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Portland Oregon artist Thomas Webb presents Frights of Fancy at the Pearl District Urban Grind coffee house, located at 911 NW 14th Ave. Portland, OR.
The art show is up for the month of October 2009.

Thomas Webb explains:
I wanted to paint monsters, so I did.
I chose many of the classics.
I painted them in color, pretty much the color you think they are, with some exceptions… I could get away with it because like the dinosaurs, we’ve never really seen them in color…they were black and white movies.

I distorted them to match the image I have of them in my memory. Frankenstein has a big head, the bride of Frankenstein has Marge Simpson hair with that wild streak of white, the Phantom has a big forehead and really big eyes.

Some of the pictures won’t look distorted because you make the same distortions in your memory. Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula doesn’t really have a widows peak.
But, when it comes down to an artist statement I’ll keep it simple…

I wanted to paint monsters, so I did.