Artist's Obsession: Monsters, Monsters, Monsters - WTOP- Topic: Halloween News
The picture (a punked-out Frankenstein’s monster with spiked hair) was not intended as album art; it was just a gift and an excuse to meet The Cramps, a psychobilly band that formed in the ’70s. For years, Blickenstaff primarily did pen-and-ink or colored pencil drawings, but a few years ago, he switched to acrylic paints, because he could work faster that way, and because drawing is “more like a chore,” he said. Painting is swift and easy, and he seldom draws a design on his canvas before beginning a piece; he just lets the brush, and his imagination, go. Given his obsession with the dark and eerie, it should come as no surprise that the artist also plays a theremin, the chilling instrument sometimes heard in old horror movies. More Halloween News