Watts Atelier (summer schedule)

For anyone who is interested, and for any out-of-towners check out the one week unlimited trial on page two

Drawings and Demos (May 09)

25 min +/- portrait demos














5 min quick sketches






25 min +/- figure

Inside The Artist's Studio part 7

drapery week 2

Hecatomb Step x Step

Here is one of the first commissioned illustrations I ever did. It was for a long since discontinued TCG from Wizards called Hecatomb. The card was called Hush.

Inside The Artist's Studio part 6

Drapery week 1

This is Bizarro

Okay, I love Bizarro Superman, which is why I checked this out to start with, but when I saw what came up at 4:12 it made me giggle like a school girl.

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Painting Demonstration

I will be doing a free painting demonstration on Thursday, April 9th from 4:00pm- 10:00pm at Watts Atelier, 171 Calle Magdalena Ste. 103 Encinitas, CA 92024.

Take I-5 to Encinitas Blvd. heading EAST

Right at Calle Magdalena (Cocos on corner)

Follow road to end (1/4 mile).

First building on the left, single story
Bldg # 171, Suite 103

All are welcome.
Hopefully this will signal a return to more regular posting. For those that miss it I will post photos from the demo soon.

Inside the Arist's Studio part 5

part 5 further examination of form and lighting

Greatest Show on Earth (February '09) and an apology

This month we have two shows that must be seen, fortunately they are near each other

First, opening tonight
Drew Struzan: An Artist's Vision
February 13, 2009 - March 2, 2009
at Gallery Nucleus


Second

Masters of the American West
at the Autry National Center


and last an apology, I have been slacking a bit on the blog. Starting next week I should be back on track. Have a happy Valentines day.

Greatest Show on Earth (January 09)

Wendt Gallery Annual Winter Exhibition 2009
January 15th - February 15th
Featuring work by Donato Giancola
An excerpt from Donato's website
"This year I have been graciously invited by Serina and Joseph Manqueros to participate in the 2009 Annual Winter Exhibition at the Wendt Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. I have spent the last few months of 2008 creating five new paintings to premiere at the show: "Progeny", "Autumn", "Perseverance", "Sandstorm" and "Venus Awakening". In addition to these new paintings, I will also be showing part of my "Water" triptych."

Sketch Redux (January 2009)

This is a cover for "To Sleep With Evil" the fourth novel in a series of reprints for Ravenloft by WotC. Jon Foster did the first three covers, so this meant two things, one I was very nervous and two I had a pre-established continuity of layout to work with. These covers are done in two pieces and then composited by the AD/Designer Matt Adelsperger.

Art Description:
Character: Margueritte dressed in a silken gown (actually crafted from human flesh) She is pregnant with an unholy, cursed, monstrous child. Though she has no proof of it, she just has a feeling that there is something wrong with the fetus
Background Panel description: The husband (and lord) has sworn an oath to eliminate all beauty in his lands and has begun to kill off the most beautiful woman. He does this by lopping off their heads and tying their neck's closed with ribbons and/or choker collars. So, lots of dead heads. It could be handled as a pile of them on the floor with the camera situated above and shooting directly down on them.

Sketch wave 1




Matt wanted me to try turning Margueritte's head, as if she is looking back over her shoulder fearfully, and to make the heads more of a nondescript mass of heads rather than a pile

Sketches wave 2


He picked the option on the right and I went to...

The Finish

Inside the Artist's Studio part 4

#4 Abstraction and Rythmes