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.