Bitty Baddy Jason Vorhees

I have especially loved doing Bitty Baddy Jason. I grew up on Friday the 13th movies and my favorite part was always the glimpses of humanity. Particularly in the Friday the 13th: Part II where the token survivor girl donned his mother’s sweater. The head tilt would always make me wonder if there was a chance at redemption.

Doing Jason presented the challenge how to make a Bitty Baddy without eyes? Jason is mostly recognizable from his hockey mask and machete. So, I went back to the first Friday the 13th movie where we see Jason as a child drowning. It’s never established whether this scene was a dream or reality, but I used the face as a reference. In particular I used the a sculpture by Casey Love for reference.

To be recognizable as Jason though, I’d need to feature his mask. Always inspired by the prolific Margaret Keane I used her 1963 painting “Happy Mask, Unhappy Boy” for the the composition.

To date, he’s my favorite!

Published by jparmann

Artist, mom, business owner, public art cheerleader, horror fan, wicked witch

2 thoughts on “Bitty Baddy Jason Vorhees

  1. Excellent! Ran across it while doing a GIS while I was trying to figure out what the big-eye paining was in the Keese bedroom in the 1981 masterpiece “Neighbors”.

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