Hawaiian Painting #1

This piece was a blast to do. It's-a for the Y Not Art Blog (as everything is these days). I'm hoping to do some more of these!

My Father is a Triceratops....

My favorite artist right now is probably none other than the great Anthony Holden (that "probably" really took the umph out of that glowing intro...). While I don't claim to possess one iota of the talent that Anthony does (I don't even claim to know what an iota is...), I do love his style, and tried to emulate it with this piece.
(This also doubles as a piece for the Y Not Art Blog! Two stones with one bird!)

Environmentality

I haven't ever really done this layout/conceptualizing/environment stuff. But I toyed around and this is what I came up with. It was kinda fun, in a frustrating way (or was it kinda frustrating, in a fun way?).
Another piece for the Y Not Art Blog.

Me at 15

This is me 10 years ago. It was hairdos like this that made God decide to revoke my folicle privileges. Another piece for the Y Not Art Blog.

Baby Came!!!!!

Our baby girl arrived last night! She's soooo beautiful (where'd she get the hair?)! She and mom are doing great!

Disney's Low Point

Our topic for the Y Not Art Blog was "Disney's Low Point", and I have to say that all those direct-to-video sequels were not quite their finest hour. So I just whipped out a few from the collection and snapped a photo (click for a larger image).


My question for you is this: did you actually enjoy any of the Disney sequels? What's your favorite?

I remember when "Return of Jafar" first came out... and I was so excited, but once I watched it, I was scratching my 10-year-old head wondering "why wasn't that as good as the first one? It looked kind of.... cheap..." I then came to fully adore "Aladdin and the King of Thieves," mostly because Robin Williams resumed his role as Genie.... but I haven't seen it since I was wee....

Other than that.... can't say I've enjoyed too many of them...

Learning Flash

This is a test from my first run through of character animation in Adobe Flash. It's an incredibly intimidating program, but now that I'm learning it (a tiny tiny bit), it's been a blast.


I'm hoping to turn this into a minute-or-so-long "commercial". (there will be more than walking involved. Promise!)

UP!!!

We saw Pixar's latest, Up, today. It was amazing! I absolutely loved it, from start to finish. For me, it's right up there in my favorite films of all-time (along with Ratatouille and Toy Story). I highly recommend it!

Oh, one last thing. We saw it in 3D, which wasn't too bad. I think the whole 3D thing in general is still a wee bit gimmicky, but these guys did a good job not beating the audience over the head with it.

Oh, and the 3D glasses made everyone look like they dressed up like Carl Fredricksen for the movie.

Nicely done, Pete Docter and Pixar!

Friday Open Drawing

So I learned two things about myself today during the Open Drawing Session.... 1) I draw a million times better when I'm relaxed (duh!), and 2) I am a million times more relaxed during drawing sessions when I listen to music and don't worry about the people around me. So I tried applying these two epiphanies today, and I must say they worked! My drawings may not be the best in the world, but I actually came out of there happy with my work instead of frustrated!

Here's what I got (some didn't photograph so well-- sorry):

Baby Time!

Mary's gonna be induced in about two weeks.... and life will be turned upside down (and backwards). We're excited!



Another piece for the Y Not Art Blog.