Off with her head!

When I was in Paris a couple of years ago, my family and myself visited La Conciegerie (where Marie Antoinette was held before being executed). That being said, I was of course interested in all the grim details the rest of our trip there. Anyway, last week I decided to try my hand at a painting of Marie Antoinette-what fun! The clothing of the time was amazing-the colors, the furniture, just about everything was so decadent.

I've been really trying to make more involved paintings as of late (as opposed to my 2 paintings a day craziness). I recently rediscovered an absolute LOVE for cel-vinyl while making these paintings. Not only do the colors lay solid-they actually work quite well with gouache. It's much easier to make larger paintings on nice, big, pieces of Arches paper with this stuff and it really works wonders for background painting as well.

In other news, a new website is going to be up soon and I can't wait! I've been getting lots of e-mails inquiring about art for sale and commissions...well good news! Upon cleaning out our studio and art files, we came across a bunch of both framed and unframed artwork that will be up for sale. I'll also have a series of strange little paintings up for grabs. I'll be sure to post when we have things up and running!

The boys around here call it "The Black Lagoon"

I'm really loving the free time I've had the past couple of days in between jobs. I could really sit and paint monsters all day and night! There's a certain freedom in sketch-booking too, it becomes so very addicting.

“It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.” -Vincent Price

So with some free time tonight, I decided to paint some monster lady thumbnails in my sketchbook. So much fun to play with the color on these. I think all the bottled up crazies from drawing children's books all day makes you just want to draw monsters constantly. I'd love to paint a horror comic one of these days!

Touch Of Evil sketch session

Here's a few doodles made this evening while watching Touch of Evil. Quite possibly one of the most visually appealing movies ever made ( and really fun to draw from). I'm thinking I might put an hour or so aside a night to draw from some of the classics. It's good for stretching the brain muscles and keeps me away from watching bad T.V.