Paola likes Wallace and Gromit, so I threw in the chicken from Chicken Run, too. Matt liked my original Calvin and Hobbes so much, he asked for one for himself. I wanted this particular Calvin and Hobbes to look like the cartoon. Whereas the original was a hybrid of 3D and cartoon art. Here's my first attempt to paint icelandic poppies for John Nemerovski.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Nick, my development editor at Macmillan, is a big Disney fan, particularly a fan of Disney villains. Borrowing from Rothko and Matisse , I thought of both the joy of growing up with my grandmother as well as the sadness of losing her. She lived a simple life, and treasured American Cinema, especially its stars. I thought this image captured the abstract state of my youth as I knew her in the prime of her life.