Sketches from DreamWorks Studio

A page from my sketchbook in 2000.

Redwood Shores Sunset

Subaru Commercial Submission

This is a submission of examples of my paintings for a TV commercial about a Subaru owner using his car to get to remote locations to paint. See the full story and commercial here. I love how the commercial turned out but my work was not used in the end and I'm very happy about that. You'll understand why when you see it.

Sunny Glen

Creek Bed

Live Oak

More Woods

Woods

Autumn Path

Big Tujunga Creek

Ink Study

From the animated film Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron

Acrylic on illustration board, 12"x 26".

A Bit of Snow

Playing hookey back in '04

Standing on the Hillside

Los Gatos Canyon

Trying to quickly get that backlight over the Verdugo Mountains surrounding LA.

Death Valley Bluff

Provo Canyon, Utah

Costa Rican Palm

Snowy Bridge in Sugar City Idaho

Ink on paper.

Ink study

Hills of Home

The Hills of Central California at dusk.

Hurricane Canyon, Utah

Happy New Year from Land Sketch!

Merry Christmas from Land Sketch!

I had to dig around a bit to find a sketch with some snow in it.
You do get some interesting patterns in the way the snow sits on those hillsides; this is in Provo Canyon, Utah.

Angeles Crest Forest

Smokey Bear Valley

Dusk in Descanso Gardens

California Central Coast HWY 1

Sky Meet Sea

I was invited by Krister Axel, an independent musician to do a CD cover in the vein of the loose sketchbook studies here on Land Sketch. The title and theme is "Sky Meet Sea".

Central California Studies

 

Beach House

Utah Storm

Angeles Forest Pool

Pool in Sweitzer Canyon, Angeles Crest Forest, CA, digital.

At the Airport

Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron

Painting for the animated film Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron.

This is the preliminary sketch.

Tonal Studies in Ink

 

Field of Flowers. Painted for "Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron" 2001. Acrylic on Crescent board.

A glimpse of Elizabeth Lake.

Fall in Angeles Crest Forest, digital.

View from my hotel in Death Valley.

Here's a quickie of the Lake Tahoe area on the California/Nevada border.

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I first came a cross the work of James Reynolds in Southwest Art magazine as a teenager and years later was thrilled to find he had a book out called Trail Dust.
But I was upset too, his color was so much better than mine! so I decided to copy every single painting in the book to figure it out. I didn't have time for elaborate copies so quick thumbnails had to suffice, this was so helpful for me that to this day I do quick color studies of anything and everything to try and improve my chops. These are acrylic on illustration board.