For the latest 826 Valencia field trip I arrived Thursday morning and was surprised to see a group of folks from Santa Fe New Mexico who would help out with the field trip to see how it is done. That meant instead of the 5 people who usually work the field trips, there was more …
Tag: illustration
Feb 11
Lots of Art Links
Watercolor paintings of Warner Bros. Cartoon Characters by Scott Seeto for the Warner Bros. Store. Great stuff. LINK Blue Sky Disney has reported the loss of movie poster artist John Alvin who is best know, to me, for the beautiful moody preview poster for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. LINK He also worked on: Aladdin, …
Feb 08
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: Annie’s Gold
Annie is a funny colored hamster who wants to mine for gold during the American Gold Rush in California. So she leaves from her home in Spain to go to California on the back of a swimming horse. She’s attacked by flying pigs before being rescued. Â [singlepic=396,320,240,,][singlepic=395,320,240,,] click for a bigger image This is the …
Jan 24
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: The adventure of the French Veggies.
Today was the first 826 Valencia field trip of the year in which I work with a school group to illustrate a story they write as a group. Now, I won’t post the whole story like some folks have done (I am lazy I guess), but I will show you the drawings I created. [singlepic=388,320,240,,] …
Jan 17
SDCC 07 Pirate Panda
This piece was drawn at the San Diego Comic Con 2007 last July. It’s a sketch xeroxed onto card stalk and then colored with Watercolors. Not a perfect drawing, but that was a lot of fun to do. Â [singlepic=380,320,240,,] I would like to re-do this piece as a finished illustration this year.
Nov 25
Monsters and Thugs
Here are some new illustrations I created while mellowing out after a hearty Thanksgiving Dinner. They are created with washes of goash and then scanning them into the computer and adding digital coloring. [singlepic=333,320,240,,] A imaginary rock band, the Monsters in a faux album cover. I might have to use it if I make any …
Nov 24
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: Crystal Blue
These are some drawings I did at the 826 Valencia writing center in San Francisco CA. I volunteer to work as an artist and illustrate the work of visiting school groups in real time. Instead of my usual storybook illustrations these were storyboards drawn with preteens. I really like the mixed media approach that happened …
