All Hallows’ Eve Creepy Creatures Playing Card Deck. A plastic coated poker sized deck of playing cards showcasing 58 individual monster portraits and their names from illustrations by Chet Phillips. Deck includes 2 Jokers and 4 Wild Cards
“Beware the Moon” by Chet Phillips
Hero Complex Gallery and Trailers From Hell present a two night peek into the amazing career of 7-time Oscar-winning makeup and effects legend, Rick Baker. Festivities will commence on Friday, October 23rd at 7:30pm at the Aero Theatre American Cinematheque with a double-feature screening of a few of Baker’s favorite personal projects, Harry and the Hendersons and Ed Wood. There will be a Q&A session between the films with special guests Rick Baker and moderator, Dana Gould. The celebration will continue on Saturday, October 24th at 5pm at Hero Complex Gallery with an art tribute event with Rick Baker in person, along with several pieces of Rick Baker’s original artwork on display as well. Facebook Event Page
For the event I created a tribute to the classic “An American Werewolf in London,” titled “Beware the Moon.” Signed limited edition giclee prints will be available at the opening and later online.
About 3 weeks ago the front yard and house of my good friends Doug Livingston and Christine Pasienski was transformed into an amazing display of Halloween spookiness. Both are incredibly creative folks and they turned this talent towards creating a landscape of all things Halloween. Many aspects of their environment were created from scratch or cleverly altered to the proper effect. They’ve posted a wonderful collection of photos, which are works of art in themselves, into a beautiful online photo album.
Steve Wintercroft sells plans and instructions to create unique masks.
“Rumble in R’lyeh” by Chet Phillips
Guzu Gallery presents “Icons of Horror: A Haunted Portrait Show,” in cooperation with Blood Over Texas & Gore Noir Magazine. This Halloween season, Guzu dead-icates its gallery walls to the icons, heroes, and villains of the horror genre…but mostly the villains! The exhibition will feature all new, all horrifying portraits by over twenty-five artists — each carefully selected by Guzu Gallery. Original paintings, mixed media artwork, and screen prints will be available for purchase.
My contribution, titled “Rumble in R’lyeh,” imagines a special event announcement with Cthulhu at center stage.
Guzu Gallery is located at 5000 N Lamar Blvd. in Austin (next door to Austin Books and Comics) Opening reception is Oct. 31st, 7-10PM.
The fine folks over at Thrillist are helping with your last minute costume needs. You can download a pdf of my “La Muerte” character mask over at their site. Wear this Lucha Libre harbinger of death head to score your share of sweets or just to scare the cat.
Download + Print Out + Cut Out + Wear = Scare
Greg Newman knows how to capture the essence of celebrity. His Tim Burton portrait is perfect for the season.
Chris Dugas has collected a fun selection of pumpkin carvings. via Outside the Cage
Jeremy Enecio’s “Cthulu” strikes just the right amount of horror with its minimal treatment.
Get in the Halloween mood by visiting this great Dragon Con 2012 photo set by “Millermz.” Above is a great “Bioshock” Big Daddy and Little Sister.
Nice mash-up of Nightmare Before Christmas with Day of the Dead by Mike Bell.
A new series from ChetArt explores the world of “Collective Nouns,” in which animals and creatures are grouped together by an identifier. Five groups created to date with more on the way. Each is available in the online shop as an 11″ x 14″ signed print on high quality archival paper. Clicking on each image will take you directly to the shop’s listing.
Serge Birault creates a classic portrait of Morticia, the Addams family matriarch.
“I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s…..His hair was perfect.”
~ Warren Zevon- “Werewolves of London”
Happy Halloween!
Stranger Factory presents “Bewitched,” a most excellent collection of Halloween themed art. Pictured above: Andrew Bell’s “Damned Corn.”
Julian Coalheart, zombie chimp and card carrying Sinister Simian, invites you to jump into the spirit of Halloween by taking the Horror Movie quiz. (Be sure to use the pause button on this one.)
