Thursday, May 6, 2010

Death Valley Sketch

I finally found a couple of my paintings from the Prince of Egypt Background Department painting trip to Death Valley. Here's the best one...

We were painting in the middle of a large patch of sand dunes, when the wind started blowing. It whipped up the sand into a mini sandstorm. The sand went everywhere and got into everything...including our paint. If you run your hand across it, the painting feels like sandpaper. It finally got so bad that we all ended up wearing out sweatshirts around our faces to keep the sand out of our eyes. We looked like Bedouins.

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22 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM

    Gorgeous! Big fan of your work, there are a bunch of your matte paintings on a computer at Columbia College Chicago, they blew me away.

    Keep posting work, it's inspiring!

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  2. AnonymousMay 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM

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  3. UnknownMay 8, 2010 at 7:22 PM

    Ahh... I've carried loads of camera equipment over those dunes - torture!

    It is so beautiful though - nice sketch!

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  4. jean-luc SERRANOMay 9, 2010 at 9:40 AM

    Hello Monsieur:

    Sweet memories to my eyes.
    Not only because POE was an amazing experience for that little french artist who came to California to work on that movie, but also because Death Valley was probably my first and most awesome experience of the desert.
    (Sahara is great too...)
    JLuc

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  5. VikramMay 10, 2010 at 8:05 AM

    Fantastic.....I can feel the sand on it.

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  6. Jason ScheierMay 10, 2010 at 9:21 AM

    Paul,

    What an amazing story and sketch! :) Love the subtle shadow transitions and composition. :)

    Thanks for always inspiring.

    Jason

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  7. A. RiabovitchevMay 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM

    Beautiful painting!:o)

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  8. Marcelo VignaliMay 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM

    Someone has got to have a picture of your guys painting!

    Great job here Paul.

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  9. AnonymousMay 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM

    It's breathtakingly beautiful.

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  10. CarolynMay 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM

    Your work is so amazing! I am an artist in college right now, and I would love for you to check out my stuff/comment/follow. Any input is appreciated :)
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  11. PeterMay 21, 2010 at 2:46 AM

    Funny that you mention it. I have been there just a few weeks ago and it is an amazing place. The light of course is very different from Egypt. I will never forget the first time I saw you color-keys in the Prince of Egypt book on top of each page. I learned so much...
    thnx 4 sharing, Peter

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  12. GraciaJune 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM

    beautiful in that amazing loose style! I love it! :)

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  14. Clipping Path ServiceMarch 27, 2015 at 4:12 AM

    Lovely & as well as scarey , because its death Vally after all. :)

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  15. AnonymousJune 5, 2015 at 11:39 PM

    Such a excellent and beautiful work. I love to art. Thank for sharing.

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    Wonderful art!! I love so much. I adore your work. Thanks for sharing.

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    Wonderful work!! It make me impressed. Thanks for sharing.

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    It is a fabulous info-graphic submission.It stuck on my heart.

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