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HPL PORTRAIT

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My Grandma's House

We used to stay here sometimes when I was little- and I had to stay on the dreaded haunted third floor which was mostly rooms nobody ever went in. They were filled with old draped furniture and who knows what! It was a scary place, Grandma's old house... in Flushing, Long Island. Long demolished, which might be a good thing. Looks very cool now to me though... strange.

Write Stuff

Further Along!

Pete Who???

Please note: I have NOTHING to do with Dinosaur Revolution - for ages!- Or with any release on DVD, blu ray or otherwise. I don't know where the idea came from but evidently people think I am involved. Sorry but that would be the day! Nobody gives a hang what I think about the show or how they should assemble it for release. I have been disconnected from the production since my last storyboard work. Still hope the feature version will be great though!

Albino Dino

Kind of an aborted "ugly duckling" story from the cluttered cutting room floor!

Work In Progress

A zombie border sketch. Stay tuned for update!

What Beaky Was Going to See...

From the anhanguera sequence in Dino Revo. Oh well...!

Curb Your Dinosaurs

Pubert

Maybe Nerdy But It's Kirby...

Oz-Borns

Ghost Octopus

I'm Super- Thanks for Asking

Did this for fun while working briefly on the not-produced Tim Burton Superman movie. Somehow somebody got hold of it and posted it as part of some concept art and people went apeshit hating it! Most amusing that they took it so seriously! Anyway here it is and here's the story as I explained to the poster of the pic: "Just FYI the superman "robo-suit" drawing I made was a JOKE! I only worked on the movie for about 2 weeks and mainly drew monsters for Brainiac's intergalactic zoo. I just made a couple superman pix for fun and to relieve the monotony- no idea how or why anybody has begun to take it seriously. A lot of stuff gets generated in the concept art stage, some of it just for fun among the artists. Anyway, everybody relax about that drawing, puh-leeeze!"

MONSTERPALOOZA COMING,,,

APRIL 13-15,Burbank Airport Hilton

TJ Guy

A Great Man Passes: Dan Varner

"Varner, Daniel Wade. Born April 19, 1949, died January 1, 2012 in his home in Plainsboro, New Jersey. Survived by wife Marcia Bell; mother, June Varner; sisters Betsy (Ray) Troyer; Holly Varner Moe; Bonnie (Michael) Zirbes; many beloved nieces and nephews, cousins, and dear friends from the Minneapolis MN area; and friends and colleagues from all over. Dan was a very gifted painter of landscapes and wildlife, but his passion was paleontology and his paintings of prehistoric life hang in museums throughout the country and are published in books and journals on the subject. He was a kind and gentle man with a wonderful wit and will be remembered and missed by all. Donations to the American Cancer Society. Memorial service at a later date." I am still in a bit of a state of shock and totally bummed that my great pal, Dan Varner, is no longer available to chat with and laugh with and share info and pictures and camaraderie. I talked with him at least once a week by phone and exchanged emails for more than ten years. He was a wonderful man and an incredible artist, which you can plainly see. He wrote of the photo of himself: "Thought you might like this to remember me by... It's sometime in the mid-1990's. That's our truck, Daisy, in the backround and we are surrounded by miles of mosasaurs. That's about as happy as this dude ever got! Pass the plaster, please." For Dan was a guy who actually spent time in the field digging up fossils, no armchair paleontologist, who painted in oils with a classic flair. I will miss him so much. Hope his work will be more widely seen and appreciated. He has a lot of paintings at the Oceans of Kansas website and his work adorns the book of that title by Mike Everhart. Go to http://www.oceansofkansas.com/varner.html
More about this great man anon...

Glub!

Happy Dino Year

Ramming Speed!

Merry Whatever!

My Wife, Andrea, Sculpted These for Prehysteria

Great, ain't she?

Prehysteria by the Great Mark Hallett

Gouache painting by the great Mark Hallett who I somehow conned into helping me sell the movie! From a sketch I did.

Dino Revo N0-Show

Another unfinished story (placodus, mixosaurus and nothosaurus were to be featured at one early point)- and to those who have asked,sorry but I have no info of any kind on the formal release of the show. Nobody seems to know, or if they do, they ain't sharing it yet.

Not aTypo for "Shirtless"

Kong of Oz

One of my non-Books

Was going to make a limited edition and do a piece of original art in each copy (like maybe 25-50 copies). This a hardcover prototype. Would have cost a lot to make and probably not sell worth a damn- but the one I had made is very cool. At least I have ONE copy of the thing on the shelf.

Kirby Refurbished

Captain America 193 had a cover where John Romita re-drew Jack Kirby's Captain America face- which always bugged me! I re-did the face using Kirby's original pencils as a guide. Not a masterpiece by any means (on my part I mean) but it's kinda cool and much closer to what Jack actually drew. One of those things I think "I should do this sometime just... because!" And today happened to be the day!

Monster Thursday!

It's Monster Thursday! Please enjoy today's monster!

Crazy?

Even if you ARE crazy they can still be out to get you!

Moldy Oldie!

The Great Trek

A drawing I never quite liked/finished, but what the hell... from an older movie project.

MIST Opportunity

So, working on The Mist, for which I did the storyboards, I was also supposed to get to do some creature designs. This never happened for some reason... Frank??? Anyway if you know me at all I can't resist drawing a monster so here is a quick rough thing I did for the spiders... which I never even showed anyone. People like to keep you in the box they found you in I guess.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Christmas, holidays, whatever!

ROARRRGH!

NOT from the show.

Fermentation's Been Around,,,

Read from top down, column by column... this is just the first idea and the intro to what would have been a very funny story. Some will hate it, some will not- what else is new? :) Oh, that's an acrocanthosaurus reacting to the singing at the end... NOTE: We sometimes drew the kinds of animals we wanted to feature at the initial storyboard stage and would adjust the specific types as necessary if the science turned out that the animals we picked were not good matches, time and place-wise. Hence the iguanodons may have changed into a specific american type that worked with acro, or the acro might have become a different theropod which would work with a european iguanodon. Also the anatomy at this level was always rough and often the actual models had not been created so there was nothing show-specific to go on. Remember a storyboard is just to work out the plot and staging, not to be taken at all literally in terms of morphology.

Really?