Painting from life

Study from life

San Juan Capistrano around 2000. CAC paint out

1994. Baby Lairs sleeping. Painted while we were staying in Paris, FR on Runaway









El Matador

Studies trying to use more of a Fragonard palette for Rapunzel (Disney 2010)












This is actually a study trying to use more of a Fragonard palette for Rapunzel (Disney 2010)



More studies for Rapunzel. Palette used is Y Ochre, Aliz Crimson, Ivory Black and White


Quickie painting of Emilie MacDonald.


Quickie painting of Emilie MacDonald.



1995ish. Painted at BMAI

Christopher Aponte from a Mark Daily class at Disney.



This was the initial painting of Laura Sellers reading.
I don't know if this ever saw the light of day in a gallery (Gallery owner bought it before it was ever exhibited)

Final painting of Laura reading (No. Neither of these were painted from life. Ha!!)















More studies done for the Rapunzel palette


More studies done for the Rapunzel palette







Painted in Ralph Oberg's workshop 1999-2000-ish


Arizona. Outside of Phoenix (Ray Roberts workshop 1999-ish)



Arizona. Outside of Phoenix (Ray Roberts workshop 1999-ish)

Bad Attitude. Self Portrait-limited palette




Study from Mark Daily's class at SAS around late 90's





More studies in the Fragonard palette. In this study is the worst drawing of a flower...ever.

Clark Allen....RIP







More studies on my own from the Fragonard palette (for Tangled). Or something like that...



Goat butt. Painted from life. Late 1990's?


More studies on my own from the Fragonard palette (for Tangled).

Kevyn Wallace. A true gem of a human being who left us way to soon. I thought I didn't have this painting anymore--but I was wrong. Painted alongside the brilliant Sunny Apinchapong in his studio. RIP, brother Kevyn.





Scottsdale Artist School Open Studio. I took Ray Roberts and Mark Daily back to back (this was around 1999-2000-ish). Mark is still one of my all time favorite painters. Too smart for his own good.

A couple of self portraits (I try to paint the night before my class). 

This is the only guy stupid enough to pose for me.

Tangled Lighting Keys

Key for an aborted scene that was to done in production by our brilliant matte painter, Jang Lee as a  P-Map.
.......Which I think means a projection on primitive geometry...and stuff.
This is painted over a great development drawing by Kevin Nelson

   

                                   

            Various lighting keys for Tangled.  All of these started off as paintings over a CG render at various stages of lighting. What you see here are paintings that we would do to inform our lighting artists what we needed more of  (staging, lighting direction, color.)   IN ALL CASES,  our lighters exceeded and made better images than what we initially conceived.  There's a lot going on underneath these touch ups. We have characters posed by the animators, tweaked by Glen Keane...then these would have rough lighting done by one of our sequence lighting leads--Alessandro Jacomini, Rich Lehman, Josh Staub, Chris Springfield, Bobby Miles, Ernie Petti, and Brian Leach....Dave Goetz, Mohit Kallianpur, and I would then under the direction of the lighting leads take a shot at the key...show the directors (Dave's would go well and mine would crash and burn) and we would re-show until the key had the mood the directors were going for. See? It's simple (har-har). This is just a few keys from my batch...but a lot of work from a lot of people is what you truly see.