Happy Sleepyville: elephant

Chalk Travels

This image just about sums it up.

I've been Touched by a Monkey and I like it!

Link to Review

Cloudfisher Story.

This is my lost Fisherman that find his way home to his family by fishing the sky.

Frogs...

So, here's a painting I'm not happy with but I'm certainly done fiddling with it at the moment.

There's some history here. I grew up in the "country" and frogs were a sort of form of "entertainment", lets just call it that, I'll post the sketch and dialogue from my sketchbook this painting came from soon.

Always Listen to Your Mother

Last week I received a couple advanced copies of the finished version of a children's book I illustrated titled, "Always Listen to Your Mother" by the amazing mother daughter duo Florence Perry Heide & Roxanne Heide Pierce. The team at Disney Hyperion did a fantastic job designing and laying out this book. I'm quite pleased with the results!
The release date is August 3rd at which time you'll find it in all your major book stores, or hell, check it out on Amazon!

For better or worse, another book Idea...

The age old caper where the rooster sees something he shouldn't have, and is now being framed.

Cloud Watcher... My wife had a much better name, but I can't remember it at the moment.

Lately I've been fascinated with clouds. I get these kernels of ideas for stories, like snapshots. This image was created to try to better understand one of those kernels. Its a story about a older man (misunderstood possible?) in a small town, and he's able to look at the clouds and tell stories of some sort. In my mind, it's the children of the town that flock to him to hear these tales, predictions, whatever they may end up.
Therein stands MY challenge.... How to make the kernel a story.

Frog King - work in prog

Hillary's Hippo

Natalie A.M.

Natalie P.M.

Milton Glaser on drawing, while drawing

MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.

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.

Work in progress

Learning through applied desperation.

more on that later...

Another Dicey night...

This one is close to being done. I'd like to say that about the other 12, but no worries I'm running out of time so you wont have to read my "Dicey" titles much longer...