Title: The Bloofer Lady

Medium: Airbrush and colored pencil on illustration board

Size: 15" x 19"

Comments: One of my favorites. This is my version of the Lucy character from Dracula. After her apparent illness and death, Lucy is buried. But, in the neighborhood of Hampstead Heath, children start turning up missing overnight. They are found with small bites on their throats and speak of a "bloofer lady" that comes to play with them.

I am told that "bloofer lady" is old English slang for "beautiful lady". Well, that she is. But, few things are more terrifying.

When Van Helsing and crew become aware of the children's stories, Lucy is suspected as one of the undead, or "nosferatu".

They confront Lucy near her crypt, red handed, with a child on which she had been feeding. Stoker describes her "sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to volptuous wantoness." The other quote that inspired this piece was : "If ever a face meant death - if looks could kill- we saw it at that moment."

Her dress is an actual 1800's Victorian wedding dress from London. Beautiful piece of work that really sets off the painting.