Death Flare

I have been getting into doing more Adobe Illustrator work lately- I could have gone way overboard cleaning up a lot of stuff on this one, but I wanted to finish him and move on to some other projects I have kicking around in my head. Don't ask what my obsession is with green skulls, apparently I just think they look cool. Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator CS3, using my Wacom Graphire tablet. Prints of this will be available in my store soon, and I will also have them at my table at Monsterpalooza in May.

Blister

During the excitement of the Halloween season last year, I somehow managed to skip posting some of my recent artwork. This is was a return to a traditonal art style I hadn't worked with for many years- acrylic on canvas. Basically just a large scale version of a character I painted in one of my Bottle Cap Monsters which I called "Broccoli Head". My daughter Brandi got such a kick out of the character that I gave her the Bottle Cap Monster and then decided it would be fun to do a larger version of that character. I really have no idea what is going on here, just a lovely green skeleton zombie that is blistering over I suppose. The original painting will be availble for purchase at the Monsterpalooza show in Burbank, CA - May 29th-31st 2009.

Christel Death is back to haunt me!

Another gruelling 7 hours of makeup work later, and Christel Death returned to haunt me once again. I snapped a few photos during the photo shoot- I can't wait for the pro photos to be ready, they looked so incredible! We will be offering limited edition signed prints soon... stay tuned- I can't wait to post them!

Heavy Metal Art

After 25 years of airbrushing, I FINALLY got around to painting on metal! I have spent the last few weeks reading and learning about automotive painting. I rounded up an old scrap fender, sanded off the clear coat, and finally got the airbrush fired up and painted this happy skull. This was about an hours work- just getting used to the feel of the new airbrush (my second Iwata- picked up an Eclipse HP-CS this time, and I love it!) and the feel of painting with Uretane paints! Tha hardest thing to get used to was wearing a respirator- I seriously felt like Darth Vader for the first 20 minutes or so. I plan to cover the entire fender with various odd illustrations- I do have some green paint as well, so I will try some color soon too. I seriously loved working on metal and can't wait to do bunch more of this crazy stuff soon!!