. . . Happy Holidays!! Best wishes to all of you. This is something I painted for "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron". Copyright ...

. . . . . . . . . Some photoshop production work this week. After creating several traditionally animated films at the DreamWorks Glendale ...

. . Mark Snyder. Compressed charcoal on rives lightweight paper. We've been drawing Mark in head drawing class. As you can see, he has ...

. . These are a few of many "color keys" I did for Shrek the Halls. Their purpose is to establish the mood and lighting of each lo...

. . Happy Thanksgiving from me and the "Shrek the Halls" crew. Shrek the Halls is a half hour TV special about Shrek's first ...

. . . . Mark, demonstration with charcoal. A note about the process here. I show these elaborate line drawings that end up getting complet...

. . I've just started teaching my head drawing class so here's a new charcoal drawing for this week. I'll also be posting a few...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

. This is something I did for my head painting class way back when I was studying at Art Center in Pasadena. I remember this one fondly beca...

. . This is a place I visited last Christmas, north of the Great Salt Lake. As always, more travel sketches can be seen at the land sketch ...

. . Nightscape . .

. . . . Another watercolor demo for my sketching class to reference. This one doesn't use any gouache, just some masking fluid to prote...

. . This is my demo from this weeks class. Posted as a reference for the students but I hope the rest of you like it too. .

. . Susan, watercolor sketch. . .

Upcoming classes and workshops

. If you're in the LA area and would like to join me for a class or workshop, we have three events coming up. My next 10 week cours...

. . . Fun with gouache. . . .

. . Adrienne. Watercolor on arches cold pressed paper. . .

. . . . Stag beetle .

. . . . . Plaster cast. Watercolor on arches cold press paper. .

. . Warthan Canyon tree on highway 198 in central California. Watercolor.

. . . . My time at PDI/Dreamworks in Redwood City has come to a close. It's back to LA for my wife and I. We loved the area and the stud...

. . . I continue to sketch the waterfowl here in the bay area. I'll post more of those later. This one was done in the studio. . . .

. Here's another acrylic painting from a life drawing session. This was done during the same time and circumstances mentioned in the the...

. Wanda. Acrylic on cold press illustration board. This image is from what feels like a lifetime ago; a life drawing session while we were w...

. . Some friends let me stay in their beautiful home on a painting trip to Hawaii. I did this gouache painting of the place for them as a th...

. Here's another sketch of the iguana at the LA Zoo. . .

. . . . . Iguana. The sketch was painted at the LA Zoo and the finish was done from photos. For another view of this guy scroll down to the ...

. . Lara

. . . . . . These 3" x 4" sketches are from a recent weekend trip on Highway One North of San Francisco. This particular stretch ...

. . Brandt. This is oil on canvas.

. . . . . I recently moved to Redwood Shores in the Bay Area and have been amazed at the abundance of waterfowl here. This weekend I got ou...

. Redwood City street corner . . . . .

. . Jenny .

. . Sketches at the Natural History Museum. .

. . Neighborhood flowers. I've included some pictures to show the painting process. This is watercolor on hot press illustration board...