Archive for April, 2007

Sketches from the River Run Film festival and Beyond!

Posted in daily sketch, student on April 24th, 2007 by lanimate
Ty B. Bear is just floating away during the River Run Festival
Ty B. Bear is just floating away during the River Run Festival

This past week was another “burner”. We drove up to Winston-Salem, NC. for the River Run International Film Festival and our son Matt was performing as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at NCSA. Both events were amazing!

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River Run Festival was VERY, VERY well programmed. It opened Wednesday night with Paris, Je T’Ame a wonderful film with 18 vignettes from the different sections of the “City of Lights”. The actors were wonderful! Animation Director Sylvain Chomet even did one of the live-action vignettes about how 2 mimes meet.

There were documentaries, shorts, animated shorts and some morning talks at local venues and cafes with a focus on animation. OUT OF OUR MINDS ANIMATION STUDIO hosted many of the programs. Folks from PIXAR were there to participate in a panel discussion and to host their own event. Other animators from R & H, Blue Sky also participated.

This time I attended as a civilian animator- that gave me time before, during and after the events to draw.

Here are a few sketches….

Here is a view out of the window from a new coffeehouse on Tybee Island

Here is a view out of the window from a new coffeehouse on Tybee Island
This is a composite sketch over a 1/2 hour stretch of time. These people in line, just came and went. The fellow is the ball cap is drawn twice
This is a composite sketch over a 1/2 hour stretch of time. These people in line, just came and went. The fellow is the ball cap is drawn twice
Here are some folks from Performance Place on the NCSA campus
Here are some folks from Performance Place on the NCSA campus

In the the case of the rather “plump” security guard- I couldn’t stand there and draw - as an artist. I was attracted by the line from his spine down and around to his bum - that was my starting point (once I sat down in inside the theater).

The last location on this drawing is inside Leapold’s Ice Cream Parlor. Stratton Leopold’s father and brothers had a store 40 or 50 years ago and about three years ago Strattan and his wife Mary recreated the store. Strattan is a film producer, SUM of ALL FEARS, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 to name just a couple. Anyhow… that’s where the movieola came from…

STILL ANIMATED!!!

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OFF TO THE FESTIVAL

Posted in daily sketch, animation stories, student on April 12th, 2007 by lanimate

HEY!

This Saturday, I am off to Statesboro, GA. to the Art Fest (its 25th year). I am borrowing a shelter and some other stuff and I am taking my wares on the road. I call my work The Wandering Artist Salon (WAS) because most of it is done plein air (without a net). I really enjoy drawing and painting on location.
What makes me enthusiastic about this Festival is that this is the first time I am taking my oil paintings

Here is an oil painitng - still drying- the first I began in my class and the last finished
Here is an oil painitng - still drying- the first I began in my class and the last finished
This is Fisher and Friend at Sunrise, another oil
This is Fisher and Friend at Sunrise, another oil

I will have my normal inventory of cards, prints and watercolors. If you are in the area stop by- it is on the campus of Georgia Southern University - again, in Statesboro on Sweethearts Circle. There will be about 35 other artists with demonstrations (10:00 am - 7:00 pm) BBQ and musicians on two stages with entertainment all day -and a concert beginning at 7:00 pm…did I mention BBQ?

This the final of the plein air painting I did with Glenn Vilppu
This the final of the plein air painting I did with Glenn Vilppu
This my favorite painting- I used complimentary underpaints for almost everything
This my favorite painting- I used complimentary underpaints for almost everything

As mentioned in the caption. This painting I experimented with complimentary colors for almost every area of the underpaint. I used a burnt orange for the water, a red for the trees and a blue for the sand. You should have seen the looks I got from folks walking along the beach. I think they thought I was color blind.

I call this one BBQ at alley #3, it ls an oil, plein air
I call this one BBQ at alley #3, it ls an oil, plein air

Yes, this is another plein air painting. Here I met Jerry, the father of the famed “walking Mary” ( Mary is out every day - she is petite but really swings those arms and legs). Jerry rode up on his bike and we talked for a bit. Later he returned with some gourds for me to paint….so next week, I try to paint on them…should be fun.

Stop by the Festival if your in Georgia!!!

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