Thank you Henry Lawson

This pice is from the short story "They Wait on the Wharf in Black" by Henry Lawson. It pretty heavy, but paint such wonderful pictures with words.

Here is a link to the story in case you want to take a read:
http://www.americanliterature.com/Lawson/SS/TheyWaitontheWharfinBlack.html

Enjoy

I had a chance for another plein air pastel

I don't have that many chances to get out and do plein air pastels these days. However I found and hour on vacation and cranked these out.

I hope you enjoy

More process

This stuff was shown over at the character design blog ( see below), but I figure not everyone saw it. This is a quick photo process for my Rip Van Winkle illustration.

Enjoy

Thank you Mark Twain

This one is from Mark Twain's Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County. Calaveras County is about a two hour drive from where I grew up. As a kid we I went to Mark Twain's cabin near Angel's Camp on a school field trip. Every year Calaveras County still has frog jumping competitions along with their county fair.

Thank you Edgar Allen Poe.

Sadly I do not have a lot of time to do personal work that I can show on this blog the way I used to. I'm working on some children's books, but for legal reasons I cannot show any of it. Likewise, I cannot show any of my production work from Pixar (except stuff already published). I decided to start reading a bunch of short stories and will try and get an illustration done form the one I like best in a week of lunches, flat. That means I have a total of 5 hours to read the story develop the characters and environment as well as paint the final piece. There is no way I can do this every week it will just burn me out, but here is my first attempt.

This illustration is form Edgar Allen Poe's the Cask of Amontillado. Just a great story all round.

Thanks again for all the kind comments.

Reason for my absence.

I don't normally talk about my work on this blog, but this time I will make an exception.
I have not been posting as much as I would like do mostly to work. Finally the fruits of that labor have arrive in theaters and I can tell you about it. I worked for a while on Up, but the bulk of my work for the last year has come from Production Designing Pixar's newest short Partly Cloudy. It was a huge challenge, but a wonderful experience I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Interview over at charater design blog

It has been far to long. I will add another post soon explaining my absence and hopefully bring many more timely posts in the future.

Here is the link to my interview there is some new work at the bottom of the gallery. Enjoy.

Character Design Blog

Finally a new post

Work and Family are filling all my time these days, but I do get a chance now and then to do some personal work.
This is a commission done for a show and book called Dogs In School. I'll make a post about the project when the site gets up and running. I'll try an post some of my roughs for this in the coming days.

Enjoy,

Finally a new post

It has been a while. Life has pushed me into the fast lane on bicycle. It's all good, but I have little time for my own work these days. This is a commission I somehow found time to do for Steven Gettis and his wonderful art collection (see link below). The them is literary character/author/figure, I chose Beatrix Potter and her most famous creation Peter Rabbit. Her work was a hug influence on me as a child and I have never forgotten.
Steven Gettis Collection

More plein air painting

A pastel done while camping with my family in the Sierra Nevada Mountains recently.