Saturday, December 19, 2009

Nutty Nutcracker


Be sure to download this paper window display on Chronicle's Nutty Nutcracker page. It makes a fun holiday project for mailing! Look for the pdf download from here:

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,8237/

Friday, December 04, 2009

Dr Jones' Wild Ride























This is a piece for the online auction for charity-- Hey You Guys! Check it out, bid, and if you're in the LA area, attend the Ghostbusters screening at the Rialto in South Pasadena this coming Saturday, Dec. 5!

http://www.heyyouguyscharity.com/

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Whenever I see your smiling face...


The first draft of this image had the wooden cuckoo sweetly in love with the moon on a neighboring clock's dial. In his downtime, and there must be plenty of it, he lyrically wrote love poems. But if he's truly cuckoo, and with a vast knowledge ticking devices' interiors, building bombs seemed so much more interesting. I may change it yet again.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Drosselmeyer exploration


A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas will be released soon, so I thought I'd show a couple of character sketches prepared for this version's equivalent to the kindly, grandfatherly Drosselmeyer. I *might* have been thinking of Wallace Shawn with that fellow in the upper left.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Castaway Cutout


Chronicle Books is offering a free download of some paper cutouts I painted to help promote the pop up book, The Castaway Pirates. Check it out:

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7151/title,The-Castaway-Pirates/

(copy and paste url...blogger takes issues with my links)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009