Le Gourmand, coming to a Sheridan near you

Hello Everyone! I just finished my film! To celebrate, here are a couple of my backgrounds. Enjoy!

Film Postcard

Le Gourmand

Hey everyone. I've been busy with my film this year and I'm finally finally putting up the first piece of art related to it! (Even though there's been a ton produced) Yay! My film is about a man feeding birds in the beautiful Par-ee, and these are my characters. The colours aren't necessarily final yet - I may have to tweak them a bit depending on my backgrounds.

My characters are (from left to right): Generic Pigeon #1, Baby Pigeon and Maurice.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Hello lovely blog viewers. I'm so excited - Christmas is my favourite time of year and I'm just about to head home for the holidays (in a week that can't end soon enough!) Since I'll be computer-less when I'm home, I thought I should wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all the best for the New Year now while I can!
See you all in the New Year!

YAY Snow

I like snow - a lot. So in honour of the winter storms that are sweeping across the country, here's a little snowy scene I threw together in PS.

Happy Birthday Mumsey

It's almost my Mom's birthday, and since I won't see her for it, I gave her her present in advance over reading week. She was sooo happy; apparently I've never ever given her any of my artwork before. She loved this painting. It goes perfectly with all the colours of our house. I know, I know, Italy is more my thing than hers, but it's still pretty. (And besides, beachy landscapes don't exactly match the decor of our house.) Anyhoo, the painting is...oh my gosh i forget the size...well it's the biggest size of illustration board one can purchase at the Sheridan bookstore, if that helps! And it's acrylic paint. Happy almost Birthday Mom!

Jazz + Rain = True Love?

Painting stuff for other people all summer has gotten a little, well, uninspiring and so I decided to paint this just for myself (and for all my lovely blogging viewers). Lovely Italia - my one true love. I have been waiting to go forever and it seems I’ll have to wait a little longer. But in the eternal words of Mr. Phil Collins, or his mother it seems, “You can’t hurry love…NOOOO…you’ll just have to wait” … and wait I shall.
Painted to the perfect combination soundtrack of jazz and raindrops, two other great loves of my life, this was done in about 6 hours on Photoshop from my ginormous book of pictures of Italy. It’s called “Overlooking Lake Como”.

Brrrr

Stuck here in my non-air-conditioned, increasingly eco-friendly abode (not exactly a deliberate choice), my grade 9 gym class’ mantra repeats itself in my head: “Girls don’t sweat, we glow.” Suuuuure. However, being cooped up in here for days on end while madly working on the television show Cyberchase has had its benefits. I have discovered the only way of beating the sweltering heat of summer. Goodbye popsicles, pools and fans. Sandwich bags filled with ice cubes? Been there, done that. Instead, I have channelled my intense wish for cold into beautiful backgrounds of ice palaces and endless snowy fields. What better way to beat the heat than to paint snow? Thank you, Cyberchase! (And maybe next time I’ll take a nice eco-friendly bike ride to the nearest air-conditioned mall.)

Please note that the backgrounds are property of PIP Animation.

Gypsies and Cowboys and Cowgirls, oh my!

I was preparing my life drawing portfolio for tomorrow when I realized that I've been doing more and more life painting than life drawing. Hopefully Gerry won't mind some of my watercolour studies as substitutes. These are a few that I've done, anywhere from 1 minute to 20 minutes.

Scene 43 revised

Again, this is the last shot of our group film this year. I just did a couple touch-ups, brightened it a wee bit and altogether spiffyfied it.

Somewhere cold and caked in snow...

Scene 21

Something Old

While I was home for reading week I made a huge discovery! Apparently in first year I had a tendency to stash all my paintings in a hidden filing cabinet in the basement, never to see the light of day again...until now...Here's my copy of Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" (c. 1625)

If I remember correctly, the assignment was to take a piece from our lovely art history book and copy it to learn how the artist used lights and darks in the image. Unfortunately I didn't have oil paints at the time, so I used watercolour...manymanymany layers of watercolours.

Scene 43

We're working on group films this year at Sheridan and I've just completed the first clean layout and painting of our group's film!

For more information about our group film, "That Voodoo That You Do", check out our group blog at www.blackrabbitprod.blogspot.com . Unfortunately, I don't think we've updated it since last semester and the story has definitely changed since then. The concept art still applies, however, since it did help get us to the point we're at now. Enjoy!

Happy Valentine's Day

So as a Valentine's Day gift to myself, and in order to fufill last year's New Years resolution (better late than never...), I have decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon and create a blog for myself, with regular updates as to what I'm working on for the school as well as my own personal artwork...at least I hope there will be regular updates...easier said than done.

Enjoy