My HOUDINI Artwork

Below are several paintings I did of Houdini. There are numerous styles here, all but one was painted with acrylic paint. The oddball is the black and white image which is water colors. This is not the complete group of Houdini art, but it's all I can find photos of.

 This is a water color painting. I believe I painted this in the late 80s or very early 90s.

This upside down straight jacket escape caricature was done around 1999 or 2000. At least I think it was. It's certainly an older painting though not as old as the water color.

The above caricature of Houdini is actually the second of this type. The first had different colors and I was never quite happy with it so I duplicated the drawing and painted it again with a different color scheme.

This was supposed to be just an experiment in painting eyeballs and I liked it so much I kept it. Because of the green tint, some people think it's the HULK but it's actually the eyes of Houdini.

Speaking of experiments, the above painting was not supposed to turn out. It was another experiment or exercise if you will. I just threw down a quick sketch and then wanted to see how fast I could paint the face. When I finished the face I liked it so much I decided to keep it. In fact, it was the first in a series of paintings that I call "The Magic Hats". This was a group of paintings of magicians all wearing different hats.

A totally different style of caricature and one that I thought turned out really well. It's one of my favorite paintings.

This was taken from an early photo of Houdini. I wanted to see how the whole thing would look in color rather than black and white. The sketch and thus the painting is slightly different from the original photo, but essentially it's the same layout.

The latest of the Houdini's. This was was actually changed slightly, but I don't have a photo of the updated image. It's still basically the same I just made one minor change. I personally was quite happy with "Stained Glass Houdini", though it's actually on canvas!

There are others but as I said, I had photos of these and I don't have photos of the others.

My Le Grand David Artwork

The original painting I did for Cesareo & Company

Cesareo Pelaez was very encouraging in many parts of my life, writing and painting were two big ones. These blogs are a continued reminder of his words to 'keep writing'. And with over 100 paintings devoted to magic, I think that speaks for itself. Among the 100 paintings though are several I did of Cesareo and David Bull. Three of my paintings hang in the Gallery at the Larcom Theatre in Beverly. Below are a few of the ones I painted and there will be more to come.

LeGrand David & My Folks

Mom, Cesareo, Dad

I just finished writing a little about my visits to see Cesareo and the cast of the LeGrand David Show in Beverly Mass, over at my other blog. Well, I thought I'd share with you some photos of a trip that I didn't take but was taken on my behalf. My folks went up to see Cesareo and LGD family. I'm sure part of the reason was to say thank you to Cesareo for the positive affect he had on my life.