Happy Birthday Dude!

Today is the "Dude's" 1st birthday.
Happy Birthday Dude!

Bernie Fuch (1932-2009)

I just got word that one of my greatest heroes of illustrations, Bernie Fuchs, has died.
He was arguably one of the most influential illustrators of the second half of the 20th century and I certainly would not be the painter that I am today without spending tireless hours studying and trying to replicate his paintings as a student (and then beyond).
He was a great inspiration to me and always will be.

Thanks Bernie.

Do yourself a favor and just click the image above, then stare at it for a while.

9

My wife and I had the opportunity to see the premier of this fantastic movie "9". It's an animated feature that happened to be one of the best movies I've seen in A LONG TIME.

If you are reading this, go see this movie in the theater... Then you'll buy it on DVD and never lend it to anyone for fear of never getting it back.

Here's a detail of a painting inspired by the movie:

Go see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoJecu9e7c

note: No burlap was harmed in the publishing of this blog post. Slight fraying, but no harm.

Cover ...back to the drawing board.

So here is the cover of my long awaited book Always Listen to Your Mother... sort of.
Disney decided they'd like me to take the cover in a different direction. So, I'm back to the drawing board. This book is going to be released around Halloween next year so I think I'm going to focus on the neighborhood ghoul, Vlapid for the next round of cover drawings.
I don't mind so much, I just want the book to do well... plus, it's not like Disney doesn't know what they're talking about.

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be posting this but since they're not using the image, what the heck.