Channel Frederator Blog

Many of you know Bill Wray from his outrageously masterful artwork for Ren and Stimpy and Samurai Jack. But he has a completely independent career as a fine artist, creating subtle and moody oil paintings inspired by Masters of American Illustration like N.C. Wyeth and J.C. Leyendecker. He is particularly fond of industrial landscapes. A selection of his paintings is currently on exhibit at the Segil Fine Art gallery in Monrovia, California, through August 9th.

Wanna buy a painting? There are still a few left.

If you’d like a dose of the wackier side of Wray, you can check out these links… [Read more…]

Inspired by Eric’s post, here’s a piece of Flapjack Fan Art I created for my pal and ol’ Cubicle Buddy: Thurop Van Orman, creator of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

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Rob Richards, who runs the Animation Backgrounds blog, has posted another great piece from “Lilo & Stitch”.

While many of the backgrounds posted on Rob’s site are great, I think the backgrounds from “Lilo & Stitch” are especially nice. It’s sometimes hard to catch the level of detail while watching the actual film, but many of these backgrounds could stand on their own as paintings.

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