Monster in the bedroom

Painting AZ’s room. Yeah, yeah, I know the tail looks like a Christmas tree. That’s how she wanted it.

 

Antiosour and Bonosour fan art

Man, this month has been so hectic. I never got a chance to post the fan art our friend Isaac drew earlier in January.

As you may recall, AZ’s A and B creatures are enemies locked in an eternal struggle. Antiosour “is a crazy bad guy. He doesn’t do anything but sit around looking mad. He can’t even really move around. He tries to take over the world by sitting on a stool and electrocuting people with his antenna, which can send signals through electrical wires.” Bonosour, the good guy, “is a birdie. He never gets electrified because the electric in his antenna goes back to Antiosour’s antenna.” Click here to see Isaac’s depiction of their epic struggle.

Here is a little teaser image. AZ likes the sketch of Antiosour wearing a diabolical-looking vest.

 

Moomin falling off a cliff

This is the Comet in Moominland (Kometen kommer) illustration AZ asked me to paint.

Tove Jansson’s illustration of this scene was once used on the back cover of an older edition, which was available in every English-speaking country except the U.S.
I just learned that (just now!) while searching for an image to post.

I also learned that there is a Moomin book that AZ and I have not read yet…apparently it is rare and out of print. It isn’t available at the public library, or on Amazon or Ebay. If anyone knows where I can find a copy, let me know! I’m too busy now to look into it much, but I’m sure AZ will want to read it eventually.

I lifted those images from Dusty Old Books. There are many more excellent images there, as well as reviews of old books.

 

Moominsummer Madness

Another Moomintroll painting done at AZ’s request. This one is based on an illustration from Farlig midsommar, or Moominsummer Madness. AZ did the lettering in the top-right corner.

Here’s what the original image from the book looks like:

 

O-Slosh by AZ

O-Slosh is an alien with 3 eyes, 1 eyebrow, and tentacle legs. Here is what AZ typed:

“here is what az has to say about o-slosh:
he lives on mars in a hole and eats all his food, then he goes to get
more mars food!!!! the ONLY thing he dous is EAT!!!!!”

 

Ouroboros

 

Ood

 

Nguruvilu

The “fox snake” is an aquatic canid from Chile that causes dangerous whirlpools. It has a claw on its tail, which it uses to…wait, doesn’t this sound familiar?

Click here for an interesting blog post with descriptions and stories of this creature.

 

Nue

The nue is a Japanese creature with the face of a monkey, body of a tanuki, legs of a tiger, and a snake for a tail. It can turn into black smoke, and fly around tormenting people.

 

Noonin by AZ

AZ says:

“NOONIN is kind of like a moomin. He lives next to the Lonely Mountains. he got locked in a cage for painting himself. He’s eating the bricks in the wall to try to get out of the cage! When he’s not in a cage he eats the bricks from peopl’s houses! Moomins and Snorks eat pancakes and raspberre jam, but noonin eats walls!!

NOONIN is also kind of like a snork and a hemulen. he was green before hhe painted himself!!!
last but not least and the best part…
hes standing on blocks!!!!!!!!!! He’s standing on itsy bitsy tiny blocks…because he’s crazy!!!”