In this photo Disney background artists Al Dempster, Bill Layne and Art Riley are examining character color model cels and background pai...

This has always been fascinating to me: The relationship between Disney layouts and final backgrounds. It is interesting to see what th...

This gorgeous Merryweather scene by Frank Thomas will be part of my book on The Nine Old Men . The most important key drawings will be s...

What a great photo montage with King Louie next to jazz musician and trumpeter extraordinaire Louis Prima, who also voiced the chara...

During the Legends Lunch a little over a couple of weeks ago I was happy to see a true Disney Legend, Ruthie Thompson. The first time I m...

...toward the end of next month: - Hardcover, almost 400 pages - Hundreds of drawings by the Nine Old Men, most of them never published...

In this scene Wart (as a sparrow) seems for a moment smitten with Madame Mim (as a beautiful Girl). Why Mim looks like a younger version ...

You can find great Disney art within many stages of film production. This color sketch by Mary Blair for Alice in Wonderland  is amazing ...

What a weekend! !!! I have no idea why I did this... With Kathryn Beaumont-Levine during our lunch. W...

August 10 is World Lion Day. In light of the recent horrific events surrounding Zimbabwe's lion Cecil, it is important to reflect on...

Fred Moore drew this pose of the dwarf Happy twice. First as a lively intuitive rough, then as a tie down. What I love so much about this...

A gorgeous color sketch of the Lackey from the film Sleeping Beauty by Milt Kahl. I love the contrast  within the shape arrangements. B...

The flowers in Disney's Alice in Wonderland have attitude issues. Friendly at first when a downsized Alice approaches them, but then ...