Showing posts with label animated cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animated cartoons. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2015
Limited edition 'Stable Vices' print
Anyone love naughty My Little Ponies? Because I have just one - only one
- of these limited edition giclee prints left from a special print
request I did. It could be yours - I'll allow it.
Thursday, July 09, 2015
refrence sculptures - Gift of Folly
I was tidying up my studio and came across these sculptures I made while I was working on the painting 'Gift of Folly'. Making small sculptures to assist in the drawing process has become common practice for me now.
The
anvil was so I could draw anvils in multiple angles.
The bulldog character is a reference to the antagonist from
the Tex Avery directed cartoon Bad Luck Blackie* - ONE OF THE GREATEST cartoons ever made!
*Just to clarify the title, it is a not a racial cartoon. The
title refers to the main character, a black cat, who defends a kitten by bringing bad luck to the
bulldog character by crossing his path and causing objects - including an anvil
- to fall on him from the sky.
Monday, June 01, 2015
Gift of Folly - complete!
THANK YOU to all who attended ART Happening Artistique's event Saturday, May 30th. Here is the final complete new painting in the show called 'Gift of Folly'.
The painting was inspired by the mystery and mythology of the use of anvils in cartoons. If not for cartoons, I greatly suspect I would have no idea what an anvil was. (Or, I would have discovered it far, far, later.) The idea for the painting sprang when I tried to place the reason why anvils became the go-to device of villainous foil.
Turns out, nobody seems to know the answer for certain. However, I did come across this article 'Watch Out For Falling Anvils' written by Cal Meacham, who did some animation history research of his own and suggests the the use of anvils in cartoons could be inspired by 'anvil launching', which I previously never heard of. I recommend reading the article for more info. (Cal, if you are reading this, THANK YOU for writing this article - I tried searching for your contact online to thank you personally, but was unsuccessful.)
The painting above is currently still available. Please E-mail me if you're interested.
The painting was inspired by the mystery and mythology of the use of anvils in cartoons. If not for cartoons, I greatly suspect I would have no idea what an anvil was. (Or, I would have discovered it far, far, later.) The idea for the painting sprang when I tried to place the reason why anvils became the go-to device of villainous foil.
Turns out, nobody seems to know the answer for certain. However, I did come across this article 'Watch Out For Falling Anvils' written by Cal Meacham, who did some animation history research of his own and suggests the the use of anvils in cartoons could be inspired by 'anvil launching', which I previously never heard of. I recommend reading the article for more info. (Cal, if you are reading this, THANK YOU for writing this article - I tried searching for your contact online to thank you personally, but was unsuccessful.)
The painting above is currently still available. Please E-mail me if you're interested.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)