Dog Walker

Ollie Johnston 1912-2008

I just read the news- Ollie Johnston died today at age 95.

The news is still coming out, so I'll be checking these sites out more later-

Frank and Ollie, AWN, Cartoon Brew, Blackwing Diaries

Here's a great video of Glen Keane talking about Ollie's animation.

Also, check out Ollie in the Disney Family Album here.

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here's a FANTASTIC tribute to Ollie by Brad Bird

Ollie and his trains

Bob Clampett and Ollie Johnston photo

Batman wanna be

New Portfolio Blog!

Sarah and I have put together portfolio blogs. We really like having sketch blogs for random artwork, but we thought it would be nice to have one spot with a portfolio. You can check them out here- Sarah's Portfolio (still being updated) and Catherine's Portfolio.

Wonder Woman

Bouncing Baby Boy!

My cousin had a baby boy last week, so here's a quick pic I did for her with the sketches below.

Tina Fey!!

This is not an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, but I love this clip. Tina Fey is GREAT!!! The end is my favorite part!

girl sketches

Little Red Riding Hood

Here's a little quickie.

Cat Sketch

I didn't have time to draw this weekend, but I did manage to sketch this when I was half awake the other night.

Figure Drawing Blues

Once a week, on Monday nights, a small group of us have been meeting for a figure drawing club during the school year. When it started out, it had some good turnouts. A few nights, the room was filled. It was a great time to see other artists, old schoolmates, and working professionals. This type of turnout was short lived. After a while, people's schedules interfered, and they stopped showing up. That's life. Today, a bunch of us found out that the club has been cancelled due to a lack of interest. This is such sad news. The past two weeks we've looked around the room (only about 4 of us there!) and were amazed that there were no students showing up. It has just been alumni taking advantage of free figure drawing. It makes me wonder if students are just too busy (I'm sure a lot of them are) or do many of them not understand the importance of figure drawing? Sadly, I believe this is the case with many of them. When my sister and I went through the animation program at school, we were shocked at the lack of drawing skills or even care about the fine arts that students had. Many weren't even familiar with art materials that we used in our work. I'm not sure if this is a recent attitude or not. With so much work being done on computers now, do students feel the need to learn the basics such as painting, sculpture, and drawing?