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March 24, 2019
Demo from my Online Course
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February 24, 2019
February 17, 2019
February 10, 2019
January 27, 2019
January 19, 2019
December 29, 2018
It Began Here
My first paintings for DreamWorks and the animated feature The Prince of Egypt were actually quick landscape sketches in Death Valley California. Me and the team hopped on a tour bus and were shuttled out to the desert for several days. I returned to Death Valley to sketch several times thereafter.
Here's the team and some of those sketches:
Here's the team and some of those sketches:
December 24, 2018
December 16, 2018
Painting Columns for The Prince of Egypt, 1996
Some images from The Prince of Egypt this week focusing on painted columns.
The Backgrounds were painted in sections so they cold be reused in other scenes. The columns were difficult to paint and they seemed never ending; if we'd had photoshop back then they would have taken a fraction of the time. But I am glad to have learned the discipline with acrylics, I liked the "all or none" nature of the medium. You had to nail it on the first pass (though you could touch up with some glazing). Each column was masked off with tape and painted wet on wet with no air brushing.
Final frame from the film.
Painted background columns.

Color key painting:

A few more scenes from the movie that use these columns:
And here I and painting, you guessed it, columns!
The Backgrounds were painted in sections so they cold be reused in other scenes. The columns were difficult to paint and they seemed never ending; if we'd had photoshop back then they would have taken a fraction of the time. But I am glad to have learned the discipline with acrylics, I liked the "all or none" nature of the medium. You had to nail it on the first pass (though you could touch up with some glazing). Each column was masked off with tape and painted wet on wet with no air brushing.
Final frame from the film.
Painted background columns.
Color key painting:

A few more scenes from the movie that use these columns:
And here I and painting, you guessed it, columns!
December 14, 2018
November 27, 2018
November 25, 2018
November 15, 2018
November 09, 2018
October 29, 2018
LightBox Expo!
Proud to be a presenter and exhibitor for LightBox Expo 2019! This will the defining event for entertainment arts and illustration next year! lightboxexpo.com
October 24, 2018
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