Pickles - watercolor

watercolor; 2020

available; 11"x15"

      Pickles is just misunderstood. Or, maybe he's the one that misunderstands.

Delicious - pencil

pencil, 2019

available, 8"x10"

      Happy Halloween! This is a sketch for a painting I haven't had time to get to before the unholy horrorday.

Skully - pencil

pencil, 2019

available, 8"x10"

     I caught Skully in just the right light for a sketch.

Chatterly - graphite wash

wet graphite, 2019

available, 8"x10"

      A portrait of dear Chatterly in graphite wash. Just keeping the macabre alive (undead?) throughout the year.

B. Maroney - watercolor

watercolor, 2018

available, 8"x10"

prints also available

      I finally got Boney to sit for a portrait. In spite of its name, watercolor lends itself pretty well to monochrome paintings.

      Happy Halloween!

Bleeding Skull - watercolor

watercolor, 2018

available, 8"x10"

prints and gifts also available

      Horror never sleeps! It isn't just for October. This is a moody little piece I painted all in neutral tint.

Skin E. Bones in Blue - gouache

gouache, 2017

available, 8"x10"

prints and gifts also available

      Just a quick monochrome portrait of Skin E. on fiber cover stock.

Want A Balloon? - gouache

gouache, 2017

available, 8"x10"

prints and gifts also available

      Happy Halloween!

The Dreamer - charcoal

charcoal, 2017

available, 8"x11"

      Now we're talking. One Saturday in February 1986 I took a beautiful and sassy young redhead on a first date to see A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. We're still together, though she's less a fan of horror movies than she was back then. I'm pretty happy with this one (and her!). Freddy's melted skin was pretty tough, but I think it worked out.

      Happy Halloween!

The Brother - charcoal

charcoal, 2017

available, 8x11

      I call Michael Myers of Halloween fame The Brother, of course, because his sole purpose was to terrorize and kill his baby sister, the only family he missed in his original killing spree. But this actually is The Brother #2 as I've already featured Barbra's short-lived brother, Johnny, from Night Of The Living Dead. This one was difficult and didn't quite work out as well as most of my other horror portraits. You would think the lack of features in the mask would make it easy to draw. But that's the problem. The lack of features means there's very little to give the "face" form and it was very hard to render the subtleties in the warped mask.

Laughing Skull - gouache

gouache, 2017

available, 11"x15"

prints and gifts also available

      Here's my first portrait of Mr. Skin E. Bones, a.k.a. the Laughing Skull.

The Ancestor - charcoal

charcoal, 2017

available, 8"x11"

prints and gifts also available

      Good old Barnabas Collins of Dark Shadows -- the good one played by Jonathan Frid for the television show of the late '60s/early '70s, not Johnny Depp's horrible attempt.

The Prom Queen - charcoal

charcoal, 2017

available, 8"x11"

prints and gifts also available

      We're continuing our month of horror with everyone's favorite reluctant prom queen from another Steven King movie about an outcast teenager. Surprise. Surprise.

The Car - charcoal

charcoal, 2017

available, 8"x11"

prints and gifts also available

      It's that time of year again. Though I'm not a big Steven King fan, per se, I did like a couple of his movies. Christine, of course, is just another story of a high school outsider finding or being given some form of empowerment. In this case, our protagonist finds a presumably possessed car that killed two people even before it rolled out of the factory. The best part of Christine, frankly, is that it can repair and restore itself back to showroom new. What gearhead wouldn't want a car like that?

The Grim Mower - gouache

gouache, 2017

available, 7.5"x11"

prints and gifts also available

      Just a fun little piece to get back into gouache. I haven't done anything in gouache in a while. More to come.

49 Cadillac Hearse - marker

ink, 2017

available, 9"x12"

prints and gifts also available

      I found some Winsor & Newton Pigment Markers on clearance locally so I thought I'd give them a try. I just bought a couple grays as I've been wanting to experiment more with grayscale and with markers. This is a first attempt. Not bad if I say so myself. The two pens I chose were a bit darker than I expected. I was looking for four levels -- two grays, black and paper white. Not really what I got. Even so, they work nicely in a horror theme, obviously. I'll be playing with these some more for both finished pieces and preliminary grayscale sketches for watercolors.

The Camper - charcoal

charcoal, 2016

available, 8"x11"

prints and gifts also available

      The most famous attendee of everyone's favorite summer camp. Something special but off-beat for St. Valentine's Day. Remember what happens to lovers in horror movies.

The Doll - charcoal

charcoal, 2016

available, 8"x10"

prints and gifts also available

     My daughter recently reminded me it's been a while since I added to my horror character series and I was way behind. So, here's everyone's favorite possessed doll. Happy Halloween!

Edgar - ink

ink, 2016

nfs, 8"x11"

prints and gifts available

      Just a quick ink sketch I did of great American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. And, yes, if you haven't noticed before, his face - eyes especially - is definitely NOT symmetrical. None are; his is just really obvious.

Linlithgow Palace - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 9"x12"

prints also available

      Yet another reference from Scotland. The reference photo for this one wasn't quite so dark and foreboding. But, it's a ruin of a Scottish castle. It's just screaming for a gothic horror treatment. It's just a quick sketch anyway.