Suspense!

Made it with a few minutes to spare!

When the shooting wraps, the cutting begins!

Here's my entry for this week's theme, Suspense! For me, I think of one thing when I hear the word suspense...Hitchcock. The Master. My piece imagines a world where the director can't help but get in on the action after the cameras have stopped rolling. I think I will probably paint this one up when I get to a lull in my schedule. But for now, here's the drawing.

"The Wages of Sin"

"The Wages of Sin" Ink & Watercolor

I've listened to a broadcast of the "Suspense" show called "Lights Out: Knock at the Door." It's a pretty cool tale of a woman that kills her mother in-law. The ghost of the dead woman appears at night knocking at the basement door. In the end the woman contemplates suicide while sitting on a ladder with a noose around her neck. The ghost of the mother in-law pushes the ladder down, killing the woman.

Thanks for letting me be a part of this blog.

http://www.escape-suspense.com/ghost_stories/

"MeadowVale 1212"

"MeadowVale 1212" ... colored pencil on 8"x10" black Canson Mi-Teintes board by Robert Elrod.

When I read Luke's mention of the old radio show "Suspense" being 'radio's outstanding theater of thrills' I had to check it out. My piece is inspired by one of the broadcasts from the show. The episode was called "The Dead Sleep Lightly" and aired March 30, 1943. No, I wasn't around for it but found a great website that lists all of the episodes with links to recordings of the show. If you're interested in checking out the show, here's a link to this specific episode: http://www.escape-suspense.com/2009/09/suspense-the-dead-sleep-lightly.html.

Suspense!

So, my first "real" digital painting.  Pencil and Photoshop, painted on my cheap Bamboo® tablet.  I started to get a feel for the process toward the end, sort of.   This probably could have taken a third of the time I took to complete it, if I had known what I was doing.

Parker

Suspense was a tricky topic for me. The first thing that came to mind was Hitchcock but I didn't want to go with my first inclination. The other thing that came to mind was film noir or just the "noir" genre. I have really been enjoying Darwyn Cook's take on the Parker novels and love the flat blue colors he has thrown into the noir mix and this topic seemed like a good excuse to finally try my hand at that.

Noir has been a genre I am interested in and one day I might just have to do a story with it.