Macaroons!

One of my favorite memories from our time in Paris...my girls and their macaroons!

Mr.Peabody & Sherman

So I know this post is several months late, but I figured there is still a few weeks left in 2014, so I'll post some work that I did for the 2014 release of Mr.Peabody & Sherman.  These are some beat boards I was asked to do several years ago for an earlier version of the movie.  The Art Team and Leadership on the project was great, and so the paintings that you see above is a sample of what I contributed to the show very early on.

Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears

If you are looking for a great Christams gifts for your little ones, pick up a copy of Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears.  I illustrated this musical spin on the classic Goldi Locks story and it's out everywhere books are sold.  The pictures above are a sneak peak of what you'll find inside. If you want to skip the lines and buy it online, you can find it on amazon HERE

Love my Lady

I was missing my better half the other day while I was at work, so I drew this to keep her close.

Dragons 2 Charity Auction for Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Above is the piece I created for the Dragons 2 Artists Collection Charity Auction.  If you'd like to bid on the piece you can do so HERE

To see the rest of the Pieces that are up for Auction, you can do so HERE

For mor info on the even, read below:

To celebrate DreamWorks Animation's most highly anticipated and visually stunning sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, over 70 artists and employees from DreamWorks Animation Studio contributed their original works to this collection to help support charity. All items were created and curated by the artist and donated to bring awareness of the film and raise money for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. The DreamWorks Artist Collection, totaling 114 individual pieces, represent a wide range of sizes and formats and come to us from writers, directors, storyboard artists and employees at every level. This is DreamWorks Animation's first ever original show of this kind and it is now up for auction! The auction will close on Nov. 11th at 12pm PST.

At the Old Haunted House

Just in time for Halloween is a new book I just finished illustrating.  It's titled "At the Old Haunted House" and was written by Helen Kettman.  It's a spooky book filled with Ghosts and Ghouls and everything the slithers and goes bump in the night.  The pictures above and below are from the book, with the text not included.  You can find it in stores and online HERE

Band Shirt

A few years back, I was asked to create some art for a band t-shirt. They wanted something with a split screen idea, and so we ended up with this idea of 1/2 astronaut, 1/2 alien, in a Jim Flora-ish insipred design. 

ASStronauts

A few ASStronauts landing on an Alien Planet.

ASStronauts
10" x 15"
Acrylic & Paper Collage
2010

Last Nights Demo

Here is a little Vampire I drew last night as a Photoshop Clean-Up Demo for one of my CGMA Online Character Design Classes. 

Flight & Fury

As part of promoting the release of How to Train Your Dragon 2, a large collection of Dreamworks Artists are putting together a Gallery Show / Auction next month.  All of the money from the event will be donated to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles  The Gallery will be on dispaly at Gallery Nucleus from June 21st - July 6th, with the opening for the show on Saturday evening, June 21st.

Above is my submission for the show.

"Courious"
Paper Collage / Acrylic
8" x 10"
2014

Mothers Day Painting

This was my mothers day gift to my wife Crystal this past weekend.  It was painted from a recent vacation we took, and there is nothing I love more then seeing our daughter Willow in her arms. 

Pager Collage / Acrylic
16"x11"
2014

Favorite Friends

This piece was my contribution to the current show "Imaginary Friends" at Gallery Nucleus.  I drew inspiration from the imaginary friends my daughter might have, thinking about them hanging around in her thoughts.

If you are interested in purchasing this piece, you can have a look HERE

Favorite Friends
8"x10"
Acrylic & Paper Collage
2014

Bike Rides

Loving our afternoon bike rides!

Happy Valentines Day to my Beautiful Girls!

Rainy Day

Willow making sure Scout get's his bath

Guinness + Mary Blair + My Wife = Perfection

So I know this is a little off season, but this morning I stumbled upon this piece I made a few years back inspired by a Mary Blair panting and my wife Crystal.  Crystal and I had just spent some time in Ireland, Scotland, & England with some friends drinking as much beer as possible, and my wife's love for Guinness got me inspired.  I knew there was a really great illustration that Mary Blair did of a girl holding a large pitcher of fruit juice, so I thought I'd swap the girl for "My Girl" and the Fruit Juice for a nice Pint of Guinness.  You can find the great Mary Blair original with a google search and you'll see I tried to keep mine as similar in style as hers, with the obvious few tweaks.

New Character Design Class

Hey Everyone, I'm excited to announce that I'll be teaching a 2nd Character Design Class for the Online Design School CGMA.  This 2nd Class will cover what it takes to work as a Character Designer for a Professional Production.  Click HERE for more info on the Class and how to sign up.

Love My Girls

The Best a Husband & Father could ever have!

Character Design Class -Winter Term Sign Up

Hey Everyone, just wanted to let you know there are only 5 days left till my next class starts. So if you'd like to sign up for my 8 Week online Character Design Class for the Winter term, click HERE for class sign up info.

Rise of the Guardians

Several years ago, I was asked to create a few illustrative story murals for each of the main character's for Dreamworks new movie Rise of the Guardians.  Production Designer Patrick Hanenberger had a great idea of establishing each character's background story in the form of a mural.  In doing so we began to not only develop each characters shape and color language, but we had a fun time capturing bits of each characters background story which came from the original story material from William Joyce.  Shown here are just a few of thees mural illustrations I did, you can check out the rest of the murals in the art of book, as well as a few other sketches I did for the film.