The Mutated Skeleton Cave

Nightmare Nazi Demons, Print For Sale

2009-12-10T00:52:00.000-08:00

Here is my depiction of the nightmare Nazi demons from An American Werewolf In London, originally published (in black and white) in Electric Ant #2.

I am selling signed and numbered high quality art prints of this in a limited edition of 666. An unspecified number of prints will be held back for a future solo show that I am planning.

The print is made using archival inks on strong glossy photo paper measuring 24 x 18 inches. The artwork runs to the edge with no border space.

Price is 150 US Dollars which includes shipping and handling. Shipping is extra outside of the USA.

* Every print sold will include something extra, could be a drawing, original artwork of previously published monsters, etc.

Mist Prints For Sale!

2009-12-07T22:07:00.001-08:00

(full composition)

(detail shot)

I am now selling a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered high quality art prints of this artwork. Paper type is a glossy expensive photo paper with archival inks, giving the image a depth of space impossible to portray online. The size is 36 x 24 inches with no border space.

Price is 250 US dollars which includes shipping and handling within the United States. If you're location is elsewhere, shipping will be extra.

Contact me at evilenergy @ yahoo.com if interested. Thanks!

All profits from this edition are being spent on upgrading my computer and camera equipment. Buy some amazing art and help an artist buy the tools he needs to make the best art possible!

The Mist is one of my favorite stories, I had the honor of illustrating my favorite scene from it in the recently published "Knowing Darkness, Artists Inspired By Stephen King" published by Centipede Press. Multiple detail shots of the artwork were used for the front and back end pages of the book as well as being featured in a double page spread within.

* I will be holding back an unspecified number of prints for a solo show I'm doing in the next two years.

Painting Sketches For Monsters

2009-11-29T01:33:00.000-08:00

Sketches for a series of paintings largely inspired by vintage horror comic monsters.

Hell Hound Cometh!

2009-11-13T07:16:00.001-08:00

Here is an in progress portrait of a demon.

YagaZap!

2009-11-02T17:25:00.000-08:00

Halloween Inspired Paintings

2009-10-23T06:08:00.000-07:00

These will be in the upcomingMonster Show 4 at Domy Books in Texas this Halloween.

Vastarien

2009-09-25T01:36:00.000-07:00

How many times I gotta tell you freaks? Aint nobody sleeps with uncle creepy peeps!

2009-09-02T05:53:00.000-07:00

Nightmare Nazi Demons (fragment)

2009-08-27T04:41:00.000-07:00

Say hello to a few of the nightmare nazi demons from An American Werewolf In London.

WitchFinder General

2009-08-16T03:26:00.001-07:00

Hands Of A Witch

2009-08-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

Two grotesque hands, old and wrinkled, wrap around a neck, squeezing tighter and tighter. Each finger stretches unnaturally apart and around, again and again, coiling down the body. Long sharp black fingernails scratch along the skin. The ribcage collapses, the air escapes in a deep horrified wheeze. The eyes drip blood, then spray like running faucets. Every organ bursts, every bone breaks, every muscle rips, the body closes in on itself like a burst balloon. The impossibly long fingers looping in an ever tightening pattern. A strange pulsing occurs, each finger tip like the mouth of a leech, the blood, the bone, the liver and kidneys, stomach and intestines, sucked through the labyrinth passages up and around, towards the ever enlarging hands, floating in the air as they make a disgusting wet sloshing sound, seeming ready to burst.

The fingers release their victim, slowly then quickly winding back into the semblance and size of normal fingers, if only bulging with some sick meal still oozing into the still growing hands. The shriveled body drops lifeless to the floor, an expression remains on the flattened face of intense unimaginable pain. The two hands float strangely like something from a cartoon, drifting through the open window and into the night.

Somewhere in the forest a dead witch sleeps, her body mutilated and torn apart, piece by piece. Lost are the legs, gone are the arms, eaten by wolves or taken as trophies. But the hands remained, one last curse on man, the nightmare duties given to them through the blood of babies and the hearts of men. Flying like bizarre bats through the trees, across vast fields of corn, into small villages where, drop by drop, bone by bone, the witch's hands return the life taken from her.

News Regarding Books Involving Stephen King And Thomas Ligotti

2009-07-27T08:36:00.000-07:00

I learned a few weeks ago that my illustration of the Mist story by Stephen King will have detail shots used as the end pages as well as be featured as a two page spread somewhere in the upcoming gigantic artbook titled "Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired By Stephen King" with none other than the director of the recent Mist film, Frank Darabont, writing the introduction. The book will be expensive but worth every dollar given the amazing printing quality and vastness of visual content in the book being published by Centipede Press. You can preorder the book here ranging from several hundred dollars for the standard version to somewhere over one thousand for the bells and whistles version. If you have the previously released H.P Lovecraft artbook from Centipede Press that I had artwork in, this book will be of the same size, but with more pages, and make a nice companion to that book.

I'm also incredibly honored to announce that I will be doing the cover to the upcoming reprint of Thomas Ligotti's "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" with the blessing of Thomas Ligotti himself. The book will be published by Subterranean Press next year. An article regarding the reprint can be viewed here.

Post Apocalypse Abomination!

2009-07-27T08:33:00.000-07:00

A brief experiment in photoshop done while I should have been working on a million other projects.

In The Shape Of Man

2009-07-12T18:32:00.001-07:00

Had a weird idea for a story the other night. A child is found dead in a bathtub covered in strange suction marks that look like they came from the mouth of a lamprey eel. After the child is buried, the plumbing back home starts acting weird, toilets overflowing, weird rattling pipes in the walls. Then late at night the mother hears the sound of heavy breathing coming from the dead child's bedroom. She opens the door and finds the dark outline of a small child on the bed. After turning on the lights she sees what looks like dozens of black eels slithering in the form of her dead child. She screams and they break apart into the shadows, making a wet slippery noise into the dark. The husband comes into the room thinking his wife is crazy.

Maybe a plague of unknown animals, digging into graves and feeding on bodies. They climb out of the ground to recreate the dead. The vocal cords emulated through the throats of monsters, a high screech that blends back down into lower decibels to sound like a long dead grandfather. A twisting undulating mass of the creatures stretching into an arm, the end a giant ball uncoiling like the head of a medusa.

I picture human shaped things covered in sheets walking strangely, some losing sense of the anatomy of humans and contorting, stretching, pulling apart into nightmarish abstractions of what resembles a person. The sheets wrapped tightly like skin around them, intended to hide what is underneath, writhing and pulsing in and out as the eels coil through each other in the shape of man.

It ends with the extinction of the human race, an unimaginable number of the creatures combined into billions of human designs, some far beyond recognition. An insane parade of creatures imitating people, all traveling towards one destination. A pilgrimage to someplace in Africa, perhaps the Middle East. The most ancient of human remains, recreated and calling to the others. A siren sound that shatters through the sky, the weather deforms around the destination. Storms grow in intensity around a vast towering structure. All the creatures build over one another, higher and higher into one gigantic shape. The human designs break apart into almost spider or crab like anatomies, the size of trucks, long limbs stretching over one another, climbing higher and higher. Lightning flashes on the miles high collage of twisting pulsating eel like creatures. Eventually it all stops moving, all of the grotesque creatures become solid as stone. The storms disappear, leaving a Godlike structure reaching miles into the sky. But somewhere inside something is moving, scratching, banging, trying to make its way out.

The Last Known Picture Of Joseph Merrick

2009-07-03T20:26:00.000-07:00

Here is my contribution to the David Lynch art show going on in Georgia at the Alcove Gallery next week. Pabst Blue Ribbon is one of the sponsors, which should be amusing to anyone who has seen Blue Velvet. The following quote was taken from the event page at The Alcove Gallery website.

""BIG TUNA" / FRIDAY JULY 10 | 7-12 PM

ALCOVE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY CELEBRATES 6 YEARS!

A tribute to the genius of DAVID LYNCH. Featuring new work from nearly 30 nationally reknown & emerging artists under the influence of this artist's work:

Chet Zar, Amy Botello, Dan May, Leslie Ditto, Danni Shinya Luo, Aaron Nather, Silvia Ortiz, Aunia Kahn, Aeron Alfrey, Brian Colin, Bryan Cunningham, Patrick “Star 27” Deignan, Dave MacDowell, Ashley Surber, Apricot Mantle, Mark Henderson, Cory Benhatzel, Joe Peery, Justin Kauffmann, James Burns, Macsorro, Matt Sesow, Kelly McKernan, Shaun Thurston, Brent Houzenga, and H.C. Warner ...to name a few.

Actors and actresses carrying out their purposes... ...and a Candy Colored Clown.

Mysterious Musical Melodies provided by DUET FOR THEREMIN & LAP STEEL

We will also have a special bit of goodness from PALLOOKAVILLE!!"

Nightmare Face

2009-06-22T18:30:00.000-07:00

Here's an in progress fragment from the previously mentioned American Werewolf In London artwork I'm doing. Still needs a lot of polishing but it's a good start.

Artists Inspired By David Lynch

2009-06-21T17:54:00.000-07:00

I'll have an artwork in the upcoming exhibit of artists inspired by David Lynch at The Alcove Contemporary Arts Gallery in Decatur Georgia, opening July 10th. More details on the show here.

I'm still deciding but I'm considering something from Elephant Man or Industrial Symphony #1.

American Werewolf In London, Nightmare Nazi Demons

2009-06-12T04:38:00.000-07:00

The above are screenshots from "An American Werewolf In London" one of my favorite horror films. I'll be adapting this scene into an artwork for an illustration feature titled "These Bloody Moments" in the upcoming second issue of Electric Ant. You can see what some of the other artists involved will be adapting in this brief article at the Electric Ant blog.

The bullet flare in the center will be removed. I originally had a more detailed scene in mind with decapitated heads, burning walls, butchered children and smashed tvs still playing the Muppet show. But I kept coming back to this door frame scene. I love how John Landis cropped these four nightmarish characters into that tight shot, still managing to show all four of their halloween mask heads.

Death Tarot

2009-06-11T06:25:00.000-07:00

Here's a t-shirt design I recently made for Unholy, inspired by the death tarot. I think this is going to be made into a promotional poster for the band as well.

Walking At Night/ Dreaming Of Monsters Underground

2009-05-28T06:10:00.000-07:00

I was walking the other night, on the edge of town. I was crossing a bridge when I looked down and saw a large gaping hole in the dirt below. It was probably the size of a car and the bottom was hidden by darkness, so maybe it went down for dozens of feet, I don't know. But it made me wonder what could have made that hole. I imagined a large alligator like creature with dozens of reptilian arms and sharp earth digging claws. A long sharp snout with a twisted mouth that spirals around to the tip, a long crooked jaw full of small sharp glistening teeth that jut in every direction. The skin solid as a rock and scaled in some overlapping pattern, small sharp plates peeling backwards. The head would work like a giant drill, letting it carve through the ground. The eyes, perhaps dozens, scattered around the long cone like snout. The tail would likely move whip like, with some tattered mass of dark hair or dozens of snake like fingers, letting it brush the earth aside from its passages into the world below.

Preview Of The Mist

2009-05-01T15:33:00.000-07:00

Here's a small fragment from a very large artwork I recently made inspired by Stephen King's story "The Mist" appearing in the upcoming art book "Knowing Darkness, Artists Inspired By Stephen King" to be published by Centipede Press this fall.

For The Unholy

2009-03-26T23:16:00.000-07:00

Here's a few recent digital works made for the band, Unholy.

Sharing The Spoils Of War

2009-03-20T20:56:00.000-07:00

Creature Designs

2009-03-10T03:10:00.000-07:00

Floating City Above Rotten Landscape

2009-02-28T18:20:00.001-08:00

Here's one of a selection of artworks made for the band "Unholy" for their upcoming album "New Life Behind Closed Eyes" on Prosthetic Records.
The album won't be out for a few months yet but details will appear on the band's page at the label here and their Myspace page.

The concept of the image was given to me by band member Jonathan Dennison and I just went crazy with it until I ended up with the image seen above.

I fell in love with the power of the stark contrasts possible in black and white imagery but color is something I'm really starting to find interesting. I began fine tuning a unique process of colorization that while very time consuming, allows me to approach the color effects in a painterly fashion. I'm really happy with the glowing toxic warm colors of the tumor like worm things on the ground.