splotchy scribbly

2012-01-13T18:29:00.001-05:00

Here's another one of the development designs I did for the Fievel's American Tails series.

An American Tail

2011-09-07T12:27:00.004-04:00

Here's an old design I did for the Fievel's American Tails series that Nelvana worked on in the early 90's.

Parkside

2011-03-28T15:02:00.005-04:00

Ii have been really busy boarding away on Johnny Test but squeezed in a little bit of Photoshop time for this. My wife and I walk by here most days.

City park

2011-02-10T22:42:00.004-05:00

Just an old thumbnail that I cleaned up a bit so the Xmas tree wouldn't be up all winter.

Happy Holidays

2010-12-19T19:39:00.004-05:00

It's a boy!

2008-02-28T19:56:00.008-05:00

A few months ago my wife's brother and his family came up from Arizona to our place for dinner. Yes,it's a long trip for dinner but what made it a unique experience was that it was the first time that my wife and her brother had seen each other since...well the first time ever.
Well the entire meeting turned out simply fantastic and it's great to suddenly have a brand new extended family.
A couple of days later we all went out to the Niagara Bench to visit a couple wineries.It was a wonderful,warm fall day and this was the view from from one of the wineries looking out over the lake.

Somethin' a lil' different...

2008-02-15T19:52:00.004-05:00

Nope! not another pastel. Haven't tried oils in a long time and I don't think I ever tried a still life. Thank the Lord for Ctrl z

Niagara River Mouth

2008-02-06T21:21:00.002-05:00

I've been really busy with work so I haven't had a chance to get out and do some drawing/photography for a winter scene, so here is one I've been fiddling with from a photo I found.
Out in the snow this weekend for sure!

Lake Farquar

2008-02-01T14:31:00.001-05:00

Nope, didn't see any ogres or donkeys, but still a beautiful place to spend summer vacation.So beautiful in fact ,we will be back there this year.

Beak Bites

2008-01-26T17:14:00.002-05:00

A while back now I had the opportunity to create a new brand for a local company's product line. The pitch went over well and it was decided that we would also do a couple of animated commercials. This gave me an chance to write the scripts (which I've always wanted to do) and direct (which I hadn't done in a long time). I was lucky enough to be able to enlist the talents of Sasa Radosavcevic (design), Don Gauthier (backgrounds) and Steve Whitehouse (board) to work on the project, which was produced at Story City.

The first one (my favourite of the two) has not yet gone into production ,but here is the second one...

Niagara in the fall...

2008-01-17T20:25:00.001-05:00

Another fall time pastel.
My wife and I love to go down to Niagara on the Lake to hike and explore.It's a beautiful place and being so close to home we are hoping to make a habit of visiting more often this year. I'd love to spend a lot more time painting the Gorge and the surrounding vineyards...if I wasn't fishin:)

2008!

2008-01-07T23:03:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone had a great New Year. I love the holidays but it is kind of nice to get back into a routine. It always seems funny when Christmas falls in the middle of the week and everyone wanders around for the holidays wondering what day of the week it really is.
Here's another pastel to start the year off...

Last one for 2007!

2007-12-29T20:42:00.001-05:00

Received my new Cintiq this week and it's fantastic! It looked like UPS was going to give me the grinchy but they finally delivered. Very nice! and combined with Toon Boom Storyboard it's shaping up to be quite an exciting '08 . I'll be starting the year working on Willa's Wild Life , hopefully I can post a few samples later on in the year.
In the mean time...
...here's a few doodles done on my laptop.

Happy New Year everyone, all the best for 2008.

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-23T18:08:00.001-05:00

T.V. doodles

2007-12-16T19:51:00.001-05:00

I don't watch much television, but I have found that it's not a bad place to sit down and sketch for a few minutes...here's a few

Yes, I like trees...

2007-12-11T00:45:00.000-05:00

Here's a couple more colour sketches.The first one was done in Sketchbook Pro and the second one in ArtRage.
I should also thank Nela Dunato at In Obscuro for her cool P.S. brush I used for part of the header.

Here we go...

2007-12-06T12:35:00.000-05:00

So I finally have taken the time to put up a blog. I could list a million reasons why, but the simple truth is that I started this blog for the same reason every other Toronto animation artist did....
...I had lunch with Smook.

From the summer time,this was my first ever digital sketch. Done completely in photoshop