My dad created a slideshow of my artwork

 

I received an email from my dad with this video of my artwork.

I think its Great! I love surprises   

"A Whale of a Tale" part 2

 

 

This is the finished piece

"A Whale of a Tale"

that was inspired by two twitter threads

click here.

I think it took me from concept to finish about two or three weeks  and I was working on a couple of other illustrations at the same time while one dried I would work on a different one. I will post the other two illustration after the 2014 Tomie dePaola Awards is finished.   

 

size: 9 X 24 watercolor, pen & ink and finished in Photoshop 

Happy Easter

 

Happy Easter 

"A Whale of a Tale"



as seen in sketch book



I was inspired by two Twitter tweets.

something about a red bear and another of a book cover design for Moby-Dick.

Go figure inspiration from Twitter, well you never know where or how its going to find you.

 

early ink sketch

I did a handful of sketches and liked this one

 

I decided I wanted it to be longer than 8.5X 11 so Moby got its own page

 

Along the way I added a dog 

 

pencil drawing with watercolor

I have been working a little differently instead of going straight to ink, then adding watercolor, I've been doing a pencil drawing on watercolor paper with washes of watercolor and adding ink in the end; it takes longer this way but the results are

FUN! 

 

pen and ink with watercolor

Almost done I need to scan them fit it together and finish it in Photoshop

(don't you love that whale?)  

Michael Sporn a Celebration

On January 19th 2014 I received of phone call "Michael past away this morning"
On March 31st 2014 We celebrated his life.

 A celebration of a man that I loved who was a great Artist, Director, and Friend.
It was a night filled with speakers, clips, and a chance to see two animated shorts "Doctor De Soto" and "The Hunting of the Snark".
His wife Heidi did a great job capturing this mans life.

Ray Kosarin spoke of the time working in the studio and that brought back some good memories. It was also great to see old friends/colleagues/family, big hugs all around. It had been a few years since I seen some of them; but it was just like yesterday side by side working together. 





I miss you Mr. Sporn R.I.P.