Monster Monday: My Grandpa and Herman Munster Marker Paintings For Monster Market

Hey, gang- thanks for answering this call about my two latest Munsters monsterpieces.

I recently did a pair of Munster family portraits- Grandpa and Herman. These two are a couple of my Monster Market Exclusives for this year’s event.

I did these acrylic paint maker paintings on a couple of the wood panels I’ve been using. I picked up these round and square wood panels at the Dollar Tree for about a $1.25ea. They’re inexpensive and are very versatile, take to a variety of mediums and techniques, and are beginner/novice friendly. The acrylic paint pens are opaque and can cover mistakes pretty easy.

They’ve had different sized and shaped panels at both locations near me, but you have to shop and keep an eye out because their inventory does change each month and at each location I’ve been to here and around the Memphis area. I recently picked up some bat, pumpkin, and ghost shapes to paint on.

I started off on these with scaling them on my laptop, and then tracing their faces onto some tracing paper.

I transferred the faces onto the boards by creating some “carbon paper” by scribbling/rubbing pencil lead onto the back of the tracing paper, taped the paper into place, and then traced over the line art. Once I removed the paper, I started filling in the background with a salmon colored marker. For markers I use acrylic Posca, Ivsun, Artistro, and Sharpie Creatives.

I then started filling in the red lapels and medallion sash with dark and light red.

I then started filling in the black of the tuxedo jacket.

Next up was to fill in the face color with some teal and light blues. They colored the Munster family in bright colors to make them work great in black and white, and I’ve noticed that in some of the color photos the family’s faces are painted garishly, but their hands aren’t always covered in bright make-up.

Next I colored in some of the face and clothing shadow areas with a few shades of greys.

I colored in the shirt and tie with white. and then used a mix of white and pink markers on the lapel highlights. I also used a few different shades of red to stipple the almon background.

I filled in the hair and eyebrows with a dark grey, and did skin highlights with a mix of light blues and white markers. I’ve got some white markers that are more opaque and some that are more trasparent.

I used a mix of yellows, browns, and grey for the sideburns.

I used a couple different colors of gold/bronze metallic markers for the medallion, and then used a black Pigma Micron pen to do the black line art. I tried to keep the linework simple.

I finished up with white highlights using a white Gelly Roll gel pen, painted the sides with a black oil basked paint marker, and then sprayed the surface with a few light coats of Krylon Workable Fixative.

Both of these Munsters marker monsterpieces will be available for purchase at this year’s Memphis Monster Market along with several other paintings, prints, zines, stickers, and more or mine.

It’s a 10 day long Halloween themed pop-up shop at The Medicine Factory in downtown Memphis and is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. Monster Market is free and open to the public and features a variety of Halloween, horror, cryptids, aliens, sci-fi, and other fun and creepy items- many created by local monster makers like myself.

I dropped off all of my Monster Market art yesterday, and all of the pieces that I sold in my “Featured Creatures” have been delivered to their new owners. My friend Dr. Kevin Thorn who’s the owner of the Bricks & Minifigs store here in Hernando will be displaying my Grandpa Munster airbrushed canvas along with the Herman painting I did several years back. My Bride painting is hanging out with a few of my other monsterpieces at my friends Eric and Sandra Crimmins’ home. They own several of my artwork pieces.

I sold my “Groovie Goolies” panel at the latest The Mid-South Collectible Toy Show out in Bartlett, TN last month.

Whatever didn’t sell at the con or recent art show will be for sale at Monster Market, along with these new Munster portraits and a few other new pieces I’ll be featuring in upcoming art blog posts here.

And don’t forget that I’ll be back set up at this year’s Memphis Monster Con on November 21st & 22nd at the Agricenter International out east in Shelby Farms- 7777 Walnut Grove Rd.

Oh, I’ve had a couple of my Hauntline calls played on recent episodes of “The Halloween Podcast“. You can listen to the show on Spotify, Apple, or most podcasting platforms to get you in the mood for spooky season.