Slash is a satisfied TM customer.

This is a bronze Dinosaur sculpture that I did for guitar legend, Slash.  (Saul Hudson) A great guy to work with.

working on a 90 foot mural for a car museum.

One small section of the mural. keeping it loose.

old car sculpture

28" long by 9" wide.

Fernando Alonso (portrait)

My latest portrait. A guy that can be identified by one name, Alonso.

Enzo Ferrari portrait

Enzo Ferrari.


Digital Portrait by Tony Merrithew.

The New Planter's Mr. Peanut commercial

I'm finally finished with all the sculpts from the new Planter's Peanut commercials!



See the "making of" video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9maLZSzY78&feature=player_detailpage

Cello painting, oil on canvas

Today I'm hanging a 3 foot by 4 foot oil painting at a music school. On loan from T. Merrithew.

300 SL mercedes benz sculpture

The bronze Mercedes 300 SL is coming along fine after many months of work. Here's a shot of it at the foundry.

Vincent price

When I hear Michael Jackson's classic song "Thriller" I envision this face of Vincent.


Photo shop portrait ~TM

Michael Jackson (one year after his death)

I found a clay sketch that I did 23 years ago while working at Will Vinton studios. I'm still sculpting there today , now called Laika studios.

Automobile bronze sculpture-Mercedes sculpture-Automobile art-bronze car sculpture

Mercedes 300 SL sculpture.

I was recently asked about some of the Automobile sculpture that I've done in the past. Here's a bronze 300 Sl Mercedes that measures 28 inches long and weights 60 lbs. The original pattern was carved out of sculpting wax over a hand fabricated wooden under structure and took several weeks to complete. I actually sold one to "Slash" the famous guitar player.

Frank Frazetta painting

This is a digital portrait painting of Frank Frazetta the legendary fantasy artist.

Digital portrait (Cary Grant)

Sailing ship (digital painting)

Woody allen

Digital painting of woody Allen.

Audrey hepburn painting

Digital portrait of Audrey.

Jimi Hendrix painting

I got a bit sidetracked with this painting since it's not my usual oil media. It was fun to do and he was a great musician.

Cuban red macaw

Digital painting By Tony Merrithew

New Coraline artwork

I found a couple more images of characters that I did for the feature film Coraline.

New 30" X 40" oil painting.

I finally had time to post my latest painting. Inspired by Rene Magritte, son of man.

Michael Jackson "This is it"

Sorry for not posting lately. I've been fussing with facebook for the last couple of weeks. I did manage to see the MJ movie though.

A couple of quick drawings but I must get back to painting!

Art show in January

I have a two man show coming up in Portland's pearl district. I have to get going on a new painting.
This one recently sold at the gallery
30" X 40" oil on canvas

Animation exhibit comes down

The Oregon historical society Claymation exhibit has been taken down. Hope all that wanted to see it had a chance to do so. They're looking for ideas and possible places to set up for the next exhibit. Seattle was one possibility but their museum is booked for two years out.

Red wine bottles, Oil painting

30" X 40 Oil on canvas

Michael Jackson (jackson five)

I sculpted this little 8-1/2 " Michael Jackson figure 23 years ago. When I first started at Will Vinton studios in 1986 I was into Michael's music and thought this would be a cool sculpt to do. It's made from Avalon oil based clay over a wire and brass armature and even the Mickey mouse is done using a clay inlay. I did it on my own time and it was never used in a commercial or anything but the odd thing was that about a year after I sculpted this, Michael called the studio and said "I wanna be a raisin". From there we began work on the MJ California raisin commercial and later speed demon music video.

It's in rough shape after all these years but I thought people would like to see it.

Apples in a glass

30" X 40" oil on gallery canvas.


















One of the coolest things about being in this gallery is that those drawings just to the right of frame are original Salvador-Dali $22,000 works of art. I'm honored to be in the same space.

Michael Jackson RIP

I'd been working on a life sized sculpture of Michael Jackson and was actually filming the process for a youtube clip that I was going to show on one of the MJ fan club websites. This is Michael from the 1980's about the time he would have done the Thriller video.

When I had the facial features a little further along I was going to splice the head onto the torso and finish that out with buckles and shoulder epaulets. Once finished I intended to cast it as a bronze statue (bronze sculpture) of Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson's magnetism, dance moves and artistic charisma have changed the musical landscape forever. One of the most widely beloved and influential artists of all-time.



RIP~

In the Gallery

I have work in a Portland Pearl district gallery this Summer. Shown here are two 30" X 40" oils.

Little violinist

I've been very busy with other things but I'm finally back to painting.
16" X 20" oil on canvas

Claymation history exhibit

Coming to the Oregon historical society next week (Thursday the 14th) through September of 09. Will Vinton gave a talk to a couple hundred people on RSVP night and has presented lots of images, props and artwork that he's saved and tracked down from over the years. They're running ten small monitors and one huge monitor with various DVD animation compilations of films, TV specials and commercials as well as the creative process from the 70's through the 90's and there's fifteen sections with four thousand square feet of exhibit space. I was asked to come in for a couple of weeks to clean up and repair characters as well as "Recreate" my old workspace from the 1980's, so that's been quite a walk down memory lane. I'll try to post some pictures later but it's a pretty cool exhibit and something worth seeing in person at http://www.ohs.org/