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. 

House

2012-3, oil on canvas, 16x18in.

Red Chair

2011, oil on canvas, 20x24in.

Carnival of Souls

 2013, oil on canvas, 14x16in.

 2013, acrylics and charcoal on paper, 20x25in.

2013, acrylics and charcoal on paper, 40x50in.

The Light Under the Door

2012-3, oil on canvas, 16x18in.

Sequence

In the Middle of the Night (2013), acrylic and charcoal on paper, 50x52in.

from White Zombie

2009, pastel on paper, @16x16in.

Carnival of Souls

2013, acrylic paint on paper, 40x50in.

Thrift store photo

Found this anonymous old photograph in a thrift store on the LES about fifteen years ago.

Robot

2013, graphite, wash, and white highlights, 10x12in.

Mask

2013, graphite and wash on paper, 10x12in.

Countdown to Halloween 2013

Looking forward to a fun and spooky month -- Happy Halloween!

Looking for a ghost in the hallway, 2013, charcoal, 11x15in.

One more, a dollar short, a day late

This is a little two tone drawing done with design brush markers; the image is from a novelization of the Bride of Frankenstein I had as a kid, which was chock full of shots from the movie, and written by some guy whose pseudoynm was Carl Dreadstone.  I had the Werewolf of London one, too, and I remember doing book reports on both. 

So I had planned to post more drawings like the above this year, but Sandy threw my plans off.  I was lucky, my family and I were not affected by Sandy -- we were very fortunate to never lose power, and we're on high ground in Brooklyn, near the park. We even ended up having a good Halloween, with trick or treating going on in our neighborhood.  So we count ourselves lucky in so many ways, and doing what we can to help our fellow New Yorkers get through this.  Hope you and yours had a good Halloween, and we'll see you next year.  You can keep up with my work year round using the links on the right, especially on Triple Apple Day and in my Picasa web albums. 

Blue Phantom

Photo of a blue plastic Phantom of the Opera Guy.

 

Nosferatu

 

2006, charcoal on canvas, 27x39in.

Untitled

 

2005, oil on canvas, 18in square.

Svengali

 

2005, oil on canvas, 8x10in.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

An ink drawing I made for my son a year or two ago.  My favorite A and C movie, by far.  I remember watching their movies every Sunday morning on channel 7 out of Detroit.

Woman and Reflection, 2012, oil on canvas, 16x18in.

Another image from Ghosts of Hanley House. 

Magician's Assistant, 2012, oil on canvas, 36in. square.

Ghosts of Hanley House

 

oil on canvas, 14x16in.

 

Gouache on paper, 10x15in.

 

Gouache on paper, 10x15in.

 

All three works 2012.