Wow, so in three days $100, $200, and $500 dollar tickets to the charity auction at Pixar have already sold out! There’s still time to snag tickets to the event, but seems like you’ll have to be quick. $300 tickets are all that are left and I don’t know how many. Click here for the site to get your tickets. All proceeds go to charity!
Also, the Totoro Forest Project has put up a blog to keep everyone updated.
Tickets are are sale today for the big auction at Pixar! Check below for the message from Dice Tsutsumi, Pixar art director and the organizer of this special event!
Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held here at Pixar on September 6th. Finally we are ready to start selling these online! The first pre-sale will start monday 8/11 at 10am. Here’s the options available - Please note that all tickets include the stunning Art of Totoro Forest Book (worth $40)
Forest Friend - $100 regular admission + book.
Forest Sponsor - $200 includes admission + book + signed limited edition print
Forest Champion - $300 includes middle VIP live auction seating + book + signed limited edition print + gift certificate to Blowfish Sushi
Forest Hero - $500 includes front VIP live auction seating + book + an original drawing by one of the artists
Tickets will go on sale at this LINK exactly at 10AM Monday! We have a rather limited numbers of tickets so we suggest acting quickly if you want to be part of this event. Remember many of the donating artists will be in attendance, this will be a night to remember!! All the “Totoro inspired” art is up for preview at TotoroForestProject.org. All proceed will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation!! Let me know if you have any questions.
Woo, finally got around to updating my website with some new work! Feel free to poke around in the Concept & Story section where there is quite a bit of newer work up. Some of it you may have seen on this blog, some you have not.
I’ve also finally added some sculptures to the heretofore empty Sculpture section, and changed Books so that it reflects the upcoming release of the Totoro Forest Project publication. Enjoy!
I only managed to get three books at Comicon, but since things are pretty pricey at Stuart Ng books, this was my limit!
Picked up a book of Henry Yan’s beautiful figure drawings. Henry is an instructor here in SF at the Academy of Art, and his figure work is particularly striking to me because of the energy and dynamic quality he is able to capture, while keeping everything loose and playful. Really gorgeous stuff.
Also finally picked up two books of Toppi’s work. My colleague Brian O’Connell introduced me to Toppi a few years ago, and I was stunned by his linework, composition, use of silhouette, negative space, and looseness. The texture and patterns he incorporates are incredibly appealing and rich. I’ve been salivating over picking up some of his work ever since. There are definite influences of Gustav Klimt, and I see quite a bit of Barron Storey and Bill Sienkiewicz in there as well. The copy in both books is entirely in French, however, and I have a lot of brushing up to do to help me get through it!
Whew! Finally updated to the newer version of Wordpress. It’s always a bit harrowing doing an update since I usually end up trying to fix some random part that gets broken along the way. But at least everything seems to be up and running smoothly. Please let me know if you notice something a little off. Should be getting some posts up soon!
