The News Letter guaranteed to stimulate the ghoulish side of your nature.
January 2010 Issue # 6
the mad monster maker
Brain Waves
| What kind of articles will we have next month? Where will my stories go? Will the diorama be begun? Will I have completed more of the Geometric busts? You'll just have to wait and see. I promise I won't let you down. If you have any idea's or news that you feel should or could be included in my News Letter, just email me today or before the 1st of next month. If you think your work should be spot lighted in our Artists Corner you should email me too. Hope to see you then. When it happens. If I can be there, I will. |
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New paint ups of old models from Geometric Design
| In publication since July of 2009 |
A portfolio cover
A new book. "I Me Sinner."
| The Artists Corner |
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| Another scratch built diorama. Paleman after the little girl. |
Say hello to Janet Gamble. She's
a resident artist here in New York City.
It's a distinct pleasure to be focusing our
News Letters first entry into what I hope to
become a steady input sharing others
work that has merit in my mind. I feel it
important, more than just making a note in
conversation and in passing, that their
work in total, is worthy of sharing with all
that will open their eyes and hearts to the
spirit of another's dream, come true thru
the ability they've been blessed with.
As you can see, Janet has a flair for
cartooning and the sentiment that dogs
have wonderful characters to be worked
with. Her website is called, "Get a Dog's
Life." and can be viewed by going to
www.getadogslife.com
Janet's also been an associate at the Home Depot, just like me, for many
years now and has one of the most wonderful, kind and sincere personalities on
the planet. She's been doing her cartooning and creating comic strips since the
1980's, with a wit and delightful nature in her themes. So don't delay, go to it.
a resident artist here in New York City.
It's a distinct pleasure to be focusing our
News Letters first entry into what I hope to
become a steady input sharing others
work that has merit in my mind. I feel it
important, more than just making a note in
conversation and in passing, that their
work in total, is worthy of sharing with all
that will open their eyes and hearts to the
spirit of another's dream, come true thru
the ability they've been blessed with.
As you can see, Janet has a flair for
cartooning and the sentiment that dogs
have wonderful characters to be worked
with. Her website is called, "Get a Dog's
Life." and can be viewed by going to
www.getadogslife.com
Janet's also been an associate at the Home Depot, just like me, for many
years now and has one of the most wonderful, kind and sincere personalities on
the planet. She's been doing her cartooning and creating comic strips since the
1980's, with a wit and delightful nature in her themes. So don't delay, go to it.
| Let us welcome a new addition to our News Letter. The Artists Corner. |
| Click on image to enlarge. |
Ever since I decided to take up the opportunity to have a selling table, at the
National Haunters Convention comes Spring, I realized that just having my work
online, on my website, wouldn't be beneficial to what's I'm striving to show. That
it now looked like old fashion hand held portfolio for people to browse and thumb
through, enjoy and even think of having for their own collection of art on their
shelf, would certainly be a better way to go. And here I went again. Another
direction for my mind to enter, design around, and hopefully gain new love. For
that's what we artist strive for, isn't it. I look at it like this, if I'm going to devote
this much time to a project, I better really see the worth of it in the real world.
Change ... It was inevitable. I gathered up images of the models, already
completed, and noted on my website and began to formulate a plan to create a
page for each to print. I wanted to put my best foot forward, so including
anything that was done over a year old, wouldn't best represent what I'm striving
to show as my art as of late. So ... For the benefit of showing off what I can do
and hopefully getting another audience to view and hopefully desire to have as
their own, in their own collections. That's a good thing to strive for, no doubt.
National Haunters Convention comes Spring, I realized that just having my work
online, on my website, wouldn't be beneficial to what's I'm striving to show. That
it now looked like old fashion hand held portfolio for people to browse and thumb
through, enjoy and even think of having for their own collection of art on their
shelf, would certainly be a better way to go. And here I went again. Another
direction for my mind to enter, design around, and hopefully gain new love. For
that's what we artist strive for, isn't it. I look at it like this, if I'm going to devote
this much time to a project, I better really see the worth of it in the real world.
Change ... It was inevitable. I gathered up images of the models, already
completed, and noted on my website and began to formulate a plan to create a
page for each to print. I wanted to put my best foot forward, so including
anything that was done over a year old, wouldn't best represent what I'm striving
to show as my art as of late. So ... For the benefit of showing off what I can do
and hopefully getting another audience to view and hopefully desire to have as
their own, in their own collections. That's a good thing to strive for, no doubt.
I finally got the model. It's gorgeous, a perfect
cast, with minor clean up, I'll be up and run,
run, running. I've already got my mind wrapped around the things I'll do
with a scratch built project. I want to include the little girl, of course.
This diorama without her scrambling and running away, from this horrid
creature, is only a tease at best. Like I've felt about all the other
diorama's I made already, I want to pull out all the stops
on this one. No room for half way measures when you've
challenged the self to a fantastic model as this. The creator
of this sculpture, Casey Love, at 1/6 scale, dis a
magnificent job of designing this pose for the
creature. It's a great jump point for my mind. No
doubt about it. From extending the floor, to the
inclusion of the long table with all of its assorted
foods and delights. And that
fireplace and the ceiling. What
creative challenge that will be.
I think a flying fairy darting with
in fear, along with the little girl, has got to be part of my
scene. Take a peak at some of the images I've gathered
from the original flick and see how amazing all I can do can be.
This is a project I can really submerse myself into. Just watch and see.
cast, with minor clean up, I'll be up and run,
run, running. I've already got my mind wrapped around the things I'll do
with a scratch built project. I want to include the little girl, of course.
This diorama without her scrambling and running away, from this horrid
creature, is only a tease at best. Like I've felt about all the other
diorama's I made already, I want to pull out all the stops
on this one. No room for half way measures when you've
challenged the self to a fantastic model as this. The creator
of this sculpture, Casey Love, at 1/6 scale, dis a
magnificent job of designing this pose for the
creature. It's a great jump point for my mind. No
doubt about it. From extending the floor, to the
inclusion of the long table with all of its assorted
foods and delights. And that
fireplace and the ceiling. What
creative challenge that will be.
I think a flying fairy darting with
in fear, along with the little girl, has got to be part of my
scene. Take a peak at some of the images I've gathered
from the original flick and see how amazing all I can do can be.
This is a project I can really submerse myself into. Just watch and see.
If you're planning on selling your painting skills, you'd better ready yourself for keeping your interests
alive by changing the color scheme of that model you've painted before. I completed this Monster
from Hell creature a few months back and had another one ready for paint up too. So it laid on the
side till I could motivate myself to come up with something more unique than the last. No one, well at
least not me, hates creating the same thing twice, no matter how well it came out the first time. So
although the monster is similar in overall color to the first go around, I've given the creature a better
handling with the shading. Just have to finish off the base and it's ready to go. As far as Nosferatu
on our right, and all of the pictures you can see on his own page, here's the link, there I completely
went whole hog into the change from the original paint up. This bust was one of the first busts I had
ever painted some 5 years ago, But now, I have great respect for the things I've learned over the
years since then; the garish colors, the workmanship, the shadings, the overall feel has
now evolved to a state where I can look at it and say, "You've come a long way baby."
I've still many pieces on my work table to do, but for now I'm grateful I at got to complete
this baby. I really like the eyes. One of the things I'm stressing in my work. I feel, if you
can grab the audience with a "one to one look", they'll go deeper
into what you're portraying in paint. We have to convince the
watchers that you've captured some of the soul of the creature
you're working with. I didn't think I'd be spending four hours on
New Years Eve painting this model, but once I started, there was
no turning back. You know what I mean. It's the real thing.
alive by changing the color scheme of that model you've painted before. I completed this Monster
from Hell creature a few months back and had another one ready for paint up too. So it laid on the
side till I could motivate myself to come up with something more unique than the last. No one, well at
least not me, hates creating the same thing twice, no matter how well it came out the first time. So
although the monster is similar in overall color to the first go around, I've given the creature a better
handling with the shading. Just have to finish off the base and it's ready to go. As far as Nosferatu
on our right, and all of the pictures you can see on his own page, here's the link, there I completely
went whole hog into the change from the original paint up. This bust was one of the first busts I had
ever painted some 5 years ago, But now, I have great respect for the things I've learned over the
years since then; the garish colors, the workmanship, the shadings, the overall feel has
now evolved to a state where I can look at it and say, "You've come a long way baby."
I've still many pieces on my work table to do, but for now I'm grateful I at got to complete
this baby. I really like the eyes. One of the things I'm stressing in my work. I feel, if you
can grab the audience with a "one to one look", they'll go deeper
into what you're portraying in paint. We have to convince the
watchers that you've captured some of the soul of the creature
you're working with. I didn't think I'd be spending four hours on
New Years Eve painting this model, but once I started, there was
no turning back. You know what I mean. It's the real thing.
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Who better than the sinner to write about the sin. We live in times where just about anything is
admissible and even right in some minds. Most would argue, "Why call it sin? It's just a way of life."
Some make their livings, doing seductive acts of perversity. The dancers in the topless bars, the ones
who sell there bodies on the street, the professional porn star and so on and so it goes. College
students thrive on T&A flicks. A horror flick without the seductive damsel in distress would most times
never even make it to the discount racks at the video store, no less see the light of day.
I grew up in a time where pornography was still taboo, something you'd view in the privacy of a
hidden closet, after all the elders have left the house to visit the realities. I grew up in a time, where the
Wagner Theatre just a few blocks from my home showed what was then X rated movies, and today
would only be classified as a R rated soft porn. But it had its lure, as I snuck into the theatre in broad
daylight, checking left and right up and down the block hoping no stranger turned out to be a neighbor,
so I feared. You could say, I grew up with a money on my back, but I knew more, for I was a Catholic
child who was taught that my desires were not a matter of a healthy mind and spirit.
So ... As you can see I have first hand experience in knowing who my adversary is and who I
must face to deal with my issue. No exorcism, no plain discussion with a therapist can cast away my
reality. This is combat and on the Demons turf and no less. I must write this book and illustrate it
because it is for my own good that I do it. I did not choose to write this book, it chose to be written out
of pure need, and the good sense of mind and spirit that this might be the way to finally come to grips with my own decay. It's a
chance I'm willing to take for the health of my life and maybe in hope, my after life. I realize that this will be yet another WIP,
and for that I am not content, for with someone like me whose already got to many WIP in progress, it's almost a foolish, if not
mind boggling avenue to venture and even more, succeed.
The process has already begun. I've pulled this drawing from one of my short stories, entered in the "Black House -
Tales of Terror" book, oh yes, that's a WIP too. lol It's this mindset that stands before me in the clearest of lights. I challenged
myself and scribbled many chapters titles already, soon to be added as a index page for this story. With chapters titles like,
"Outstretched arms and longing for peace." and "Whispering sweet nothings in my ear." and "My bedfellow, my sin." and
"Lusting again. Another sleepless night." The titles come to easily and to use as topics for a write of a story even easier, I do
fear. The books title, low and behold, was named the second I choose to write this article this morn. I have another drawing
already begun, I planned on showing here, but it will have to wait for my next installment next month, and possibly sooner, time
will tell. This is where I am going in the New Year, like it or not, share with me or not, here I come.
I fear this might be one of those writes that will be gobbled up, mainly because it's time has come and the populous can
understand these kinds of thoughts and even welcome them. It couldn't and most likely not have been able to be written when I
needed it most to be written, when i was a child. Instead its waited patiently for its time and its time is now.
admissible and even right in some minds. Most would argue, "Why call it sin? It's just a way of life."
Some make their livings, doing seductive acts of perversity. The dancers in the topless bars, the ones
who sell there bodies on the street, the professional porn star and so on and so it goes. College
students thrive on T&A flicks. A horror flick without the seductive damsel in distress would most times
never even make it to the discount racks at the video store, no less see the light of day.
I grew up in a time where pornography was still taboo, something you'd view in the privacy of a
hidden closet, after all the elders have left the house to visit the realities. I grew up in a time, where the
Wagner Theatre just a few blocks from my home showed what was then X rated movies, and today
would only be classified as a R rated soft porn. But it had its lure, as I snuck into the theatre in broad
daylight, checking left and right up and down the block hoping no stranger turned out to be a neighbor,
so I feared. You could say, I grew up with a money on my back, but I knew more, for I was a Catholic
child who was taught that my desires were not a matter of a healthy mind and spirit.
So ... As you can see I have first hand experience in knowing who my adversary is and who I
must face to deal with my issue. No exorcism, no plain discussion with a therapist can cast away my
reality. This is combat and on the Demons turf and no less. I must write this book and illustrate it
because it is for my own good that I do it. I did not choose to write this book, it chose to be written out
of pure need, and the good sense of mind and spirit that this might be the way to finally come to grips with my own decay. It's a
chance I'm willing to take for the health of my life and maybe in hope, my after life. I realize that this will be yet another WIP,
and for that I am not content, for with someone like me whose already got to many WIP in progress, it's almost a foolish, if not
mind boggling avenue to venture and even more, succeed.
The process has already begun. I've pulled this drawing from one of my short stories, entered in the "Black House -
Tales of Terror" book, oh yes, that's a WIP too. lol It's this mindset that stands before me in the clearest of lights. I challenged
myself and scribbled many chapters titles already, soon to be added as a index page for this story. With chapters titles like,
"Outstretched arms and longing for peace." and "Whispering sweet nothings in my ear." and "My bedfellow, my sin." and
"Lusting again. Another sleepless night." The titles come to easily and to use as topics for a write of a story even easier, I do
fear. The books title, low and behold, was named the second I choose to write this article this morn. I have another drawing
already begun, I planned on showing here, but it will have to wait for my next installment next month, and possibly sooner, time
will tell. This is where I am going in the New Year, like it or not, share with me or not, here I come.
I fear this might be one of those writes that will be gobbled up, mainly because it's time has come and the populous can
understand these kinds of thoughts and even welcome them. It couldn't and most likely not have been able to be written when I
needed it most to be written, when i was a child. Instead its waited patiently for its time and its time is now.