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Terrible Yellow Eyes Show at Gallery Nucleus

I just got back from Los Angeles, where Gallery Nucleus is exhibiting a selection of original pieces from Terrible Yellow Eyes. It was a great venue, and a very impressive turn out. I heard several people who have attended many shows at Nucleus say it was one of the best they’ve seen.

For those of you who were unable to attend, there’s a great online gallery available here.

Three cheers for Maurice Sendak for providing the inspiration, for Gallery Nucleus for allowing more people to enjoy the work, and of course Cory Godbey for dreaming this thing up.

Here are more pictures from the show:

Cory looking at some of the original artwork for the first time.

Sebastien Mesnard and Chad Frye (both contributors to TYE)

Cory and Kazu Kabuishi (another TYE contributor and author of “Amulet”)

Cory Godbey and Sebastien Mesnard (one of the contributors to TYE).

View from the gallery floor.

Cory and his wife Erin at the show.

Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA

Drawn Together

Chris and Annie Koelle are 1/3 of a unique show starting tomorrow through October 2nd. The Showroom in downtown Spartanburg, SC will be displaying artwork by three couples. It will definitely be worth a visit if you’re in the area, and the opening reception will be tomorrow night from 7 – 9 PM.

Illustration Links

Some of the illustrators I work with were very busy on their blogs this week.

Justin Gerard has been doing a series called “Portraits of Monsters,” and this week he posted a gem. You can follow this series here on his blog.

Cory Godbey has been writing about his oil painting process, and he’s almost finished with this piece.

Zach Franzen’s blog is fun to read on a number of levels, but recently he posted this portrait of Abe Lincoln.

Also, don’t forget to check out Terrible Yellow Eyes today for Cory Godbey’s latest updates.

Lightlings and Prince’s Poison Cup Animation

Over the last few years, Portland Studios has partnered with Ligonier Ministries on two picture books written by best-selling author R.C. Sproul. Both The Lightlings and Prince’s Poison Cup were illustrated by Justin Gerard.

Last year, Ligonier approached Portland Studios about creating an animated version of the two picture books. Taking artwork from a picture book and translating that into animation was an interesting challenge, but the end result is really nice. This style of animated, moving-pictures is becoming more and more common, so I think Ligonier is definitely on to something. You can see the trailers that Ligonier created below.

The main animator for this project was Danny McNight from Portland Studios. Zach Franzen also helped with storyboards and animation.

Flight 6

If you’re not familiar with the Flight Anthologies, I would encourage you to check it out as soon as you can. Flight was created and edited by Kazu Kibuishi, who is also the author of the Amulet Series.

Cory Godbey was invited to contribute to the most recent edition. He illustrated a 40 page, wordless story entitled Walters, and you can read all about his process and see some of the illustrations here at his blog.