PAUL LASAINE: Blog

Hey gang, Time is running out to sign up for the Schoolism Live Workshop with Yours Truly on March 14th in beautiful Montreal! That's...

To all my friends, old and new, near and far...Happy holidays. (This one started out simply as painting practice, but it turned into my hol...

Hey gang, I posted a couple new pieces from Puss in Boots on my Portfolio Page the other day. Check it out!

So my wife and daughter were playing Nintendo Wii today, and they had an interesting idea for an upcoming Toy Story installment: They sugges...

Last month, my daughter was in the musical at her elementary school. Due to the school's proximity to several TV and film studios, many ...

Here's a bunch of (mostly) abstract thumbnail sketches. I do tons of these...often on napkins. Usually, they're no bigger than 2 inc...

It's hard not to hear about the horrific events unfolding in Japan. If you've been wondering how you can help, my friend Dice Tsutsu...

Hey, I have a couple pieces in this book! It's a collection of personal artwork by DreamWorks Animation visual development artists. It w...

This was a fun little exercise: two paintings of the same subject ... one traditional; one digital. I painted the traditional one last week ...

This painting goes back a few years. OK, it goes back over 20 years. Way back, when I was an apprentice Matte Painter, my mentor Mike Lloyd ...

Frank Frazetta died today. Never again will the world look so fantastic. Rest in peace Frank.

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

I painted this portrait of my wife a few years back to be used as a prop in one of my many Halloween setups at our house. I was a projected ...

I did this one a few weeks back, but never got around to posting it. I was trying out a new Photoshop brush my friend Dominique Louis came u...

I know, I know...my original plan was to paint one of these a week. Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans...... Anyway, way...

I know...I know...it's been a while since my last post. I've been busy. It comes with having a job...and a family. Also, I haven...

Flowers are really fun to paint. If you've got a good underlying structure, and you make good colors choices, you can be incredibly loos...

My family and I spent a few weeks in Italy last summer. There's so much art there - it's impossible not to be inspired. Of course I ...

Here's another quick Saturday morning painting sketch. This one's based on a photo I took from a helicopter somewhere over New Zeala...

Here's a quick sketch I did in Painter yesterday morning while I was waiting for my family to wake up. Painter's insanely overcompli...

I don't tend to post sketchbook drawings...mostly because they're usually just shorthand notes for paintings, and not worth looking ...

It's been a while. Couldn't sleep this evening, so while surfing the blogs, I came upon a nice painting by Erin Lamoreux where she ...

Last year, my wife bought me a Nintendo DS with the hopes of using it as a digital sketch book. It's been sitting in the box since Decem...

I know it's been a while since I've posted. I've been very busy on a new film at Sony, and all my painting time is spent on stuf...

Ever wish there was a decent pencil brush in Photoshop? You can make one. 1. Start with this brush. It's one of the standard Photoshop b...

OK, this is one of the stranger projects I've worked on. It's a hand painted floor mat. Yes, a floor mat. The idea came from my mot...

(New-and-Improved Version) As promised, here's a tutorial (hopefully the first of many) on some of the ways I use Photoshop's brushe...