Thursday, April 2, 2009

Foster's BGS and Unicorns

Interior Theater

Theater pan

Interiors



This city BG is Giganto...
I had to make it super small for the web.




Unicorn Stable

Foster's UnicornsI love Foster's unicorns because they have gruff male voices and they don't like to be teased.

Foster's BGs Wilt



Wilt Friend of the Month

Foster's Swimming Pool





Foster's swimming pool with fishies

Foster's BGs

Just starting to shrink these giant files so I can take them off my hard drive!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Some of my favorite mini paintings


Some of my favorite development paintings from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
I think Foster's and Nightmare Ned are my favorite paintings.
Unfortunately, Nightmare Ned is living on a dark shelf somewhere at Disney....boo hoo...







Saturday, March 21, 2009

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

My Prodigy Daughter


When I was 10, almost 11, I did NOT draw like this!
My pencils were No.2 school pencils with hard erasers that made ugly, dark, red marks on my papers. When I painted, I used those white plastic water colors you could buy at Woolworth's (I'm from KY). The palette, if you could call it that, contained the primary colors...blue, red, yellow, an orange, a warm purple, black,
and white. We never had paper you could paint on. The standard white typing paper (yes...typewriters), or old construction paper (from Woolworth's). I didn't know anything about oil paints. Occasionally I smelled them at my Aunt's house when she was working on a painting. But, those were "adult" paints. Not for a 10 year old.

When my daughter was 18 months old she sat at my art desk and drew a perfect circle. Then another, and another. I thought, "Ok...Maybe 18 month olds can draw shapes." By the time she was 4 she was copying her Dad while he drew storyboards. It came naturally for her to tell a story on paper. She made sure to include anything that was important to the story...including props. Eventually we started her in a casual art class on the weekends. It quickly became her favorite place to go. She loved all of the different mediums. Now that she has been in that class for a while, she is in a class with adults. Her favorite medium is oil. And she loves to paint portraits of her favorite female actresses. This one is Liv Tyler from Lord of the Rings.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Good Housekeeping Illustrations



A few Illustrations I found in my file...