2nd Place!!!

"Time & Chance" took Silver at the Gorilla Tango.TV Summer Film Competition!

Thank you to all you loyal viewers!!

Logo Portrait

Both of my kids are in the high school marching band. One of their field commanders has a particular look I wanted to capture. Her black & white uniform and red hair make a great color scheme, so I came home to draw it up in Photoshop.

Just a Little Fun

I took my drawing from the envelope and had a little fun with it...

Goin' Postal

The top drawing is of my parents' Shih-Tzu, Riley. The bottom is just my mind wandering on the back on an envelope. I drew Riley on some cardboard that I put in the envelope to protect its contents better.

I like to decorate envelopes, but I don't do it enough. Folks really appreciate it.
My friend Eric Thomas used to address his envelopes on the back so that he would have a seamless surface on which to draw. I kinda like the obstacle.

Somehow , I tend to draw better on paper that I know isn't likely to be kept. Maybe it's the lack of pressure to create "art". Whenever I spent much on nice watercolor paper, I would always freeze and get stiff, afraid I would disappoint the purpose of the paper. There's less risk with scrap paper. So what if you mess up, no harm in throwing it away, right? That's why I love the freedom of drawing on napkins, table cloths, envelopes & church bulletins.

Frederick Remington used to illustrate his correspondence, too. There are many of his envelopes on display at the Gene Autrey Museum in L.A.; beautiful little pen & ink drawings of cowboys and horses, sometimes w/ watercolor, too.
I doubt my envelopes will ever hang in a museum. But at least they'll be on my mom's fridge!

(Both drawings were done with Brush Pens and Prismacolor Pencil.)

Oldie, but Goodie

I recently had a couple of old personal VHS tapes transferred to digital. This was one of the treasures I found. It's from the 1999 research trip I took to Alaska for "Brother Bear". I went with director Aaron Blaise, producer Chuck Williams, and animator/story artist Broose Johnson. There were other trips taken that I didn't go on, but this was the first. Man! What a trip!

We watched bears feast on salmon at McNeil River, landed a ski plane on Mt. Denali (McKinley) as high as we could go without oxygen, and ate a tasty BBQ pork sammich in Talkeetna. I even lost my wallet while camping and had to get a temporary Alaska ID to board the plane in King Salmon back to Anchorage.Yeah, that's me after two weeks of not trimming my beard.