Settling in Columbus

Well, settling here, back in Ohio, has been a tad bumpy.  Had a studio space, don't have a studio space, have work, have too much work, have other stuff to do.  Would love to get to some of the projects on the docket, hope I will be able to get to something fun soon.

This is always the balance between making money and making progress, they do not always coincide.

Finding Art in the oddest places

Looking through the archives for website art...some I have used before and others...

Background for a project in house. About 90% complete.

Still have to extend to accommodate a pan and make some tweaks.  Heavy influence from Maurice Noble

Character Sketch in Illustrator

Birches, finished

Love the work for Pascal Campion, and being a chameleon artist, I can learn a lot from emulating another.  Here is "Birches" commissioned by my darling wife for above the fireplace.

Couple of Coffee House guys

And another

Working on a image for Jimmy

My good friend Jimmy May (musician extraordinaire) asked me to Photoshop up a CD cover for his band.  Here is an initial comp.  We were going to include the other band members into the distance but decided to create images for each.  Updates to follow.

In Savannah

I have arrived and settled in to Savannah.  Today is the first day of classes, should be interesting and I look forward to creating my artwork again.  It has been a long time since I have had the time to sit down and do a whole bunch of stuff.  Feel like I am breathing again.

A tad more but still unfinished.

Two paintings (incomplete)

Art takes a long walk off my short pier.

It is a remarkable moment in my life.  I have seen traditional 2d animation change into a form I hardly recognize.  It is no longer a film, cell, paint, and pencil that produces it, it is now designated to a tablet, computer and program.  The art form that I had become so in love was no longer, dead, swept away by a wave of technology.  I now am on several paths, still animating, but also studying feverishly for my Masters Degree in Painting.

What I have found is that while I was busy creating funny drawings in motion, inking, painting and filming the cells on a down shooter, the art world has changed enormously.  I have been studying History, Theory, Process, Concept, and  Critical thought and am about to take my overfilled brain and finally begin to paint in earnest again after 30 some years.  YIKES.

More from Alex the Bear

Now winner of
***Winner of 3 bronze Telly Awards (Children's Audience, Sound Design, Not-For-Profit)

Along with the Addy!  Raking in the awards.  HA!

Just informed-Addy winner

I have been doing a lot of freelance in and around the Boston.   I directed "Alex the Bear" for Soup2Nuts Productions here in beautiful downtown Watertown and we won an ADDY for "Alex the Bear".  It has been a long time since I last received or been a part of an award.  WOOHOO.  (I think the last time was when I was honored as best animation from Women in Communications (I think they thought "Gavrilo" was a woman's name.)  Working with Soup was a great pleasure.  Dave Trexler is an excellent producer, Joe Boyle an excellent animator and Jody Snyder, head of new business is tops in my book.  Great place, give them more work world and maybe I can work there again and win more stuff.

Mad Cow Illustration

Another grad school gig.

Coming up for air

After landing in Boston, I immediately jumped into a life of 2 jobs and Graduate school.  I am looking forward to getting back to my world, and my stuff.  This blog has been more of a blob lately.  I have to stop working on stuff I can' t post.  Non-disclosure stuff.  Sheesh

Niki's nurse

My daughter wanted a drawing of a nurse for her nursing buddies. Here it is.

Another Profile Pic for the Big

Another Facebook portrait for the Rock.

Change of Pace

Well, I am winding down the whole painting thing, although I will still tweak a few that are close to completion and I have to start an Elvgren copy for my daughter. She's just got to have one (a great endorsement of my art, wait, I mean Gil Elvgren's art. Oh well, so much for impressing my daughter with what I personally do.) At any rate, I do have some web stuff to design and that includes a replacing a couple of "construction" pages on my website. I will be posting some new images over the weekend. Cartoony and fun, hopefully.

So What's on the Agenda.

I should be finishing up my painting portfolio (for Grad School) this week. Many of the paintings remain "Works in Progress", but I have to move on to other things. Most of the endeavors up ahead are victim of the artistically postponed from the end of last year before the painting like a madman tour began. I have some web projects on tap both professional and personal including getting another page or two up on the Horrendous Fiasco Website, including an expanded Gallery Page (Sketches, Design, Paintings, Flash, and Animation Stills) and the Hula girl home page animation. I will continue painting periodically until the 15 canvas goal for 2010 is complete. 7 complete, 8 to go. But now It's Super Bowl time.