I have completed more than ninety (and counting) highly successful commissioned spooky paintings, nearly all of them of homes very much like your own!

 

Old homes, new homes, remembered homes, imagined homes, each one complete with people, pets, seasonal decorations... whatever can be pictured or described to me... plus a host of ghosts hidden in the painting to delight each viewer. (Small children especially love trying to find them all!)

 

My aim is to amaze and delight each client! (and I haven't failed yet!) I love every detail of inventing each haunted painting.

 

I know of no one else who so occupies this little niche specialty I've created.

 

I'm Lewis Barrett Lehrman, veteran graphic artist and illustrator, professional watercolorist, teacher of watercolor and artistic journaling at the Scottsdale (AZ) Artists' School and elsewhere, and author of six books on art for artists.  For three years, I served as founding American Editor for International Artist Magazine and helped to launch that publication over a decade ago. These days, however, you'll find me in my studio most of the time, working on spooky commissioned paintings, as well as new subjects for The Haunted Studio.

 

The Haunted Studio came about over a decade ago, as the internet was coming of age. I sold my first prints of a couple of Halloween themed paintings on eBay. Buyers showed great interest in more paintings, and that was all it took to get me going.

In 1998, not long after I established The Haunted Studio, I received an odd request from a print purchaser, to create a remembrance of Halloween as she remembered it from her childhood -- and therewith booked my first commissioned Halloween painting.