Sunday, February 8, 2026

King Hubert and Prince Philip

As I am working on the Milt Kahl book, I started to select images of drawings that I feel are important to be included. There will be a large chapter on Milt's work for Sleeping Beauty. And I do have drawings that have not appeared yet on my blog or elsewhere online. 

I am looking for Milt's rough animation of the scene pictured here. Hubert is frustrated upon finding out that his son doesn't want to marry the princess, but a girl he had just met in the forest.

This is a long scene, and Milt gives a masterful performance of Hubert's outrage.

Many rough drawings and scenes from this film have been made available over the past two decades or so, and  I have been lucky to acquire a nice inventory. But I have not yet seen any offerings from this scene. Let me know if you are the owner of some of the key drawings. I would love to include them in the book.

I would need scans, and you'll get a free copy of the book.






Friday, January 16, 2026

Animal Artists

I always get excited when I come across an animal artist (from the past or from the present) that I never knew anything about. Other artists' styles and points of view can really inspire and make you think about your own approach toward animals.

I am wondering if you have any favorites in the world of animal art. Let me know, it might be somebody I haven't discovered yet. 

Here are three great artists whose work I found out about not so long ago.  


Eugen Bracht



Arthur Wardle



Elsie Marian Henderson


Thursday, January 8, 2026

Peter Moehrle on MUSHKA

Here are just a few examples of production designs by the extraordinary Peter Moehle. Previoudly I had worked with Peter at Disney's Orlando Studio on Lilo and Stitch. On that film Peter created concept art as well as finished background paintings in watercolor.

For MUSHKA I wanted rough suggestions for several of the film's locations. He nailed the style immediately, and Background supervisor Natalie Franscioni-Karp used his ideas in her settings to great effect. 











Monday, December 22, 2025

Merry Christmas


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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Zebras 1983

As I am organizing my archive, I came across this old wildlife sketch from way back. In 1983 I was animating on The Black Cauldron. But on weekends there was still time for personal art.

Let's see what else might surface as I try and get organized...