Day 05: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2024

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2024:
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

D'oh!  I guess I could have saved this one for Franken-Friday, but I usually spend the first week going through various "Classics".  Also, I have plenty of other options for the Franken-Fridays.  This time, it's "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), which was far more slap stick and Vaudeville than I remembered when I first saw it on TV as a kid.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils done with colored pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" extra-heavy toned cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  Here's the first pass with Acrylic paint.

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STEP THREE:  And here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 8-1/2" x 11" extra-heavy toned cardstock.

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Day 04: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023:
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Elsa Lanchester as "The Bride of Frankenstein" is another movie I return to in this self-imposed challenge.  Between the streaked, Marge Simpson hair and the perpetually startled look in her eyes, there is something compelling about her.

The movie which was always treated as a horror movie when I was a kid, upon watching it as an adult it leans so heavy into camp and almost reads as more of a comedy.

I couldn't decide if "The Bride of Frankenstein" works better with Caucasian skin tone or green skin tone, so I decided to cheat and do it in black-and-white.  Well, Paynes Gray and Titanium White.

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STEP ONE:  Here is a quick outline done in Paynes Gray to suggest the general outline to figure out where everything was going to go on the page.  I painted it on an 8-1/2" x 11" extra thick cardstock which was primed with a 50/50 mix of gesso and matte medium.

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STEP TWO:  And here's the first pass with Paynes Gray and Titanium White.

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STEP THREE:  It's the finished painting, done with lots and lots of back-and-forth pushing the darks and the shadows.

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Done with Acrylic paint on 8-1/2" x 11" gessoed cardstock.

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Day 03: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021:
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

I know, I've already done a couple drawings and paintings of "Bride of Frankenstein", but Elsa Lanchester's image as the Bride is rather arresting.  Perhaps it's the Marge Simpson hair... who knows?  So, here she is again!  In the book, Dr. Frankenstein builds the Monster's bride-to-be, then desroys it as the last minute in a fit of regret.  (The book is very different from the movies and the popular conceptions of Frankenstein's Monster--it was something of a revelation to me as a youngster.)

And, it's another movie which seemed like a horror movie when I was a kid, but looking at it now is unbelievably campy and borderline comedic.

And, yes, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist and not his creation; the REAL Monster is the one who points out that pedantic point.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the pencils, done on 8-1/2" x 11" toned cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  And here's the first bit done with black and white gouache, working on the lighting of the face.  I was half-tempted to just wash out a few areas and touch-up some highlights and keep it as is.

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STEP THREE:  The large black areas where done with ink and brush, and used the black-and-white gouache worked a little more to model the face and hair and called it done.

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This was done with ink and gouache on 8-1/2" x 11" toned carstock.

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Day 05: Bride of Frankenstein - 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

Day 05: Bride of Frankenstein

Hey, hey, hey!  The 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween keeps on going.  This time, it's the Bride of Frankenstein.  Or, technically, I guess it is the Bride of the Monster, with Frankenstein being the name of the scientist, and the Monster being the one who points that out (yeah, a classic joke which I cannot stop telling whenever I mention Frankenstein--which is surprisingly often.  Several time on this Blog, alone).

This was painting with acrylic on 6" x 8" gessoed hardboard.  For this painting, I used a rather limited palette of M. Graham acrylic paints:  Titanium White, Lamp Black, Payne's Gray, Anthraquinone Blue, and Yellow Ochre.

Alas, most of the subtlety of the painting was lost in the scan, itself.  Some of the blended areas and lines scan a little more harshly than they are in actuality.  Oh, well.  

Also, I was hoping to get 3 drawings and paintings done this evening to catch me up 'til next week, but kept working on The Bride of Frankenstein until I got it (mostly) right, so only the one painting.  Sigh, that doesn't bode well for my hoped for schedule.  Double sigh...

Here's the progression for those interested...

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Done with acrylic paint on 6" x 8" gessoed hardboard.

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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Sure, Halloween is officially over, but I'm still feeling vaguely inspired by the classic monster movies of yore.  This time, it's "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).  Sure, the Bride makes a brief appearance in the book before she is destroyed by Dr. Frankenstein, but here's the movie version of those 1 to 2 pages in the novel!  And, again, I was struck by the amount of slapstick in the movie.  It seemed very strange and jarring to me that I didn't remember it being quite so comedic in its attempt when I was younger.

The again, when I was a 7-year-old, I thought "Plan 9 From Outer Space" was pretty scary, too.  But, I may have said too much... :-D

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Here are the loose pencils on a sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.  And, once more, I find the pencils to be generally superior to the inks.  Sigh.

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And here are the inks, done with a No. 4 round brush with Speedball Super Black ink.

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And here it is scanned it into Photoshop and colorized it as a monochrome with a MULTIPLY Layer.  I decided to do the coloration in the same manner as "The Invisible Man" (1933) post, below.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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