Yep! I carved out some time and got out this weekend to paint...
I spent the weekend with my wife and her family up in beautiful Newport, RI.
Great times, and beautiful weather.
As usual, I could use another hour or two on the color study, but time doesn't always permit...
The light was great, as well as the architecture. The quaint little building was built in 1771 (!), and a member of my wife's family lived in it for a spell (this century, though!)
(I took the pict with my iphone, because it was too wet to travel)

I was reminiscing about my tenure in the TV animation world in NYC, and I wanted to post this for posterity sake. I miss these guys...We were shooting for an aesthetic somewhere between the '69 World's Fair and scientific illustrations from the 50's and 60's.
They are on their fourth season of the show, and more to come from what I hear.
I drew the Venture Compound for the pilot episode of Venture Brothers back when I was at Noodlesoup. (They are called World Leaders now! Check them out here!)

http://www.wleaders.com/

Venture Brothers is led by Jackson Publick and co-written by his co-conspirator Doc Hammer. They keep one-upping themselves every new season. Brilliant...'nuff said.

Wow. It's been a while, blog...I missed ya...
As my friends can attest, it's been a busy couple of weeks!
(I got married to the love of my life, folks!)
I'm back with a sketch, and busy working on personal projects.
I finished up my tenure on Ice Age 3!!! It will hit theaters in JULY

Hoping to post more soon...

Leave it to the Totoro Auction to bring together more artists from around the globe.
Tonight I had dinner and hung out with the brilliant Oren Haskins, who was in town for a few weeks.
Twice as nice of a guy as he is an artist, which is saying alot! He popped by Blue Sky, and then we all headed into the city to Patsy's pizza to grab a bite. Mike Knapp, Willie Real, and Petey Ngyuen were in attendance.

Great times and some fun sketching afterwards at a coffeeshop...

Since the book is out, I thought it would be good to post a little something.
Some of my old friends hadn't heard of our book project, so here is a little sampling from my story...
I had put up sketches in earlier posts, but this is one of the finishes...
N'joy

I'm back one week from the almighty TOTORO FOREST AUCTION, and it was unbelievable.
I will devote a blog entry just to it.
In the meantime, I dashed this one off on the way home from midtown tonight...

I haven't gone out and painted in quite a while, so I'm throwing this up as a challenge to myself.
(Don't worry, I see the absurdity of this) I need to hit the paints, not the excuses.
Its a sketch of the boat pond on the east side of Central Park on a crisp fall morning...