cigars an' I, (me that be)

I profer a thought...
When a bit distrought
an' talent seems blocked

A swirling cigar plume
will quell that fretful fume

K

I don't want to hear they stink or they are bad fer ya....
treat yer-self once to a fine expensive cigar. Select one fer yer palate...mild, light, medium or a heavy bodied.
Robusto or Churchill, torpedo or lancero...finding the right shape an' color is for myself, I reckon, is as fulfilling as hunting for an expensive designer handbag, clutch or shoe...

But, once you have selected your smoke...set yourself under a moonlit night, with stars in the clear. Some classical music or an soundtrack you find dear...
play it softly so not to undo the night sounds you will hear...

and gently puff an' puff an' watch the faces, serpents and dragons twist and swirl up into the sky.

That is relaxing...and inspiring.

Yes, even women can smoke a cigar. I have shared many a nice smoke with Lizz.

And for God's Sake! DO NOT INHALE!

K

Regarding Imps...

Imps an' Impkins an' Boglins. Spook-gobblers and Hobnob Bob-Goblins.
A raucous an' reek-ious wretched time I had with this miserable illustration.
I am finally liberated of it.
I have fretted an' furrowed my forehead and exhausted many a cigar between sketching an' paintin' this depiction.

The illustration was afixed in my mind's eye when I slept.
(All my arty imagery I first see in my sleep, already framed an' story, poem accompanied in brilliant floating letters. I'm never truly free from the synethesia even asleep)

I had completed this art three times an' tossed them aside with a growl to sit with cigar rolling between thumb an' forefinger and wait for the passing of an angel to leap back at the drawing table with some fire in my fingers. My impasse were technical diffculties, not the imagery.

I do end a piece if a line or squiggle is out of sorts with the other fellows. I frustrate every line.

I should note....as the nature of a compulsive perfectionist...I can not attack a final drawing without proper research of clothing style, furniture, rug patterns, cat breed and all other sort of nonesense. If I do not have all these elements researched, sketched, frowned at, stared at and resketched 16 times...I do not feel that it is authentic.

I had started this work prior to October and it is complete.
I am finally liberated of it...

Of course...I know all the names of the Imps an' the Goblins an' the types of them there are. I had to have a complete world for them to live in my thoughts.

I must have pages of Imps an' Goblins all waiting fer thier chance to be in a story an' illustration...they'll have to wait. I need a cigar.

K

The Imp's Delight - New Illustration

Title: The Imp's Delight
Media: Watercolor, Pen & Ink, Acrylic
Dimensions: 8" X 10" SFA (Small Art Format)
Date of Work: November 2009

The illustrations you find here are part of the means of my story creation, the manner in which I work. I welcome you aboard as I navigate through the maelstrom of fits and flashes of inspiration and the doldrums of staring at a blank, white paper with the accompanying realization you’ve got nothing and it’s time for a cigar.

K.W. King

New Logo!

We have a new logo for the Haunted Studio Under The Stairs by Kevin King.
It really captures what we are all about, creepy, yet somewhat sweet and timeless.
Let us what you think?