Zombie Stories

Over the past few months, I've been working on some content for a new zombie anthology with a few friends of mine. As I was laying in bed one night, I just kept thinking how cool those old Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories books were back when I was a kid.  I wanted to do a throwback to them, and since every painting I do, while I'm developing my skill with watercolor, I want to try something new, I went with a really wet, free technique and just started painting.  After about ten minutes, I started to see a couple of bodies and a windmill developing in the negative space, and I just ran with it.

There's also a nice negative of a tree forming there on the left. See it?

What followed was a series of laying down color, disappointment, picking up the color, and starting over again. I think I re-did the texture on the windmill at least five times, and the dude on the right got completely sucked up and repainted. Eventually, though, I got to a point where I was okay with what had gone down. I rinsed all of my brushes and just went to bed. In the morning, I found these little monsters staring back at me. 

After a little while in the Gimp, I was finally staring at what may just be the cover of this collection. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime, enjoy Zombie Attack at the Windmill; Reeves Watercolors on 9X12 Strathemore Coldpress.