On this day 53 years ago, July 1st 1973 At Warner Park with friends, and only know of Bloomfield, Stubblefield & Sidran. Notice a banner and ask friend Dave, who is The Blue Oyster Cult? Their Tyranny & Mutation tour. All 5 on stage in black leather☀️ One of the best performances ever seen. #music

Ray Harryhausen June 29, 1920 - May 7, 2013 "This is the very last fighting skeleton from Jason and the Argonauts." Ray Harryhausen, July 1991 #Harryhausen #Jason #Argonauts #skeletons #GoldenFleece #fantasy #horror #filmsky #animation #stopmotion

Bubbles... Trying to simulate the effect of light refraction and visual distortion through transparency...and wanted to paint this vintage one piece suit.🎨 acrylic, airbrush, illustration board, 8" x 10" #art #painting #pin-up #swimsuit

The Lone Ranger aired 9.10.66 to 9.6.69. Produced by Herb Klynn & Jules Engel of Format Films, LA; made at Halas-Batchelor Cartoon Film studios in London, and Artransa Park Film Studios, AUS. Art was drawn with china pencil on cels; colored paper was cut or torn for textured BGs.📺🖍️ #animation #art

Watching our pencil test at Hanna Barbera. Pencil tests were too expensive to make on an animation camera so a device called a QAR was used. It seemed more expensive because locating one of them was not easy. Except for Ric Estrada & yt, don't know anyone in this photo. #animation #HannaBarbera #art

Frank Kelly Freas 1922 - 2005 "The Barker 61" Capillary Cigar MAD Magazine, March 1958 Parody cigar advertisement with comedy great, Ernie Kovacs. "The Perfect item for signing contracts in smoke-filled conference rooms." #Mad #art #painting #comedy #parody #comic

Frankenstein drawing from my old buddy, Eric. A great designer, huge horror fan, and collector. Based on the lines, this looks like a calligraphy marker on a large brown paper bag. #art #drawing #FrankensteinFriday #horror

"Forry" Famous Monsters of Filmland #FamousMonstersFriday #ForrestAckerman #FrankensteinFriday #WarrenPublishing

Blade Runner Comic Adaptation No.22 Sept, 1982 Al Williamson Jim Steranko cover #BladeRunner #art #movies #film #scifi #comics #marvel

AGFA Scala 200 ASA B&W Transparency film Have any photographers on #Bsky used this? Had 10 rolls given to me by a friend & still have 4. After mailing to AGFA, I learned it could also be processed with C-41 if you could get someone to run it through their chemistry. #photography #film #developing

Will Welsh Woman's Home Companion Cover, July 1931 Aureus . Praeclarus . Solstitium . Amiculus #artsky #illustration #Deco #Solstice #Summer #Fantasy

Jane Russell June 21, 1921 #actress #HollywoodGlamour #movies #filmnoir #photo

Time for a cruise? #cars #hotrod #32Ford See ya.

Books I was lucky to find and adopt the other day. Top l-r Alex Raymond: His Life & Art; Alex Raymond Rip Kirby portfolio; Brush with Passion: The Art & Life of Dave Stevens; Middle l-r The Book of Virgil Finlay; Al Williamson's Flash Gordon; Bottom l-r Weird Tales; Alberto Vargas #artists #books

Hank Simms would say: Next! The INVADERS... In color

"You're not very smart are you. I like that in a man." #KathleenTurner #film #noir

Alex Raymond 1909 - 1956 Rip Kirby portfolio At a bookstore the other day and found this under a few volumes. Haven't opened it but believe there are 9 or 10 images. It came with the books. #art #ink #Raymond #RipKirby #comicstrip

Greasers... #PaulMcCartney #JohnLennon #GeneVincent #BlueCaps

Little Esther Phillips Aged and Mellow Blues Seems as though I like this song more every year... *It doesn't make sense that Bsky won't play the clip from my U-toob channel, but will play this one? #music #blues #singer #LittleEsther

John Davis 1944 -2026 John was co-owner of Capital City Distribution starting in 1980. CCD enriched comic book fans with unique products & distribution. CCD was internationally acclaimed with centers in US, France & UK. John was loved by fans and artists. He was even a character in Sin City. #comics

So... 54 years ago today we were off to see this guy! #ELVIS #musicsky #ElvisPresley

A couple of background color keys. One is for a 3 field W-E BG5 pan (scene 5), another for a single field BG7 (scene7), from the same location. Color keys and finished backgrounds were painted with Cel-Vinyl color, the same paint used for the animation cels & FX. #animation #art #paint #BG #colorkey

Found a box of animation material. Stacks of new cels and HB (ACME pegged) animation bond; full set of field guides; timing pads, Cartoon Color cel-vinyl charts (32 neutral grays!), a believed lost HB layout guide; some of my FX animation, and BG color keys, etc. #animation #flat #BG #FX #art #paint

Concept art for The Ultimate Secret '83 March 1948 recovery from arroyo 20 miles over the Mexican border. #conceptart #paint #B&W #UFO #saucer #scifi

#FrightClub #TheBlob

Violet Oakley 1874 - 1961 Poster for the Plastic Club Exhibition, Feb 1898 charcoal-gouache & ink on board 12" x 16" Exhibit for 3 of the best illustrators in the history of the profession. Called The Red Rose Girls by their instructor Howard Pyle, a noted voice for equal rights to all artists. #art

Bob Peak 1928 - 1982 Something Wicked This Way Comes 1983 Peak created numerous pieces of art for his movie poster assignments. This is one of several variants for the film. Bob unexpectedly passed away before the movie's release. airbrush, gouache, pastel 30" x 40" #art #paint #film #poster #horror

Ghostbusters is released on this day in 1984... #Ghostbusters#ChicagoCon #MillerMeteor #filmsky📽️🎞️

Paul Gulacy Vampirella No. 85, March 1980 Warren Publishing Company The "Big G" isn't particularly known for painted art, but his illustrated covers were damn good. #art #painting #comics #Vampirella #horrorsky #scifi

It was the first collected series I purchased on disc. A problem with the show today is losing the uniqueness of period. Nothing like this had ever aired. Joe Stefano, producer/writer; best SF writers; 2 set noir lighting; and numerous actors like Martin Landau as Andro the Man Who Was Never Born. 👽

Marilyn Monroe June 1, 1926 - August 4, 1962 Unpublished photo of Marilyn by Gene Coffman. ©February 1954, South Korea #Marilyn #MarilynMonroe #NormaJeane

Drive-In Movie tonight...

Lunch counter airbrush, transparent watercolor, 8" x 10" #art #sketchbook #paint #B&W

Trick 'R Treat airbrush, acrylic 20" x 24" #WitchyWednesday #Halloween #PinUp #art #paint #horror

Caroline van der Leeuw (Caro) Its been around for a while, but if you're not familiar with the extremely talented Caro Emerald, her label Grandmono, and Planet X animation, this is a real treat. A touch of Jay Ward by way of Saul Bass. #Music #animation

World Goth Day transparent watercolor, airbrush, ruling pen 8.5" x 15" kas #art #paint

🫦 Seriously...? From a live painting class demonstration in 2001. #art #paint #expression #face #lift

Sing Sing Sing The impeccable timing of Goodman's orchestra at their finest. BG was a perfectionist and it's on full display here. If you got the look it was goodbye tomorrow. Harry James & the incomparable Gene Krupa, who Goodman once claimed "Beat the skins like they owed him money," are featured.

Live portrait of Karloff as The Monster, by Rolf Armstrong. #art #FrankensteinFriday #Universal #horrorsky

Seven Days In May John Frankenheimer and Rod Serling's masterpiece released in 1964 is a yearly view for me. A political thriller set in the near future (1970), represents film making at its finest. Frankenheimer was encouraged to make the film by John F. Kennedy's hope that it be produced. #filmsky

Frank Frazetta 1928 - 2010 American Artist, May 1976 Fifty years ago you could walk in to a bookstore, newsstand, or art store, pay a buck and a quarter for an issue of American Artist magazine, and get this. A fine publication about various aspects of the art world. #Frazetta #art #paint #fantasy

Carole Lombard airbrush, transparent watercolor, charcoal: 8" x 10" KS #art #paint #sketchbook #B&W #filmsky #glamour

Hans Ruedi Giger February 5 1940 - May 12 2014 #artist

Western studio entrance. #photography #art #sunset #astronomy

"I remain as always . . . obediently yours" #OrsonWelles #MercuryTheater

Alan Shepard aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain moments after splashdown. 5/5/1961 My family had moved in to a new development with construction underway. I was 4 & playing outside when my mother called me in to watch this, with 20 workers following. #Spaceflight #Mercury #Freedom7 #Astronaut #NASA

Taliesin Obelisk October MCMLXXXIV Canon F-1, FD 85mm, f:1.8 Kodachrome 64 #photography #architecture #FrankLloydWright #design #Taliesin #sculpture #landscape #FLW

Happy birthday to my ole' pal Doug Wildey 1922 - 1984!!! #comics #RIO #JonnyQuest #JackArmstrong #Jana #StretchBannon #animation #Wildey

Live portrait... oil on canvas-board 12" x 16" #artist #painting #oil #portrait #traditionalmedia