Oceanside Museum of Art

I went to visit the Oceanside Museum of Art the other day to check out the Neville Page exhibit. I also checked out the WWII watercolor exhibit they had going on as well. Here are some photos I took:

I love the colors in this one. You can see the artist used a bluish purple for the shadows.



This one was pretty big.



Victory gardens.
And now here is the real reason I went to the museum:



I was presently surprised to see some more cartoony stuff amongst the realistic creature designs he had. He should do more of it!



Seeing anatomy stuff like this shows how pro Page is. He's not faking it.

Some more old photos

Sketchbook

Based on a true story (unfortunately):

Date unknown. People unknown. Location unknown. I have plenty of photos that I do not know anything about and thus cannot post on Shorpy.com. So at least for now, they go here on the blog.

More View-Master

Here's a small fold-out poster that was inside the box. On the back it says it's been "Revised February, 1951".

I was kind of trying to do a quick futurist thing with the leash.

Little Black Sambo View-Master

These are scanned from the original 1948 View-Master reel.
It's kind of migraine inducing after a while, but you can cross your eyes and align the two images into one to get the 3-D effect if you want.


"1 Black Mumbo and Little Black Sambo"


"2 Little Black Sambo Goes For A Stroll"


"3 The First Tiger Takes His Red Coat"


"4 He Loses All His Fine Clothes"


"5 The Tigers Try to Eat Each Other Up"


"6 Black Jumbo Gathers Tiger Butter"


"7 They Feast on Tiger Butter Pancakes"

The short history on how I acquired the View-Master can be read here.

I did this in charcoal on my friend Kyle's wall before his family renovated the house.


Closeup of the ink in an upcoming comic.


1920s lady.

Burn Books

James Mason

I've had an urge recently to challenge myself by doing a "realistic" comic. So I thought to search for a tough guy face to base my character on.
I was watching TCM when a little profile on James Mason came up. I thought he had the right looks and did a few sketches of him.

Hank Ketcham was a god

I've been pouring over this book called Where's Dennis? that catalogs much of Ketcham's pre-Dennis illustrations.
While he was known for his line work, I was enamored with his choice of colors as well.

Check out the yellow and green. Both are rich and colorful and yet are not garish. I also love the subdued, responsible use of pink on both the dog and the blanket:


And when I say responsible, I mean not like this:


Also note the use of lines pointing toward the man, the main focus:


The boy on the left's multiple legs is a hint at Ketcham's animation past.


For my money, Ketcham drew the most appealing kids ever.

Nice Shades

I didn't know they had cool Oakley shades in the '40s:

Taken from http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/

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