Art-ing, Busy Octobers, & Revamping Old Newsletters

Not long ago, I started visual art-ing again. Art has been a thing for me for as long as I can remember. It may have started with writing, or it may have started with sketching. I'm not quite sure. But I'm back in the swing of both now. I've found that spending time doing both provides a nice mix for me. With the latest completed art piece, I experimented with fountain pen and ink instead of my usual charcoal. I liked it enough that I'm adding it to my artist toolbox.

We're over halfway through October already, and it's flown by faster than a bat at midnight. The day job—which I don't talk about much—has been quite busy, as well as some other entrepreneurial things I do. And, for moonlighting with all things horror, I've been working hard on big and small projects. One of those is revamping old newsletters with original artwork.

revamp

‍Derived from re- (prefix meaning 'again, anew') +‎ vamp ("to patch, repair, or refurbish"). I, however, like to think of it in more vampiric terms—such that every "revamp" sucks the life out of the old while breathing a little immortality into the new. It's less of a repair job and more of a midnight makeover with a bite. 🧛🩸🦇

I finished the first one with the aforementioned fountain pen and ink, and I'm happy with the result. Check it out.

Also, if you haven't read the Blackwater series by Michael McDowell, then I'm officially recommending it. It just so happens that Michael McDowell wrote the screenplay for the original Beetlejuice movie—though his vision for it was much, much darker than the 1988 film portrayed.

What's New?

• Writing, revising, art-ing, revamping. ✍️📝🎨🔄🧛‍♂️
• Upcoming Into Horror History: The strange tale of a man whose nightly walks in Pennsylvania became legend.