Saturday, June 09, 2007

Bill WRAY & CHRIS HITI

Bill Wray put up these two paintings (above and below) on his blog: http://madaboutcartoons.blogspot.com/

The top picture looks like it's from the Ren & Stimpy episode, "Visit to Anthony."


Just to fill out the post how about these black and white pictures from Sam Hiti's site: http://www.samhiti.com/?page=artwork











12 comments:

JohnK said...

The top picture is my dad.

JohnK said...

Oh..and what a great painting!

William said...

Geepers, I was just introducing my daughter to that episode this morning.

Anonymous said...

Wow! That's an amazingly accurate parody of The Great Piggy Bank Robbery!

Kali Fontecchio said...

That is a great painting of John's dad. What does Bill Wray have in common with the other artist you posted- or is was it entirely arbitrary?

Anonymous said...

Jorge stole my thought. Isn't that a beautiful take on the Great Piggy Bank Robbery?

Those of you still in contact with Bill Wray... is the disconnect between Bill and William really that strong? That is, is Bill really that down on his commercial work, in his effort to become a fine artist? Or is the denial more of a practical matter? Or even a bit tongue in cheek.

Tim Biskup doesn't seem to be in such separation from his cartoon past, but his Gallery work doesn't look as different from his cartoon work as Bill's does from "William's".

I'm with Kali. Why exactly did you drop Sam Hiti's work in the same post? Besides it just looking nice, which may have been your reasoning.

If you dig a bit on Sams site, you do see a bit of an animation pedigree there as well.

Did Carl Barks ever sell straight ahead western landscapes, to people who did not know his duck work?

Sean Worsham said...

Great stuff man great stuff. :) I especially love the painting of John's Dad :D

Jenny Lerew said...

Jesus--John's [cartoon] dad looks like the offspring of John Wayne and Raymond Burr!
He must be a large man, alright.
Neat painting.

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Anon: It is a strange combination, I admit.

I haven't seen Chris's comics work but he's done interior illustrations for kids fantasy books like Lemony Snicket and I'll bet they're good. He reminds me of the artist who used to do Ray Bradbury's covers.

Anonymous said...

The croc painting is exceptional too---I never would have thought to use pink and green that way, but it looks perfectly natural.

Anonymous said...

"Did Carl Barks ever sell straight ahead western landscapes, to people who did not know his duck work ?"

Yes he did - but not much. Some examples here : http://www.seriesam.com/barks/art_ndp.html
However I think he was a better comics artist.

The Same Hiti's drawings are fine, there's a great Christian Blutch feeling in it

ryan hughes said...

YES!!!!!! ILOVE VISIT TO ANTHONY!!!! I also LOVE that last picture's randomness and spontenaity!!! TO DAMN BADD,
bill cheated on us by working with CGI i HATE CGI!!!