Santa Ynez Valley

This is one of my favorite places in Cali...

Wine Country! This was overlooking the vineyards

at Firestone. Gouache on illustration board.

photoshop beach demo

My Mother-in-law is visiting with us this

week and loves to paint seascapes in oil.

She was curious about how painting works

in photoshop so I did this painting for her

yesterday as a quick demo. I did'nt have any

reference for this other that the memories I

have of the Oregon coast.

More Monsters stuff

Some more early stuff from Monsters

of the creatures in their holding cells.

Monsters VS Aliens Early Concept Work

Some really early work I did on Monsters when it was
called "Creature Feature" a few years back.
I only worked on it for a couple of months before
I went to co-Art Direct on Bee Movie.
Some characters designed by Patrick Mate,

mothership design by Kevin Conran
and alien robot by David James

Moving to Gig Harbor WA!

We are moving to beautiful Gig Harbor

next weekend! For those who don't know Gig Harbor,

it is a small forest community out on the Puget Sound

in the Olympic Peninsula just across from Seattle... lots

of rain, trees, ocean, lakes, mountains, bald eagle and LANDSCAPE

PAINTING!! I plan to break out the old easel and oil paints so I can

start painting large again. I will also be set up to work from

home as a remote artist for Dreamworks. These are some

photos I took of our house and the surrounding areas

of Gig Harbor.

Solo Show

January 3rd 2009 will be my first

solo show! I will be exhibiting my charcoal

dog drawings as well as most of my gouache

landscapes. I will have a couple of small oil

studies too. My work will be on exibit at Nucleus gallery

in Alhambra run by Ben Zhu. Ben used to be a student

of mine at Art Center and is now a very successful

gallery curator. Thanks Ben!

New Paintings

It's about time! I have been

painting but not posting... so here is a whole stack

of recent works.