Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 4: Free Disney Coloring Sheets

Here's another set of Mickey Mouse coloring pages. These are from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD release, Minnie's Bow-Tique! Minnie has set up her new store. And guess what's in it - bows! There are lots of colorful bows and bow ties, each of diferent kinds. Get ready to make these printable coloring sheets of your fave Disney characters as colorful as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Happy coloring!

Just click on the images to view the large image file one by one to download and print! or to download the whole volume in print ready/PDF format click here:

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FANTASTIC WORLDS EXHIBITION

Fellow Muddies Donotao Giancola and John Jude Palencar along with an impressive roster of artists are now on view at the Kenosha Public Museums in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Donato will be conducting a workshop at the museum... but I'll let him tell you about that at a later date. The exhibit is curated by Rachel Klees Andersen. Here's the exhibit info:



FANTASTIC WORLDS- Masters of Science Fiction & Fantasy Art 

Participating Artists:  Steven Anderson, Volkan Baga, Edward Binkley, Aaron Boyd, Linda Dockey Graves, Jeff Easley, Bob Eggleton, Marc Fishman, Donato Giancola, Scott Gustafson, Christina Hess, Tim Holter Bruckner, Ingrid Kallick, Kristin Kest, Thomas Kuebler, Don Maitz, Jeff Menges, Aaron Miller, Jeff Miracola, Jim Nelson, John Jude Palencar, Steve Rude, Dave Seeley, Lothar Speer, John Stanko, Matthew Stewart, Vincent Villafranca, Janny Wurtz.



Rachel Klees Andersen, Curator of Exhibits; The Kenosha Public Museums.



Kenosha Public Museum- Natural History and Art, Civil War Museum, Dinosaur Discovery Museum 5500 First Ave Kenosha, WI 53140 Main 262-653-4140

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Jake and the Neverland Pirates 3: Free Disney Coloring Sheets

Ahoy maties! Jake and his crew have come back for your coloring leisure! Just say the pirate password, "Yo Ho Ho!" and here are some free printable coloring pages of your favorite pirate-y show, Jake and the Never Land Pirates. Join Jake, Izzy, Cubby, and Skully as they go on adventure finding treasures. Help them find treasures and collect gold doubloons. Join the fun on Neverland with Jake and his crew. Yo ho let's go!

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Hugo Awards... Live!

It seems every Art Director I know is in Reno, Nevada right now attending the World Science Fiction Convention, which is also the host of this year's Hugo Award Ceremony.



The Hugo Awards celebrate the year's best achievements in SF/F novels, films, and artistry.  If the embedded player is not working, you can watch the award ceremony live via the link below. The show starts in just one hour, 9pm Pacific Time.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/worldcon1

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Kung Fu Panda 1: Free Disney Coloring Sheets

 
Grab your crayons now 'coz here is your favorite action-packed animated film, Kung Fu Panda! These are some coloring sheets of your favorite Kung Fu Panda characters - Po, The Furious Five, Master Shifu, and Tai Lung.

Meet the Furious Five - Master Crane, Master Viper, Master Monkey, Master Mantis, and Master Tigress. Each of them possess unique skills. Their trainer is Master Shifu. He was entrusted of training the Dragon Warrior, which was Po, for the comeback of Tai Lung. Tai Lung came back for a revenge and for stealing the Dragon Scroll. He was also trained by Master Shifu when still young and was treated as his own son. In the end, the big fat panda became a true warrior and saved the Valley of Peace from Tai Lung.

So what are you waiting for? Download this Kung Fu Panda Coloring Book Pages and learn the kung fu! Just click on the download link here for the ready-to-print PDFfile:

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New Start

by Eric Fortune





I'm off on some new work. As usual I'm excited and ready for the challenge. Best to enjoy that while I can:) This is the first of a series I plan on doing that will incorporate figures with more interior elements. As always I'm going to try and stay a little looser in the beginning of my painting and try not to get too fussy too early.



I've been thinking about where I want this work to go. For reference I think I'll be revisiting a piece I did a few years back for The National Labor Foundation. I thought the piece was fairly successful and I rather enjoyed working on it.

Here I scanned and blew up my thumbnail with is actually about 1.5 x 2" so that I would have a larger image to look at when posing my model and shooting reference.

I normally like to save time and loosely transfer my thumbnail onto the paper and proceed with the final drawing. However, there were enough anatomical things that were bugging me that I felt the need to work out my refined drawing separately prior to transferring. I actually made even more adjustments in photoshop after scanning in the final.  Was it worth it?  I hope so.

This piece is in it's infancy and I'm just beginning to refine the face. Stay tuned for more.

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Tapping Inspirations -Book Illustration

-by Donato



With this particular commission from Tor books for the cover of L.E. Modesitt's novel Scholar, I not only tapped into the manuscript for inspiration, but found another source to push me beyond the commercial work and into a theme I have been exploring for my gallery presentations - that of the sea.

Many times in my career I have found it exciting to pull ideas and concepts from outside the literature I am to create and illustration for and dive into themes which may be more universally appealing. While Robinson Crusoe was not on my mind when creating sketches for this work, it slowly emerged from the depths of my subconscious as I began to generate the full sized cartoon and play with destruction of the ship after a storm - illuminating the frailty of humanity's struggles against nature. Once the work began to speak to me, I was no longer executing a commercial cover commission nor attempting to create a painting solely for gallery exhibition, but rather I was engrossed in the process of creating a beautiful and compelling work of art for its own integrity.

When this state hits me, I am in artistic heaven! I will do what ever needed to complete the work to my satisfaction, regardless of deadlines, fees or commercial constraints. For when a work speaks to me in such a way I know it will likely speak to others and justify the additional labor needed to pursue its perfection. I look forward to these works, and have been lucky to have this feeling strike more and more often in these past years.

I wish you the same pleasurable mining!

Scholar- Robinson Crusoe

36" x 48" Oil on Panel

I now began to consider that I might yet get a great many things out of the ship which would be useful to me, and particularly some of the rigging and sails, and such other things as might come to land; and I resolved to make another voyage on board the vessel, if possible. And as I knew that the first storm that blew must necessarily break her all in pieces, I resolved to set all other things apart till I had got everything out of the ship that I could get.

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

And here is the real artist at work! One of my daughters, Cecilia, putting in time during the night shift at 3 am :) And yes she was working on the painting for real!

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