My Sister's Film Needs Your Votes...

Please pass this on to your family and friends...

As some of you may already know, my sister Melissa Kosar won 2nd place with her short film “The Doll Hospital” in the Lifetime Movie Network’s “Every Woman’s Film Competition” and was flown out to the Hamptons International Film Festival in New York where the film was presented this past weekend.

Now, it is time to vote for the Fan Favorite, and she needs your votes! Please go to the following website address and vote for “The Doll Hospital” by Melissa Kosar:

http://www.mylifetime.com/fun-games/sweeps/vote-your-favorite#video

I think you can only vote once per day per computer, so if you have several computers, please use them to vote the same day, and try voting again each day until November 20th when the voting ends.

You can see more of Melissa’s work on her website: www.kosforthreeproductions.com

Thanks for your help! It is really appreciated!

Image © 2008 Melissa Kosar

SATANIC PANIC Premiere Dates...

BE THE FIRST TO SEE MY CREATURE COME ALIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN!

The Independent Horror Creature Feature-length Film SATANIC PANIC by Marc Selz Productions will premiere on Friday, November 28, 2008 at The Westin Chicago North Shore 601 N. Milwaukee Ave in Wheeling, IL. There will be two screenings, one at 8pm and one at 10pm. Tickets are $5 each. Free popcorn. There will be a cash bar.

Tickets are available at the door and on pre-order. To pre-order, please contact: satanicpanicinfo@aol.com

I designed and created the Creature Effects (the pictures cannot be released until after the premiere). I also designed and created several Special FX Props, including the Sacrificed Animals and Satanic Ritual Dagger which can be seen on my website by clicking the above links. (The cloaked "goat-headed" guy in the poster is not the "Creature" - for those of you wondering - but that is the Dagger I created).

Read the latest SATANIC PANIC article on FANGORIA.com - here

View the Press Release on the Premiere - here

For more information, please visit: www.satanicpanicthemovie.com

Image ©2008 Marc Selz Productions, LLC.

Watercolor Life-Drawings...

90 Second Warm-up Poses (click to enlarge)

45 Minute Long Pose (click to enlarge)

30 Minute Long Pose (click to enlarge)

These are a few life-drawings I did in a class at the Elmhurst Art Museum which I took for practice. I'm not used to working this fast,... I have been spoiled by the American Academy of Art's 2 hour per day, four days a week life-drawing long pose (which I took advantage of the extra time). The charcoal was going pretty slow for me for this class, so I decided to use wet media to cover as much of the paper as possible in the short amounts of time per pose. It is definitely a lot looser than my regular style, but I feel it is kind of freeing, and helps to train the eye by moving fast and blocking in the shapes and shadows. I am hoping that this practice will help me get faster when I work on my tighter gouache paintings. For those of you who really know my work, I'd love to hear your thoughts on these pieces.