2011, charcoal, @13x10in.

Masked woman note card

2014, linocut with watercolor on card stock. Available here.

Zombie (White Zombie)

2014, ink, gouache, and charcoal, @7x10in

Such an interesting monster

Sequence, Hallway (Ghosts of Hanley House)

2013, ink, watercolor on Japanese paper scroll, each image @8x10in.

Monster carrying woman, handmade linocut card

2014, linocut with watercolor on card stock. Available here.

A Few Words

So I'm a painter, living and working in Brooklyn since 1991. There are links to more work on the right. A few years ago I started this blog just to take part in Countdown to Halloween. Since I work with imagery from B movies in the public domain, sometimes I post work here that I've already made that fits the seasonal bill. But it's more fun to post work that I make specifically to share here, as with most of what I'm posting this year. It takes me back to my days as a kid in Toledo, watching Detroit monster movie host Sir Graves Ghastly in the basement, drawing epic monster battles on reams and reams of newsprint paper. I work mostly in the same style I use for my paintings, smudged and scraped and painterly, and sometimes I use random pictures from movies, sometimes I pick them more carefully. Generally I like the quiet moments, and the weird, and the funny. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy what you see here. Happy Halloween....

Apparition (Nightmare Castle)

2014, charcoal and gouache on grocery bag paper, @9x8in.

Mob with Torches (Phantom of the Opera)

2014, charcoal, ink, and gouache, @30x42in

Two Frankenstein's Monsters

Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. 2012, charcoal on gessoed paper, @10x13in

Sleepwalker

Linocut on card stock with watercolor and gouache. Available here.

Candelabra (Return of the Vampire)

2014, charcoal, ink and gouache on grocery bag paper, @8x12in

Nightmare Castle

2014, charcoal, ink and gouache, @ 7x11in.

Linocut Halloween Card

Gorilla mask, 2014, linocut with watercolor on card stock, 

Available here.

Werewolf (Return of the Vampire)

2014, charcoal with white gouache, @10x12in. 

Nosferatu

2014, charcoal, gouache, and ink on paper, @11x8in.

Masque of the Red Death (Phantom of the Opera)

2014, charcoal, ink, and gouache on paper, @7x11in.

Countdown to Halloween 2014

Caramel Apple Day is happy to take part again this year, so keep your eyes peeled.



John Rozum's way cool cut paper creature, above, is the link to the countdown page, where you'll find all kinds of great Halloween funtime sites.

Halloween cards

Available here.