Bust from the Black Lagoon

This casting of Tony McVey's CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON bust has been sitting, unpainted on my shelf for far too long -- so, since I don't have all that much to do right now (ha!), I took the time today to give the Gillman a proper paint job.

Carnival Sideshow -- family portrait

Here's the entire sideshow family -- this group of castings will be on display at the MCAD faculty art show here in Minneapolis -- Aug 24 through Oct 7, with a reception Friday September 7 from 6 to 8 PM. I intend to sculpt more figures along this line -- when done, they'll be posted here.

Karloff as THE MUMMY

Here's a preview of my wraparound cover illustration for the next issue of SCARY MONSTERS magazine. This is, of course, Boris Karloff as he appeared in THE MUMMY. Acrylic on illustration board. Click on the image for a larger view.

Painted castings

These are early castings of my first three sideshow sculpts -- painted with a faux metal finish.

More Sideshow

Here's the last figure in this batch of Sideshow characters. This is Johnny Eck -- also one of the performers in Tod Browning's "Freaks." This is based on various photos from multiple sources-- as well as still frames from the movie.

Beatty's Minature Sideshow and Odditorium: Part Two

More sideshow sculptures, as promised. Both from Tod Browning's "Freaks," here are Koo Koo the Bird Lady and Angelo Rossitto! More to come (as hinted in the group shot....)

Life drawing -- one more for the road....

Here are a few of the results from this week's life drawing session. One seated pose offered me such a bad view that I only drew the model's arm -- and then did a bunch of quick sketches of the other artists...!