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.

Paintblogging - In The Graveyard Part III

Well its been a month so it must be time again to check in on the status of the painting.



With the background finished I decided to start on the ground. Just like I did with the sky
I filled the whole area in with a flat black.

Then I went with the sponge and filled in the colors I wanted. I went with a blueish gray
for the most part, and lightened it up and added in some yellow for the light coming off
the lantern. I like using the sponge when painting things like the ground or the sky, it
really makes a nice looking texture.

I finished off the tree on the far right and three of the tombstones. Then added in the
vines.

The last tombstone and the bench were done in the same style as the other tombstones. I
tried to dab in a bit of yellow to look like light from the lantern. And lastly I've
started on Frankie's outfit. I'm going with the classic fuzzy vest look from "Son of
Frankenstein"

Tune in again soon for another update.

Trio of Terror

These old vacuform plastic masks and smocks are something that really puts me in the mood for Halloween. I remember wearing these as a kid. Although when I was growing up we didn't have the old monsters but instead we had mainly costumes from the newly released Star Wars movies.
I went out one year as E.T. I wish I still had that old costume.

Treehouse of Horror

Every year around Halloween I like to do a drawing based on the Treehouse of Horror episodes of The Simpsons. Working in chronological order I try to do something one of the small stories or the wraparounds from each episode. I just finished this years picture and I've already started thinking about next year.