Here is a humble offering of pictures and punchy wordlets. I am a mother of one little girl. There is no more wordlumber, no more sitting on the hill contemplating, a lot more stepping on lego. I still think I'm quite good at drawing though
Classic Disney animators paint a tree
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Bracketed by Walt Disney reading quotes from Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit,
this delightful short from 1958 briefly visits four Disney animators in the
stu...
The Chicago Tribune Comic Book: Lew Loyal
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If breathless adventure is your cup of tea, and you're willing to deal with
short rations of logic and coherence, *Lew Loyal* is right up your alley.
Thi...
New book on memory drawing
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Much of the training in contemporary academic ateliers focuses on
understanding and interpreting what you see in front of you. At the moment,
there's a gro...
Saint Sceptica
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The first page of my story about the patron saint of critical thinkers. In
full colour. A black & white version of it appeared in Stripburger, last
year.
Frank Cheyne Papé
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[image: Frank Cheyne Pape - The book of Psalms 1898 1]
[image: Frank Cheyne Pape - The diamond fairy book, 1897 2]
[image: Frank Cheyne Pape - The diamond ...
A day in the life of botanical artist Rory McEwen
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Rory McEwan The Colours of Reality
cover of the exhibition catalogue
Today I found out why people rave about the botanical art of Rory McEwen. I went to th...
An Independent Success
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The video embedded above has been viewed almost 42 million times. That's a
number larger than the population of many countries, including Canada.
If you're...
Back
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Paris was great, always a dream to show my art in Paris! Thanks to to all
that came and a special thanks to the Maghen Gallery, Olivier, Daniel,
Dyane and ...
Last Monday Portrait Session of the Year
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Here are a few photos of work from the last afternoon Monday portrait
session of the year. For the last session, we had the opportunity to draw
Gregory of ...
Portrait of Three Children
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36x46in
This is a portrait of three kids that I recently finished. It was painted
on one of my favorite canvas weaves, the herring bone. It's quite a r...
Shrek Village
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This one is from a ways back, 2005 I think. We needed a take on a
traditional medieval village. It's a collaboration, Henrik Tamm did the
layo...
Auction Preview: Sotheby's New York American Art
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Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
*Prometheus (1919)*
31 X 21.25 in.
oil on panel
There is still time to catch the previews of Sotheby's New York auction of *Ame...
Detail Helps Draw the Eye
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This is a panel from the "Prince Valiant" comic book that was available on
Free Comic Book Day. It caught my eye because it's a good example of the
way I l...
The House of Savoy
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Superb illuminated paintings distinguish this visual regional history as an
album of outstanding quality, to my eye. Please do yourself a favour by
clickin...
Sepia Ink
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It’s tempting to try and specify the kind of brown ink that’s been used in
the making of an old master drawing. Iron-gall (black, but changes to brown
over...
Openly Threadbare
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An Open Thread has been requested.
Which is fine by me, because I haven't the slightest inclination to inflict
my breezy ruahminations even on myself. See...
NEWS/SHOP/FACEBOOK
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A little revolution just happened with me... I now have a *FACEBOOK* page !
You can start following my work and more frequent updates there.
Also, as if th...
Who Was Ray Houlihan?
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A few years ago I found this illustration in a 1954 issue of *Saga*magazine. It's by an artist named Ray Houlihan...
[image: Houlihan01.detail01]
... and ...
All These Things That I've Done
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Oh boy. Haven't posted in a long time. I've been posting on tumblr though<<<<<< so that's kind of the place to find me if your looking.
Here is som...
Warming up
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Days are getting longer and the weather is getting warmer around here.
Summer is knocking at the door. I painted in the Berkeley Hills on Friday
afternoon...
Appeal for help!
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I'm working on an exciting book project that will collate all of Searle's
'Holiday' era reportage work of the late 50s through the late 60s. I've
made ...
Fine Art Connoiseur
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Check out the amazing article on the The New York Academy of Art's Tribeca
Ball by Allison Malafronte in Fine Art Connoiseur that my work is featured
in! T...
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Here's the study for Blair and Carole. This is a lot better than the final,
but, y'know, *pencil underdrawing.*..(can't have that in a real brushpen
sketch!)
Some Life
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PUNCH! Girls love punching their guys with a soft sweater. It's a very
cute action.
I like the cartoony hand with the more realistic lighting, b...
"Then and now"
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This little verse appeared years ago in the local newspaper in the area
where I grew up. It was in New Norwegian, my mother tongue, so this is my
attempt a...
WINTER/SPRING 2013 COLLECTION
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Sketchbook by Oscar Martin
Beautiful book, chock full of amazing finished and preliminary drawings as
well as never before seen roughs from one ...
MY ALBUM ON KICKSTARTER!!!
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HEEEEEEEEY! I've been waiting to do this a whole year- I made an ALBUM! But
I need YOU specifically to help my dream come true!!! Lots of art rewards
avail...
Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and Strip Search
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Yeesh, I'm seriously terrible about updating this blog. Lately I've just
had a lot to do, which means not much time for drawing personal stuff.
Hopefully...
Two by Massimo Scolari
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Massimo Scolari, *The Sick Square*, 1971
See my Scolari post on But Does it Float. I'm looking forward to the recent
book collecting these works (Amaz lin...
New Workshop at The Teaching Studios
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To register for this workshop or for additional information, please go to:
www.teachingstudios.com/index.php/the-classical-portrait
The Classical Portrai...
Last Drawings of 2012!
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So 2012 is coming to an end and thought I'd put up the last couple of
illustrations I didn't put up here yet from this year.
Here's a design I did to tr...
"I Say, I Say... Son!"
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I was finally able to get around to reading Robert McKimson Jr.'s biography
of his father, Robert McKimson and uncles Tom and Chuck who all spent time
as ...
Happy Solstice!
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[image: IMG_4188]
The Shortest Day
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people sin...
New Video: The Art of Painting
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Hi Everyone! "The Art of Painting: An In-Depth Look at how an Artist Thinks
and Sees" is now available for download!
In this new tutorial, I delve more d...
Noctura Pencil Tests: Gifted to us from Uriel Mimran
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More beautiful work from Nocturna. I have probably seen most of the movie
in Pencil Test at this point. Hopefully I can get my hands on a copy at
some poi...
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S CURVES The Art of Shane Glines art book now available for iPad and other
mobile devices.
Currently available from the Apple iTunes bookstore
Barnes & No...
O'Reilly & Funz
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To call animator David O'Reilly's body of work unique is an understatement
-- his style is unlike quite like anything else. He embodies an aesthetic
tha...
She-Rawk! "And so it begins..." Ep Debut
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Hello Blog-Universe, I'm back! Well... sort of.
Life has been crazy these past two years with many ups and downs the
biggest being the passing of my swee...
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Here's my Brave fan art!
...Okay so I have been posting daily on my tumblr and I'm not totally sure
what to do with poor lil bloggy over here who is jus...
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Let's be honest here, I have always been HORRIFIC at posting! Sometimes, I
wouldn't post for like, 8 months. HOWEVER, I have finally absolutely
mastered th...
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Too Tired To Work Evenings
I got a call last autumn from the director of an organisation which
provides counsellor training here in Dorset, UK. He offered ...
80's rewind
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Just when you thought shredders spikes couldnt get any spikier! think
again!! Some TMNT collab action with Carlos Villagra and Dustin D'Arnault!
dustin...
OFF/cina - 21/01/2011
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EXPOSIÇÃO
ANDRÉ LOUREIRO
BERN'
CATARINA QUERIDO
DAVID CAMPOS
INÊS COSTA
JOÃO RETORTA
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MARIANA CÁCERES
MARINA MARQUES
MIGUEL RAMOS
MINA...
META: Archive Feedback – Scout Raskin
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Hi there, I’m production supervisor over at Frankenhole, a stop-motion show
on Cartoon Network. I’m really sad to hear that the archive is shutting
down. T...
META: Archive Feedback – Scout Raskin
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Hi there, I’m production supervisor over at Frankenhole, a stop-motion show
on Cartoon Network. I’m really sad to hear that the archive is shutting
down. T...
Composition and Design | Using Dominants
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Arranging visual elements into a successful composition is the foundation
of any good painting. When a painting doesn’t seem to work, painters often
a...
We're moving
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The Google AdSense Team has sent me an email warning me that this blog has
pornography and/or adult content. As an example, they referred me to the 1932
la...
The Nutty Professor (USA, 1963)
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There are those who detest Jerry Lewis. I cannot empathise with them
because I can no more understand them than I can those who disparage
Charlie Chaplin...
HIATUS
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Hello, friends. And I mean that.
In the years since I started this blog, I've made real friends around the
world.
The time has come for a hiatus. Possibly...
HB 4 specials production notes
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***LAYOUT EXTRA NOTE: It's important to not have too many shows going into layout at the same time. It's an intensive stage of production where I have to be ...
6 comments:
Swishy People Puddles. :)
I like the last one. Makes me think of Chritmas. I like those pups as well. Neat!! :)
Thank you Eshniner.
I want an italian greyhound.
Your blogs make me laugh and smile and think. :)
Erumpent dogs indeed!
That top drawing character looks like he's wrestling with God.
- trevor.
Maybe he is.
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