Thursday, November 29, 2007

Night


I didn't realize the time flying by. Needed to post again so here you go.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Project X



Right, I've just started to work on something really cool which hopefully I'll release next year. Yeah, I know, just when I thought I was going to go down one track for my next book, something clicked and I'm taking a different route. For the moment, I'll call it project X, and I couldn't be more excited about it. Less posts I'm afraid so I can spend more time on it but I'll keep you updated as it gets developed.
Just at the concept stage, so lots of exploration and decisions to be made.

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Art You Didn't Expect

Ah yeah, a different type of image than you would usually expect to find here. Welcome to all if you came over from the BlogRush wiget. Click the bottom tab of the widget to see what it's all about if you missed the previous post. I've found a whole bunch of art sites I would never have come accross if I hadn't seen them on the side bar. Happy surfing.


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

CRUSH dropped off at the locals

CRUSH is now available in more stores. Just in time for comic wednesday, the newest addition to take copies is the "Comics Factory" located at 1298 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, Ca 91106. It doesn't have a web site, but it's a great book store. The other favourite stores are below todays image. All of them have signed copies.

Also, before todays image, check out the new BlogRush widget with art related sites. It seems to be the buzz of the internet right now. It's free, and it has the potential to share your artwork
with a huge amount of people. Worth taking a look at. Hit the tab at the bottom of the widget to see what it's all about and check out their demo video. Cool stuff. Cheers Bobby for the tip.

Now, this girl will be in the new book. I'll do sneak peeks as time goes on. Here you go for today.....









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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Bridget

A girl from Grafton Street from my last trip home. Best street in the world on a sunny day.




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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Happy Week

Wish I could show you the stuff I'm doing, but I'm holding off so I'll have brand new work to show for the next book. The next one will have mostly unpublished and unseen work. But here's a pic to keep things posting.....



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Monday, October 01, 2007

Sunday, September 23, 2007

AMY WINEHOUSE

Just listened to one of the Amy Winehouse albums. What a voice. Here's an image I did of her while I was listening to it.....



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Sunday, September 16, 2007

SCULLERY PRESS

I'm back. Thanks for stopping by while I was gone. Now for something that I've been waiting to post for the longest time. I've had such a good time putting my book together and enjoyed the process so much that I have set up my own imprint SCULLERY PRESS. I've been really excited about this venture and can't wait to get to book number two. Now you can get the first offering "CRUSH" from SCULLERY PRESS HERE. All my printed work will now be available through the new website. Hope you enjoy the book.




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Monday, August 13, 2007

Gone Fishin'

Yup, I'm off for a bit. Another project finished and now it's time to chill and get some fly fishing in. I'll see you all mid Sept.


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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

OK

Wow, too many things going on, too little time. Another month and everything will be back to normal. So now that the Comic Con is over, where can you get a copy of 'CRUSH"?
It will be available here mid September.

Until then, it will be available online at the fantastic
STUART NG BOOKS.
It’s so new it might not be listed yet, but you can contact them and ask for http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifit.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

If you're local to L.A. you can pick up a copy at the well known and often frequented 'cos it's so good
HOUSE OF SECRETS at 1930 W. Olive Avenue, in Burbank.

Also available from the very cool and famed
NUCLEUS GALLERY at 30 West Main Street
Alhambra, California. They will also have it available online soon.

I'll add more places as time goes on.

Now to keep things moving, back to drawing.......


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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Comic Con Come and Gone

Wow, I had such a great time. Thank you so much to everyone who dropped by and said hi, picked up a book or grabbed a print. I love you all.

I'm not even sure where to start. I was surrounded by the best of the best and enjoyed hanging out and meeting so many fellow artists that I have met through the blog. What a great time. Can't wait to do it again. I'm knackered now, and it's taken longer than I thought to recover.

My thanks go to all who made the con a great experience for me. First, my boothmates made the event fly by. Jeremy, Morgan, Scott, Gabriele and Jakob. A fine bunch of lads I'm honoured to work with every day. Some of the incredible artists I met and now have the great pleasure in hanging out with were Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera, Stephen Silver, Robin Mitchell, Deanna Marsigliese, Patrick Morgan, Josh and Justin Parpen, Pascal Campion, John Neverez, Kevin Dart, Chris Turnham, Elizabeth Ito, Kristen Lester, Griselda Sastrawinata, Louie del Carmen, Alberto Ruiz, and Justin Ridge. My God what a list of talent. Thanks for making me feel at home. Also Stuart Ng, the nicest book seller I've ever met, made me feel more than welcome and was pleased to see my books selling well off his shelves.

It doesn't end there though. I dropped by and met Dean Yeagle, Octavio Rodriguez, Richard Pose, Mike Roush, Daniel Cooney, Matt Stewart, Francisco Herrera, Kelsey Mann, Billy and Catherine Martinez, Erwin Haya, Scott Morse, Bill Presing, Don Shank, Jeff Pidgeon, Ted Mathot, and I finally met Daniel Davis and his lovely wife Dawna.

Now there were so many I didn't get to meet but hopefully I'll fix that in the future. No wonder the time flew by. Cheers everyone. I had a fantastic and inspiring time.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

San Diego Comic Con

Cool, the car is all packed up and ready to go. Can't wait to see everyone.
Come on by booth #831 and say hi.
Louie ,Ted , Bobby and Randall
have all made lists with booth/table numbers, so go visit so you can see who'll be around.
See you down there.


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Friday, July 20, 2007

Journals and Prints

All right. Getting the last things ready. All my booth mates books have arrived, and now its time to get the last bits together. Check out their blogs for some sneek peeks. Here's a peek of something else I'm bringing along with the books..... I won't have many of these journal/sketchbooks, so drop by soon if you want to grab one of these.....



And prints all packaged up and ready to go......



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Saturday, July 14, 2007

We Blog!

Here's our banner for the San Diego comic Con. We just received it the other day. Scott , Gabriele , Morgan , Jeremy and Jakob and myself will all be hanging around this sign, so look out for this image and drop by and say hello. We're all looking forward to seeing you there.



And here's a handy couple of maps so you get the idea where we are. Come on by to booth 831 and say hello. Also make sure you drop by Ted's blog. He's started to make a list of a whole bunch of artists who'll have tables. Here's where you'll find our "We Blog!" booth....


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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

CRUSH

Very happy to announce that CRUSH, my first book, will make it's debut at the San Diego Comic Con at the end of the month. Can't wait. I'll be sharing a booth with a bunch of talented friends. Listen to this line up....
Gabriele Pennacchioli, Scott Wright, Jakob Jensen, Jeremy Bernstein and Morgan Kelly. Should be a blast.
I'll have prints with me too. We'll all be at booth #831, so if you're there, drop by and say hello. Looking forward to meeting everyone who's been browsing around my blog. I'll also have the book available online a little while after the comic con for those of you who can't make it down or live overseas. So in the tradition of Ronnie and Enrico, the two guys who first made me see that self publishing is within our reach, here's what the books look like....







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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sketches

Phone doodles. Remember these type of sketches I used to post up? I still do them, just haven't posted any lately....




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Friday, June 22, 2007

Lost Something

Spotted at the Norah Jones gig at The Greek last night. Great gig by the way. Yes I'm a sucker for female singers.



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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Studies

Midweek studies...




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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Waiting

While waiting for the ink to dry....



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Monday, June 18, 2007

New Week

Brand new week. Hope you had a good weekend. Still working on variations in ink....



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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Weekend

Hooray, Saturday at last...



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Friday, June 15, 2007

Happy Friday

And a happy Friday to you...


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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Thursday

Variations on a theme in the key of ink...


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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Midweek

Still working the brush and ink. Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying doing these. Best part? No undo.



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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Tuesday

Happy Tuesday.



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Monday, June 11, 2007

More Inks

Starting off the week....



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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Inks

So many things going on....one of them being my time being spent less on the computer and more on real stuff. I'm on a brush an ink rush right now.....



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Monday, May 28, 2007

Agent Jade

Catching up on my spy movies lately. Wish there were more girl spies? This is Agent Jade. She will kick your ass.



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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Ollie Johnston

This weekend I went to the home of one of my heros. A friend of mine from work (thanks Ken) mentioned that in a pennysaver mag, you know the one, one of the junk mails that comes in with the post, had advertised an estate sale by an "Ollie J". From the address he figured out that it was indeed the estate sale of the famed Disney Directing Animator and co-author of "The Illusion of Life", the bible of animation. What an event to find out about. Ollie Johnston has moved up north now with family.

Incredible. I was amazed to walk up the drive to his house and see those small railroad tracks I had heard about, circling through the gardens. I could only imagine the visitors he had throughout the years from the animation circles. I am very happy to have gotten the chance to visit his home.

Inside there was all sorts of artwork (a little original work and of course expensive) and story boards (photo copies, hand coloured) in all shapes of boxes, ready to be browsed through. Also Ollie's library of books and records and various nick-nacks scattered throughout in various rooms.

So what did I pick up? Well, here are some the following bits and pieces....
(all images are copyright of their respective owners and are published here for review only.)

A pic of both Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. I'm sure this has been well seen as it was a publicity pic from Disney.......



Now this next image on sixteen field animation paper is fantastic. It has pinholes in it from being placed on a corkboard and all the wrinkles you'd expect from a used piece of flipped animation paper. I wonder where he had this pinned up. If anyone knows who these people are I would greatly appreciate it. I'll email a few guys I think may know and see if I can get some answers on this. Could that be Marc Davis second from the right? I think that that is Ollie on the left....I'll update later if I get an answer about this.......

*****UPDATE******
Thank you very much DAVID. Wow, that was quick. I knew I'd seen it before and couldn't place my finger on it. The drawing is by Vic Partch, and the people are from left to right.....Ollie Johnston, Ken O'Brien, Vip Partch, and as "The Illusion of Life" says, on page 143, this is "Vip's version of Ollie Johnston's animation unit. When told he had to get an inbetweener to move the work faster, Vip caricatured the only type of personality he felt he could control." Excellent. Thanks so much Dave. Everyone go visit to say thanks. Thanks also to AMID from Cartoon Brew for compiling other accounts of visits to Ollie's house.



Now, I also picked up this book which I never knew existed. It's called "The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin", written by Idries Shah and illustrated by Richard Williams. This predates "The Thief and the Cobbler" and you can definitely see a style which he continued into the film. I was so happy to find this book. Knowing that this was Ollie's, you can bet that this book has found a good home. Here are the front and back slipcased covers.






Here are a couple of illustrations from the inside of the book. Absolutely stunning drawings. I'll be treasuring this unexpected find.






Image of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston copyright Disney
Images of "The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin" copyright Mulla Nasrudin Enterprises Ltd. 1966

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Monday, May 14, 2007

Olive

Busy as hell right now, but here's one to keep things going....


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Sunday, May 06, 2007

Peig

"Peig" was a book that was beaten into us when we were school kids. It was part of the school program from which there was no escape. Harsh rural Ireland from the old days. Poverty, piety, grim tales of life on the west of the country. An elderly woman, Peig Sayers, bent over with age, covered with a black shawl, recounting stories in her life, dictated because of illiteracy to the Irish Folklore Commission. They gathered stories so they wouldn't be lost. Harsh life on the Blasket Islands, off the west coast of my country. This book was the staple for anyone growing up around my age.
Can't say it was fun. And this was the book they were trying to teach the Irish language from and inspire a new generation.
How things have changed. Now everytime I go back, thankfully, I see the language growing again.



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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Coming Soon........

My new book is ready to be released. I'm just going to tease you with this right now as I get things in place so I can make it available to you all. Stay tuned.... it's going to be very soon.......



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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

More Moles

And the sketches continue....



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Sunday, April 15, 2007

First Class

And this girl swished her way past. Must have been in first class.



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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Terminal

Waiting at the terminal....



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