Behind The Artworks: Demonessa - Taste Of Blood (2026)

I knew right away I wanted to paint a skull, but didn't know how to include it at first. After some sketches, I landed on a skull filled with blood that a woman is ready to drink from. I even took a photograph of myself posing with my Halloween decoration skull, that I have on display all year round.

The woman in the painting is a mystery to me. Every time I paint a woman, it ends up looking like her. I have no idea who she is, but she clearly wishes to be seen.

I painted the album cover with oil paints, and after it dried, John took a photograph of it and slightly edited the colors, making the edges darker and correcting tiny things with a computer, like my signature, which ended up being too faint in the original painting.

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