Artist Phil Ball shared with us his beautiful The Amityville Horror painting, as well as a video tat details the creation of said art.
“I decided to a reworking of the film poster, to capture that eerie house in all its grandeur,” he explained on his blog.
“Alongside Psycho, it is probably one of the most iconic houses in horror history and with the top windows lit up at night just shouts scary story! The house was painted using a digital oil brush technique. This gives it a warmth and texture making the house feel likes it’s jumping out of the paper. This was drawn and painted in Photoshop, once painted I added additional colour saturation on the oranges and blues to give it a stormy moon lit feel, I then added a layer of grey to the bottom of the house to evoke fog or mist creeping across the ground and into the house, as though there was a presence of something there. Finally, I added a little extra light in the white areas and darkened the shadows to provide more contrast.
“The Image was finished by creating a border around the whole thing and using a templete of text from the original film release.”
