Phantom of the Paradise

14 X 11 pencil, ink & acrylics on bristol.
Always loved this movie written and directed by Brian DePalma with music by Paul Williams!

FOR SALE!
*Feel free to contact me if you are interested in buying this piece or would like a commission piece!

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Dr. Strange & The Phantom

11 X 14 ink & watercolor on bristol.
Both of these were done for my brother's as Christmas presents - based in the work of Steve Ditko and Lee Falk.

NOT FOR SALE!

Marilyn as Harley Quinn

Marilyn Monroe as Harley Quinn
Pencil, ink & watercolor 11 X 14 on bristol.

COMMISSION SOLD!

Red Sonja

Megan Fox as Red Sonja.
This was fun, I got to search the interweb for 2 hours looking for reference pics of Megan Fox.

Pencil, in & watercolor 11 X 14 on bristol.

COMMISSION SOLD!

Universal MONSTERS!

A set of four Universal Monster commissions.
Pencil & ink - 11 X 14 on bristol paper.

I wanted to go dark with these pieces and set them all in a frame, with some positive & negative space, having at least some element of the piece break the boarder frame!

SOLD!

BATMAN ZAP!

Batman ZAP!- 11 X 14 ink
#13 in the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES

SOLD!
*I'm available to do commission pieces - Feel free to send me a message, and tell me what character you would like*

Enjoy,
CM

BOBA FETT

Boba Fett - 11 X 14 ink wash & watercolor
#12 in the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES

SOLD!
*I'm available to do commission pieces - Feel free to send me a message, and tell me what character you would like*

Enjoy,
CM

THE ROUGES GALLERY

Four more in the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES.

Pencil and ink! 11 X 15 on bristol. - SOLD!

I'm always available for commission work - contact me if you are interested!

DEXTER

Another piece in the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES.
11 X 14 pencil, ink wash, watercolor and acrylics.

I dug out some really old liquid watercolor paints that I had from high school. I found the perfect read, it was half dried up and all clumpy, when I added a bit of water to the bottle I got some really cool chunks - it looked like real blood!

ENJOY
CM

GO PILOTS!

A little piece I did for my 30th High School reunion. This guy ended up all over the place even on chocolate candy suckers!

ASH vs THE HAT BOX GHOST

Gearing up for Halloween!
Two more for the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES...

First up ASH from Army of Darkness as played by Bruce Campbell - nobody plays knuckle-head hero better than Campbell. This one was tough, as I started this one, my hand tremors kicked in - making it a challenge to draw and paint and there was text too boot... and I hate text in my pieces. In the end I think it came out pretty GROOVY.

11 X 14 pencil, ink & watercolor on bristol.

Next, the Hat Box Ghost from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. This guy was originally in the attic portion of the ride, but was removed in the early weeks of the ride opening for being too scary for the little ones. He later made re-purposed appearances as other characters in the ride.

11 X 14 ink & watercolor on bristol.

ASH is FOR SALE - contact me if you are interested!

Enjoy,

CM

DOCTOR WHO

Here is another one for the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES - David Tennant as the immortal Doctor!

11 X 14, pencil, watercolor, prismacolors on bristol. - I was going to paint in his face with some flesh tones, but he just looked a little more spooky and mysterious all white...

Enjoy,
CM

FOR SALE - Please contact me if you are interested in buying this (or any other) piece.

Adam West is the coolest BATMAN

In my never ending quest to paint Adam West as Batman as often as possible, comes my latest painting! I think I may call this series the SPLATTER PORTRAIT SERIES, which includes the RDJ Sherlock Holmes piece (below).

Enjoy,
CM

This bad boy as well as a few other pieces are FOR SALE, dirt cheap mind you HERE

Sherlock Holmes

Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes - I just loved the new movie.
I was playing with water colors and india ink washes over pencil.

Enjoy,
CM

FOR SALE

Indiana Jones and Machete

I've been experimenting a bit with different combinations of mediums and techniques.

INDIANA JONES featuring Harrison Ford as he appeared in 'Temple of Doom' - this is a homage to my favorite shot in the film... Done on watercolor paper 9 X 12 using pen & ink pens of various gray tones. I painted in the background and added some spatter, but I didn't like the spatter and I tried to cover it up - this resulted in the watercolor smearing and just screwed up the edges... but I was able to get it cleaned up and it came out much better! But learned a lesson in watercolors on this one - you can't paint a water based white over the watercolors!

MACHETE! Danny Trejo as Machete from the upcoming film - his face is so cool, I couldn't resist drawing him. Again I wanted to try something a little different, but more in my old pen & ink sketchy style. 11 X 14 on bristol paper with watercolors. Came out pretty good.

Indiana Jones is FOR SALE - please contact me if you are interested.

Enjoy,
CM

Hot Rod Frankenstein!

Here is another in a string of CM "Frankenstein" pieces - each one is a little different, done in a different style that the previous one!

With a little inspiration from John Travolta in GREASE to the leather jacketed hot rod dudes of the 50's!

Acrylics on canvas 16 X 20 - total painting time was about 12+ hours over 2 days!

THIS PIECE IS FOR SALE
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in purchasing it!

Also, visit my new Etsy store HERE

Enjoy,
CM

BATMAN & FRANKY!

Here are a couple of new paintings just completed! Both are acrylic on canvas.

The first one is BATMAN as played by Adam West, the portrait is based off the infamous 1966 LIFE magazine cover. Say what you will about Adam West's portrayal, he is still my number one Batman, and I can't stop painting him!

The second is another in a series of monster caricature portraits. I'm really digging painting Frankenstein, I'm not sure what it is about him, he's just such a cool subject. Again based on the Karloff version!

Enjoy,
CM

BATMAN!

I'm on this Batman TV series kick lately... Was siting here in the office nursing a migraine while the kids did their homework and decided to slap a little paint around.

8 x 10 acrylics on canvas board!

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JOKER!

Here is my spin on all the rad hot-rod weirdos of the 60's - with a little bit of inspiration from Ed "Rat Fink" Roth.

This was a tough'y, I've never painted any sort of hot-rod art before, but wanted to do something that I thought was interesting, putting the JOKER in the famous Batmobile with all the trimmings - flaming tires, big gearshift knobs and bulging eyes... Yeah that's a dead Robin doll! *sharp bat-fans will get the meaning.

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FRANKEN'Clown

I have neglected the blog of late... So I thought it fitting that I update with a piece I finished last night. This piece has been sitting penciled on the canvas for over a month, and I figured it about time to put it to paint - and to boot I wanted to do it in one day! After 13 straight hours of painting I think the end result came out pretty cool!

I Just had this image rattling around in my brain of Frankenstein as the clown Pagliacci. I had originally envisioned Franky with full-on clown make up, but it looked so much more menacing and sad without it!

Enjoy,
CM