new TYE! - stage 4 / final

Here's the fourth and final stage of my new TYE piece for the rapidly approaching (tomorrow!) Gallery Nucleus/Terrible Yellow Eyes show for which I am guest curator, whatever that means exactly. It means I got a new shirt for the show, that's what it means. Awesome!

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Here's the scan. The photographs turn out too warm.

I hope to see you tomorrow, 7PM at Gallery Nucleus!

I just might be drawing on the floors with chalk. I'm not sure. You'll have to come by and see for yourself.

new TYE! - stage 3

So here's the next stage of my new painting for the fast approaching Terrible Yellow Eyes show.


Going ok, until... Oh crap.


I got frustrated, poured water over the whole thing, and began again.

I'll do this from time to time. All else fails, pour water over it and see where it gets you.

Next post : the final!

new TYE! - stage 2

Here's the next stage in my new Terrible Yellow Eyes piece for the Gallery Nucleus show.



I'll be posting over the next couple days until the show revealing my new piece on Saturday, the day of the show.

See you there!

Gallery Nucleus!

I'm very much looking forward to the Terrible Yellow Eyes show at Gallery Nucleus! Probably even more so than Comic-Con in San Diego, mostly because SDCC is so much work and it's a performance for 10 hours a day. But this, is just going to be great.

Here's a great little post from gallery about receiving all the artwork and un-boxing it all,

Already very impressed by the work, everyone here nods when I say, "It would be a shame for people not to see this."

Hope to see you there!

pieces framed and new

With the TYE show fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to post some of the framed pieces I'll have for the show.




Special thanks to Annie for her death-defying photography skills.

I have one other and today I'm painting an entirely new piece. I'll be posting the progress over the next couple days.

As promised, here's the thumbnail for this new one :

updates

We've had a client in town for the last few days from Korea that we are creating an animated piece for (a short film, really) -- we've been hanging out and been busying getting slaughtered by him in Mario Kart. Awesome! DK, you are super cool. See you again in October.

That and in addition to other work, the Terrible Yellow Eyes show is in one week -- I really can't believe it and I'm terribly excited for it. I've wanted to visit Nucleus for quite some time and I'm very honored to have been asked to put together this show there.

Nucleus proudly presents Terrible Yellow Eyes, an exhibition by guest curator Cory Godbey, creator of www.terribleyelloweyes.com

This exhibit is the selected physical gallery show of the online collection of artwork inspired by the beloved classic "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.

*Several new and original works will be on display
*Free refreshments served
*Free giveaways
*This is an all ages event

Contributing Artists:

Adam Volker
Alberto Cerriteño
Alina Chau
Ana Galvañ
Anastacia Sholik
Annie Bastine Koelle
Barnaby Ward
Bill Carman
Brittney Lee
Cedar Leidigh
C. G. Young
Chuck Groenink
Cory Godbey
Dan Matutina
Erin McGuire
Israel Sanchez
Jake Parker
Jayme McGowan
Jeremy Vanhoozer
Joel Furtado
Juan Manuel Pedraza
Justin Gerard
Mike Lee
Nicole Gustafsson
Pascal Campion
Patrick Murphy
Peter de Sève
Rilla Alexander
Robin Joseph
Rodrigo Avilés
Ruel Pascual
Sarah Caterisano
Seb Mesnard
Shanon Bonatakis
Timothy Banks

and more to be announced...

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If you will be in the area of Los Angeles or Alhambra, CA -- September 19th I hope you will be able to stop by and say hello!

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So, in honor of the upcoming show, I decided to create a new piece specifically for the show. I'll be posting the progress of the piece next week.

Thanks for stopping by!

It's official! TERRIBLE YELLOW EYES show

It's official! The TERRIBLE YELLOW EYES show will open at Gallery Nucleus September 19!

Nucleus proudly presents Terrible Yellow Eyes, an exhibition curated by Cory Godbey, creator of terribleyelloweyes.com.

This exhibit is the selected physical gallery show of the online collection of artwork inspired by the beloved classic "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.

I've been waiting a while to mention this; it's going to be awesome! I hope you'll be able to make it out!

Thank you for supporting Terrible Yellow Eyes.

I really cannot believe all of the staggering artists involved with Terrible Yellow Eyes. The project has truly become what I had hoped for but did not imagine exactly possible. When I think about the other contributing artists involvement and the level of jaw dropping work, it's really nothing more than a testament to just how bad people love Maurice Sendak.

The goal all along for Terrible Yellow Eyes was pretty straightforward; celebrate the book with pictures and invite (basically) everyone I would like to hang out and draw with to contribute.

But there was always a second goal, an alternate reason just sitting there, one that I never really mentioned (except to the contributing artists) but one that was supremely important to me : Mr. Sendak's 81st birthday.

When I began to seriously consider putting together something like Terrible Yellow Eyes I went to my friends over at Flight. These people are wonderful storytellers and staggering artists -- masters of visual and written communication, but not only that, they are also wonderfully kind. Kazu Kibuishi, a great friend and incredibly generous person, was the one who first invited me to contribute to Flight (Walters, Flight 6, this July!) and I'll take every chance I get to thank him again for that opportunity. But even more than that, Kazu offered a way to make my secondary goal a reality. His creative director also happened to have art directed Mr. Sendak before and knew him well and Kazu offered to pass the project on to him whenever I felt it was ready. June 10 was the day. As I understand it, the AD has indeed passed the site on. All I hope is that it might bring a smile to Mr. Sendak's face.

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Well, it has been a shining week for Wild Things, but does that mean the Terrible Yellow Eyes is over? Far from it. I can't be certain how long the project will go on but I'll continue to update every Friday so long as I am still receiving great work to post. There are several more amazing people still working on their contributions and I hope you'll check over today, I think we've got some of my most favorite contributions of the whole project (and that's saying something!)

The project will change some, however. My role will shift from contributor/curator to strictly curator. I've got many more projects to move on to and the San Diego Comic-Con is looming. There's much to prepare for that event (anyone going to be there too?)

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My goal all along for TYE was to honor the book, and express my love for it in pictures because I just couldn't do it with words, no matter how hard I tried. I've been humbled by the response of so many incredibly hard working, gifted artists. I think I can also say I've made a few new friends along the way.

Putting together Terrible Yellow Eyes has been the fulfillment of a years long desire to do something more than just enjoy Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak has influenced me and countless others so profoundly, so completely altering us and the face of what a children's book is and what the medium can be, it seems the only thing we could have ever done was to just celebrate it.

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I got to meet Mr. Sendak once, briefly, in NYC a couple years ago and got to tell him thank you; now, together, we can all show him thank you.

TYE mentions.

A few very cool Terrible Yellow Eyes mentions yesterday!


Irene Gallo had these terribly kind words for the project :

"...They are not just "re-draws" of the book. They are true, lovingly conceived and executed continuations of the conversation."

Thank you Irene.

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And over on the official Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze film adaptation blog, We Love You So, we scored another mention :

"We’ve gotten about 1,000 emails about this site since we started this adventure so it seems only fitting to post it on Maurice’s Birthday. Terrible Yellow Eyes, paintings upon paintings upon sketches, upon drawings all like the one above inspired by Wild Things."

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Another by my esteemed friend and fellow gardener, Jamin. His blog chronicles all sort of things I'm afraid of. Actually just the rambles. Everything else is great.

because it just turned June 10 on the eastern seaboard

Here's a peek at the drawing for my Terrible Yellow Eyes painting tomorrow -- wait no, today. In 11 hours.

Be sure and check out TYE starting at 8 AM, every 15 minutes, a new contribution for the special Maurice Sendak birthday postings!

JUNE 10 : Maurice Sendak's birthday

Tomorrow is Maurice Sendak's 81st birthday. Truthfully, I've been feeling as excited for it as I remember feeling for my eighth birthday. Or something like that. But! I am very excited for it.

It's the big reason for Terrible Yellow Eyes; beyond just being a place where I (and friends) can post paintings that express my (our) love of the book, it's really a giant, digital birthday card for Mr. Sendak.

I have a friend whose Creative Director also happens to be Mr. Sendak's own art director and he's offered to pass the site along. This was some terribly exciting information for me to contain.

So, that all being said, tomorrow we'll have a special Sendak birthday post over on Terrible Yellow Eyes. And we've got some big guns tomorrow -- I'm just ridiculously pleased to be able to post a contribution by one of my personal heroes, Peter deSeve.

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Well, again, so as to not abandon my blog while I focus on Terrible Yellow Eyes, I am posting the preliminary work for the new piece posted over there.



Check out TYE tommorrow to see the final painting!

Terrible Yellow Eyes - Chalk Thing

A while ago I found a little piece of blue chalk. I brought it home and drew on the driveway with it.


Erin ended up getting me a whole little tub of sidewalk chalk but then fall came and winter came and I never really used it.

Then a couple weekends ago we were babysitting my nephew and playing outside. I had just cleaned out the garage that day and rediscovered the chalk. A perfect storm for monster drawing on the driveway. I'd like to think I used the time in between ventures to adapt and improve my methods :

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Truthfully, I've been so busy at work and there's been so much going on I wasn't able to get together the piece I meant to for Terrible Yellow Eyes today. So, one again with speed in mind and taking up chalk in hand, I set forth to render my contribution in the very inconstant, temporary, and unenduring medium of sidewalk chalk. Behold, my final piece :

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Click over to check out all the amazing invited artist contributions today!!!

Terrible Yellow Eyes - preliminary work : Summer

Again, so as to not abandon my blog while I focus on Terrible Yellow Eyes, I am posting the preliminary work for the new piece posted over there.


First off, I started with this doodled idea :



From there, I went and made this rough, a little tighter version of the above doodle.


From there I went on to do the final drawing.


Click over to the see the final painting!

Terrible Yellow Eyes - preliminary work : Water Thing

Again, so as to not abandon my blog while I focus on Terrible Yellow Eyes, I am posting the preliminary work for the new piece posted over there.

Thumbnail.

Original watercolor and drawing.

First stage of the digital work :
Click over to see the final!

Terrible Yellow Eyes - preliminary work : Shadows

Again, so as to not abandon my blog while I focus on Terrible Yellow Eyes, I am posting the preliminary work for the new piece posted over there.

Drawing with a little digital value.

Figuring the shadows in photoshop.

Click over to see the final!

Terrible Yellow Eyes - preliminary work

I want to be sure that my blog is not abandoned while I focus on Terrible Yellow Eyes for the next couple weeks. So, what I'll be doing is posting the work/studies here and the finals over there.

For starters, here's the drawing and thumbnail for the first moonlit parade I posted :

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"Almost Over a Year"

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See more at Sendak tribute art at
www.terribleyelloweyes.com !