Analog Artist Digital World

Gotta mention that my good friend Tom Buzbee and I got a mention on the talented Tom Thorspecken's Analog Artist Digital World blog! It's a great art and local Orlando event blog, highly recommended! Thorspecken is an Orlando event reporter except instead of taking pictures, he sketches the event (or part of it) in watercolor. A different perspective! He was a clean-up artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida and now teaches in the 2D Animation class at Full Sail University's Computer Animation department. I worked at Disney Florida on "Brother Bear" and although we never worked together, I hold Thor in the highest respect for working at the studio. Personally, it's great to see artists from the animation studio make art around Orlando.


Check out Thor's post and sketch here and follow him: http://www.analogartistdigitalworld.com/2012/06/first-thursdays.html

Collaboration

I've started a big painting (5'x7') collaboration with our school's Resident Artist and my friend, the amazingly talented Tom Buzbee! Click on his name to see more of his work and you will see why I am super excited about it! The man is not only a fantastic fine artist who's found his own voice but as an illustrator, I respect him highly for working in places like NASA and Disney's EPCOT. And I always was a bit jealous that my friends McArthur Albert and George Frei got to do painting with him so I'm really glad I finally get to do one!


I will try to post progress photos of the painting here on the blog as we go along. After stretching & double priming the big canvas, here's our 1st step: covering the background in expressive washes of black acrylic paint. The rectangles you might see in it are pieces of paper towels that we threw on it to soak some of the paint out. They left some of the pattern & shapes from the paper towels and we also threw them back at the painting to build more textures. Click on the photo for a closer look:

Updated the masthead here with something, dunno if I like it yet but it'll be there for a while until I get tired of it...

Avengers doodles

Did some Avengers quick sketches (and a Downton Abbey surprise) on a storyboard pad with a Pentel Stylo pen for fun last week after watching the movie. It was fun! Go check them out at the Dos Illustros blog!

http://dosillustros.blogspot.com/2012/05/avengers-doodles.html 

1st thursdays pt. 2

Here is the full Bugs Bunny piece, which along with my Amélie Poulain piece (12"x18" acrylic on canvas) and Audrey figure drawing (9"x12" on marker paper"), were exhibited at the OMA 1st thursdays Full Sail Art Show last May 3rd. Original is 24"x36" painted in acrylic on wood, not for sale at the moment but contact me if interested in prints! Click on the images for a bigger view:

Bugs Bunny, 24"x36" acrylic on wood

Amélie Poulain, 12"x18" acrylic on canvas

Audrey, 9"x12" Copic Markers on marker paper

1st thursdays

Fellow students, staff, and faculty (including myself) of Full Sail will be exhibiting artwork at the Orlando Museum of Art's 1st thursdays event this coming Thursday May 3rd. My Amelie & Bugs Bunny paintings and Audrey figure drawing got in. Come on down and say hi, $10 gets you in the door!

Digital ink

Quick digital ink portrait in Corel Painter IX, hope you like!  -h