BEEN a Long, Bin a Long time, Binaa Long, lonely....

So far behind on blogging! LOTSa Live stuff to get to....

But first heres some pix from the very 1st KIDS BOOK I was the sole artist for. (I contributed to other kids books but never had the whole thing before. I did all the illustrations for this issue "Outnumbered" of the "Bad Cats" series. Lotsa fun with it. Pretty creative author, Brad Skafish has really cool, humorous poetic writing style.

It was an interesting mix of conforming to the existing character restrictions and adding my own flavor as well.

I'd definitely have done some cat things different if it were my way-had LOTS a fun with the dogs though!

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Came across this piece I did while in art school....lo some 20 or so years ago...ouch!
It's for the story "The Old Man & the Sea"-great movie with Spencer Tracey....
I remember the reason I picked this scene was just about every other artist in class was going with the literal and obvious subjects of the marlin and boat and sea and I was tired of doing that for other projects so I wanted to go in a direction that was more personal to the story and really only accurately interpretable by those who actually read the book (or saw the movie)-not just the title.

It's still one of my favorite pieces I ever did and I miss the discipline of art school to pull me out of my "Cartoondom Safe Haven" at least once in a while...Thanks for the assignment, Kim!

Kids book illustrations- MAYBE?

Quick character designs and concept sketches for potential project-either way I really like the cigar bunnies....