MONSTERS OF ROCK Open Drawing



So it's definitely happening! I will be putting on my homemade monster masks to model at MassArt's upcoming open drawing sessions October 5th, 19th, and November 9th in the Tower building outside room 914, noon-2pm. Students will have an actual monster model playing old Black Sabbath, Slayer, Metallica, Misfits, Iron Maiden, S.O.D. and more, as well as tons of surf stuff from Man...Or Astroman? and some horror movie themes. I think I'm going to bring trick-or-treat buckts filled with candy, too. Hopefully some photography and video students will show up to document this.

New Stuff
So this move back to Massachusetts has really slowed me down. Hopefully soon I'll be back up to speed. I'm in the middle of 4 commissions, and here's some other new stuff I finished:




"Creepshow Freakshow" flyer image for the Coney Island zombie Pirate Halloween show, commissioned by famous NY burlesque star Dottie Lux





A squillion years ago Dottie also gave me her leather jacket to paint on---she just got the finished product last weekend when she performed at J. Cannibal's Feast of Flesh show. (Also last weekend, Miss Firecracker and I scored bigtime at Boston Costume's new Halloween outlet store on Route 9. One of our finds was a huge black furry batsuit with matching mask. I'm going to cut the kind of lame face off and add a customized bat face and really big ears so the Firecracker can have her own bat-hat like the one I painted for Dottie.





"Comedy a Go-Go" poster for P. H. Fred, who's trying to rebuild the New Orleans club scene "one laugh, one song, one show at a time." Our own little Hurricane Katrina refugee Mr. Giles is dancing on the ball.





Amazing illustrator and Wasabassco Burlesque producer Bill Morton invited me to be a guest artist for the troupe's "Evil Night" Halloween poster. He suggested devil girls, and I started thinking, "A night so evil, even the angels turn bad." So here they are being annoying to a devil girl. It's nice to just paint the poster image and have other people do all the text for a change.