Friday 2 November 2012

I never drink...wine...

Ah, Hammer films!  Memories of going to the pictures in the 70's with the latest boyfriend, going to see such gems as The Abominable Doctor Phibes or The Devil Rides Out - burying your face in his jacket at the scary bits!  (On reflection, this may be the reason our boyfriends were so keen to take us to see the films in the first place).  The king of Hammer has to be Christopher Lee's Dracula, so that was what I wanted to feature in my challenge piece for Haunted Design House

 
So here he is, ol' red-eyes himself, stamped and masked while I built up the background with red inks - Adirondack Red Pepper, Distress Fired Brick and Barn Door.   I added some hits of red to eyes and fangs with a cut and dry nib.  And I couldn't resist adding in the words (printed onto Safmat) - it's my idea of funny.  You'll just have to get used to it, I'm afraid!

 
Update - I made the Gruesome Twosome!  Whoo-hoo!

4 comments:

Creepy Glowbugg said...

Ha! I LOVE IT!!! Perfect for our Hammer challenge this week! LOVE that sentiment, too! Wish I had thought of it! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at HDH.

Andrea C said...

Haha this is brilliant. Very very cool. Thanks for playing along with haunted design house this week x

mark gould said...

lol, love this, great colours for the back ground and the main image looks brilliant.
thanks for joining us at haunted design house

DonnaMundinger said...

Fabulous! and the sentiment cracks me up! Thanks for joining us at HDH. xxD