Happy Kwanukaah!

December 31st:  My Scanner Breaks Once a Year

Luckily, I have a little bit of a stockpile lying around.  Expect some fun stuff and a bit of site reorganization as the new year unfolds.  In the meantime, here's a new version of the thing that started it all:

December 28th:  Post-Holiday Geekery

  I'm not a Dungeons & Dragons fan at all, but this Holiday someone gave me a bunch of D&D miniatures to playtest for kicks and giggles.  That's my excuse for the upcoming slew of Old School elder-Geek paintings that are coming your way.  Not that I needed much of an excuse to paint monsters though. 

December 26th:  Christmas Paintings for the Family

December 25th:  Christmas in Catalonia!

Click here to learn about Catalonia Christmas!

Click here to learn more about Christmas in Catalonia!

And a Special Song from Head Injury theater and the Internet:

The Head Injury Theater Choir singing "Ding Fries are Done."

(If you don't get the joke, you didn't use the Internet properly 5 years ago.)

There will be more later, once my family opens their Christmas Presents.  Come back later this Christmas Day.

December 24th:  Christmas Eve.

Hey Kids!  Come back tomorrow on Christmas Day for a special Holiday surprise.  In the meantime, enjoy some Opera that has nothing to do with your holiday of choice:

December 22nd:  Frosty Freakshow Extravaganza

  Everyone loves Frosty the Snowman and his conjoined twin.

Does anyone remember last year's scary Christmas Tree?  Say hello to Ms. 2006:

My two favorite holidays, together at last.  Speaking of things that are Christmas-like but still pretty scary, I found something AMAZING the other day.

It's an inflatable Santa mask/helmet.  It offends all the senses.

See you in your nightmares. 

December 20th:  A Christmas Poem (+1)

A Terrible Christmas Poem (that is Terrible)

by Jared von Hindman

Oh, Kris Kringle,

you make my spine tingle.

You want me to sit on your knee

and throw me in the chimney.

I'm not sure what to think of that...

Say, what's that under your hat?

On a different note, I did this for the webcomic Hidden Disquises as part of a big online artist Secret Santa Fan Art/Guest Comic bit of madness.  Yes, I got to paint anthropomorphic animals because that's just how we roll this Xmas.  Still, I think it came out rather well.

December 17th:  Nightmare Santa (again) and More

  Spooky Santa, Coral Gargantua, "A Weird Doodle I crapped out by not letting my hand sit still"

Oh and while this year's voodoo will be here a little later, might I buy myself some more time by reminding you of what I did last year?

December 15th:  The Devil and the Dead Baby

 You have to love Opera.  Where else can you have the Devil drive a woman insane about her dead baby?

December 13th:  Rocko Rocko, Cheeka!

  Dance for Jabba, atema je cheeka!

December 11th: They used to laugh and call him names...

  Happy Holidays, everyone.

December 9th:  Elektra, Opera Fun

  I love Operas with totally insane plots about people going crazy and slaughtering their parents with an ax. 

December 7th:  Thaw, Maw, and Bra.

Here Comes the Sun, Gleeful Crocodile God, Doodle Starl

December 5th:  Opera Calendar 2007 & NightCat 4

  I'm terrible at pimping my own stuff, but today I finally got the new Opera calendar up on Cafe Press.  There'll be a non-Opera variant up there soon, but right now I'm just hyped that the new Opera inks turned out so well.  If you're one of the Opera freaks who visits the site, make sure to click the "View Calendar Pages" link to see all 12 months.  Oh and in case you haven't figured it out, click the image to see the Opera Pimpage.  (Note to Self:  Get the old crap off of Cafe Press.  It's embarrassing.)

I did this little guy on a tiny canvas I had lying around...and, when it was completed, I painting another piece on top of it in Glow-in-the-Dark paint.  The two have a bit in common, but you have no idea how fun it is to turn the lights off and paint with luminescent acrylic.  My kingdom for a camera that's good enough to capture such visual magic.

December 3rd:  Totentango (and Diva of the Dead)

  If I told you this was from a nightmare I had, would you think less of me?

  Every year I do a Diva of the Dead for the Opera Calendar.  This year I didn't like it enough to put it in, but I still like it enough to share.

December 1st:  Falstaff (in Ink)

  A few of you guys have wondered why there's been a little bit of a slow down (why the article on brain-eating worms isn't up yet).  The answer is that today was the deadline for a lot of different things, from guest comics to installation pieces to yee olde Opera designs.  Every year I have to do another batch of them, and this year I'm honestly happy with how they're coming out.  This one's Falstaff and if you don't believe that a style can shift over the course of a year, look at the same opera painted by me 12 months ago by clicking HERE.  It's a tad....different.  A smidgen of variation, if you will.

All images copyright 2006 Jared von Hindman.