Prince Prospero

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero from "Masque of the Red Death"
Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 16

Such a great movie. Its hard to pick a best one out of the Roger Corman / Edgar Allan Poe films, but this one has to be right up there. I finally got a copy of it on Blu ray last year and it looks fantastic. I highly recommend to anyone to pick up the Vincent Price Collection blu ray sets.

The Green Slime

This is a drawing of the monster from this great cheesy 70's scifi flick. I still only have a copy of this on VHS, I wonder if its out anywhere on BLU.

Besides the great battle scenes between space soldiers and an army of monsters the real highlight of the movie might be the theme song.

Grandpa Munster

Another Acrylic portrait, I like trying to find interesting faces to try and paint. I based this off a photo of him I found online, I made the hair and the eyebrows a little wilder than they were in the pic. I really like how it turned out.

More Krampus

The Krampus painting is done. I don't know what I was thinking, giving him blue skin with a blue background, but somehow it seems to have worked out.

Krampus

I'm still trying to keep myself in the Xmas mood so I decided to do some more seasonal artwork. You can find out plenty of information about him online but basically Krampus is the German anti-Santa. While Kris Kringle comes around with gifts for all the good children Krampus comes around with a switch and chains and drags the bad children down to hell. What a great idea, too bad we don't have stuff like this over here in North America.

This is a cool video I found online that really spells it out.

I'm trying my hand at a painting of Krampus, for now I've just got the sketch and color study done. I'll put up the final painting when I get it done.

Santa vs the Aztec Mummy

Its a K Gordon Murray Christmas. I've been watching a bunch of old shitty xmas movies trying to get into the holiday spirit. Specifically the old Mexican "Santa Claus" movie, you know the one with Santa vs Pitch, and "Santa Claus vs the Martians". I was gonna have Santa vs the Robot but somehow the Aztec Mummy popped into my head.

Paintblogging - In The Graveyard Part IIII

Well it took me a couple of months but I finally got my painting finished.

Picking up where we left off before I filled in the color of the characters on the bench. I went with blue for the skin of the Bride and my favorite pea soup green for the Monster. I like how the wrappings on the Bride turned out, but I wish I had made the Monster's head a little thinner.

Now its time to finish off the final tree. It was a pretty big one so I broke it up and did the branches first, then the trunk. The color of the branches is slightly more blue than the trunk but I think I got it pretty close. I also added some vines wrapping around the tree. I was still unhappy about the Monster's eyes so I painted over them in order to redo them.

For the finishing touches I redid the Monster's eyes, making them about half the size they were before. I think he looks a lot better than he did before, he has the blank stare I was going for. I also added some patches of grass around the bases of the trees and the tombstones.

 I have to say I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I'm looking forward to seeing how it will look once I have glazed it.

Now to come up with a new idea.