Some roughs I sent to MGA. Apparently they now want an inteview. Since I have a very active 5 year old daughter and sketch her a lot, these drawings came out naturally. I have several fun sketches of Sienna and her friends that I have done over the last couple of years. My sketch books are chock full off'm.

A quick drawing for a company who asked me to do some designs for solarized lawn ornaments. I just did it tonight.

These will be the covers of the pamphlets that will be put in with the religious dolls. They were built in Illustrator. There are more, but not worth showing. Greg helped me with these, as we fumbled around in Illustrator, screaming at the monitor. Yet we learned a lot. That is the important thing.

Here are some illustrations I did for a toy company. This represents hundreds of drawings submitted since Sept. I also did toys, turnarounds, etc for each character. I am almost ashamed of this work because it is hack work at best. Bad anatomy choices, bad use of perspective, tangents galore, etc. The top of each illustration is left open for type and I was asked to tone down and simplify values. These are tiny illustrations for packaging and will be pitched towards children 4 years and younger. I did not chose the color schemes for the characters. I felt like a ferrari stuck in first gear!

For vince and serge...it has been awhile. Been juggling two big freelance jobs; one which just ended. i have been celebrating by...sleeping. Also been jumping into the difficult and frustrating Illustrator. Here is a Bratz test i am submitting to MGA today.

"One in a million bones become fossilized," I was told at La Brea, "none of the animal species represented here are from one animal. The bones are found in the tar, organized by animal species, then the bones of several animals are pieced together to make one animal. When you see a body, it is made up of about 20 animals put together. It is extremely rare that you will ever find a body completely intact." Sabor tooth cats were about 450 pounds; about the size of the African lion. They were a very stocky cat; pouncers more than chasers and the last of these cats died out 10,000 years ago.

Back to La Brea for a two hour sketch exercise. Was given some names of renown researchers and will contact them in the future. The next steps will be to do some anatomical sculpts, but have large overlappping freelance right now. Will try to post new art when I can. thanks for checking in!

Going from horses to the big Cats. Fun excercises I did in the Bay Area. I decided that I needed to start practising painting big cats for LeoPardine. Small brushworks. These are not finished yet and will probably go to the gallery.

This is a quick fun little acrylic sketch I did while in the Bay Area. Colors: black, white, burnt umber, naples yellow with cerealun blue in the background. tiny, maybe 2x2.

This is a sculpture of a sabortooth cat battling with a snake in Golden Gate Park. It has always been a favorite of mine, as I used to visit there a lot when I was a kid. I wonder if the same sculptor did the sabortooth cats in La Brea..

I walked around the sculpture which is in a dried out fountain between the new De Young Museum and the Steinhart Aquarium (which is empty because of remodeling). I drew different views of it because from almost every angle it is a beautiful and dynamic composition. Evenutally it got so cold, my hands started to ache, but it deserves another visit to do some acrylic studies. I tried acrylic, but it was so cold, it would not dry! And thus came out like mud!

Some more hasty dragon drawings. I am leaving town soon so I am trying to post new art before leaving...The character is Gromlet, a character I actually daydreamed up in an English class way back in highschool.

A quick sketch of a Dragon. Well sort of. This needs to be painted for the gallery...

The model is Nils Vidstand, one of my favorite models of all time. He was one of the first models who invited me to come up and check out his weapons and props, to feel an old gun that he made and explained to me the history of cowboys; why they wore what they did, how they lived. He could act as well as pose and had great presence in his modeling. He looked like he had just walked right out of the Old West and into the studio.

These were done before I left Disney in Bob Kato's class during lunch hour. I need to redraw the left model; I love her Art Deco pose.

The right one is after I gave birth to my daughter and was so out of it; (it would take three years before I got my drawing sensibility back; I think it was the unbalanced hormones and total lack of sleep). It literally felt like I had never held a pencil in my life and when I sat down and observed the model was afraid to make the first stroke. But oddly enough, I nailed it. Even tho, I was not lucid or "myself" I still had the ability to draw just out of the practice of drawing for so many years. Because this drawing re-affirmed that I still "had it" it remains one of my favorite drawings.

Little Brushworks
Greg framed the Lepardine miniature and another small foal painting. The Lepardine painting was not a great work of art, but it sure looked smart after Greg put it in a black frame. They all go to New Mexico in a few days for the x-mas rush.

I am crushed with freelance right now, but will try to post new stuff...

Constructions lines for a new painting. These are small; 4"x4". I may leave the top painting of LeoPardine almost as is since I like the brush strokes. She may have the look of native american.

15 minutes later...it is too bad you cannot see all the fun little nuances of the flesh tones. Again, this is the same pallette I used for the yellow horse!

A small work in progress: While I had laid out this nice pallette of browns, I quickly sketched this one out in minutes.

A close up to see the brush strokes. I love the way the strokes came out on the left eye. This painting is the same size as the red brown horse; 7"x 5".

colors were: raw umber, some burnt umber, sienna, red oxide, a touch of cadmium orange medium, a touch of black, titanium white, naples yellow and chromium oxide green. I threw in variations of green on the left side of the face, but the base brown was raw umber, a yellow brown.