haunted mansion – The Art of James Richardson

Monday Mash

Starting the week with a mix of Disney and Star Wars paintings. All of these except for the Splash Mountain piece (which is sold) are for sale for $20 each
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Art Drop 2

Day two, and here is some more art that was created recently and shown at the first convention I have shown at. First up is a drawing of the Hitch Hiking Ghosts who are trying to find their way out of Disney’s Haunted Mansion. It is a marker and ink drawing. And this is a piece that sold at the show.

This is a color version of the piece that I did.

Muppets are and have always been important to me. The photo this is based on is just perfect. It is a 5″x7″ watercolor and ink piece and is for sale for $20.

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The Hatbox Ghost

This infamous resident from the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland is named the Hatbox Ghost. His special talent is to make his head disappear from his body and reappear in the hatbox as you pass by him. He is a new member of the 999 happy haunts that fill the mansion but, this is not his first time there. Part of fame comes from the fact that he was an original character when the ride opened. He was there for just a few days and just like you would expect from a ghost, he disappeared completely. In, fact, the animatronic of the character was completely lost!

For the fans, he was that character that we had to know more about. We would crave those photos that surfaced to try and imagine what the Mansion would be like with him in it. I believe that old video footage of him has recently surfaced. Thanks to Disney we no longer have to imagine what the Hatbox Ghost was like because they have made a new version of him and he currently is haunting the attic of the Mansion in Disneyland.

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This is a 6″x8″ ink and watercolor painting

This painting has been sold

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Nightmare Before Christmas-Finale painting

jack-and-sally

Last month during the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge, I finished this painting which I had started earlier in the year. It’s the first painting in a series of Nightmare Before Christmas paintings I’m planning on doing. All of them will be in this same size and format, oil on canvas.

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The Haunted Mansion’s Singing Busts

Singing Busts

As we near our time in the Haunted Mansion(for now), we make our way past some crypts and hear some familiar music being sung by these 5 characters. Probably the most iconic of the characters in the graveyard scene, these characters are still to this day a great looking effect.

Singing Busts original

This is the original drawing in ink and marker before the color job in Photoshop.

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Haunted Mansion’s Cemetery Caretaker

Caretaker

This is one job that most of us would not want! He is the originally named, Caretaker. We run into these two just after escaping the attic of the Haunted Mansion, right before we make our way into the cemetery, They are like the Shaggy and Scooby Do of the Mansion.

Caretaker ink

This is the original drawing in ink and marker before the color job in Photoshop.

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Organist of the Haunted Mansion

Phantom Organist

Today’s foray into the Haunted Mansion brings to the end of The Ballroom where we get to see a room filled with dancers and a huge dining table where a birthday party is taking place. The music for the party is being played for us by this ghostly character. And, as he plays, skulls fly out of the pipes of the organ. But, this is not the end of our trip through the Haunted Mansion, we will be looking at the views from outside, in the cemetery.

This piece was done with ink and markers and colored in Photoshop.

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The Haunted Mansion’s Madame Leota

Leota color

“Madame Leota, the medium who was chanting the plaintive incantations, was quite unique. She was truly a disembodied spirit; a mere talking head inside a misty crystal ball. As she invoked the spirits, objects floated about the room in response to her supplications.”

Madame Leota is our second piece of art for this week and she too is a resident of Disney’s Haunted Mansion. This drawing was originally done in ink and markers and colored in Photoshop. It was created for the video of a Haunted Mansion collectable unboxing video series:

Serpents, and spiders; tail of a rat; call in the spirits, wherever they’re at! Rap on a table, it’s time to respond; send us a message, from somewhere beyond! Goblins and ghoulies, from last Halloween, awaken the spirits with your tambourines! Creepies, and crawlies; toads in a pond; let there be music from regions beyond! Wizards and witches, wherever you dwell, give us a hint, by ringing a bell!

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Enter, If You Dare..

The Mansion color

“Have you ever seen a haunted house? You know the kind I mean. That old, dark house that’s usually at the end of a dimly lit street. The owners haven’t been seen for years; no one really knows why. The windows are broken and boarded, and the shutters hang loose on their hinges. The trees have grown wild; their branches brush against the sides of the weathering house, making strange noises in the night. There’s a high, vine-covered fence around the property… is it there to keep somebody out? Or is it there to keep some… THING inside? It’s a house that people avoid walking past at night. Strange sounds come from within the walls, and it’s said that eerie lights have been seen both in the attic windows, and in the graveyard at the side of the house.”

That is a description of the eerie mansion that is the home of 999 happy haunts, as described on the record, The Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion. And anyone who has made a trip to visit this Mansion at night would probably agree with the description. This is the view you get as you enter the queue and pass the horseless hearse, snaking in front of the mansion as you are on your way to the porch and into the Mansion.

The drawing was completed with ink and markers and colored in Photoshop.

The Mansion

Here is the original non colored version.

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