Comments on: Earle of the land of Imagination

Earle of the land of Imagination

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:35:15 -0800

4 Artists Paint 1 Tree, a segment from Disneyland included on the recent DVD release of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty, features the artistic process of one of my favorite painters and cartoon modernists, Eyvind Earle. If you've seen Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, Paul Bunyan or Peter Pan, you're familiar with the fantastical and brilliant landscapes he produces. His paintings show a particular fondness for Big Sur and Central Cali fornia.

By: nervousfritz

nervousfritz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:25:01 -0800

here's a company selling some greeting cards with his artwork.

By: Danf

Danf — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:44:33 -0800

Nice post. Central and Southern California have a unique light. Earle seems to know that.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:21:15 -0800

Thank god that's not another 2 girls 1 cup parody. I was bracing for it.

By: ikahime

ikahime — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:29:37 -0800

I grew up in one of Eyvind Earle's more frequent haunts, the Santa Ynez Valley. There's a gallery there in Los Olivos that often carries his stuff. If you have a chance to see any of it in person - DO. These web reproductions are a pale comparison to the real thing, especially this one. The serigraphs really have an amazing 3-dimensional, hyper-real quality. There is also a big coffee table book of his work out there that has some wonderful reproductions, if you can afford it, not to mention a travelogue - young artist bike across America in search of a vision...

By: dpcoffin

dpcoffin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:23:39 -0800

Wonderful; thanks! EE's my number-1 guilty-pleasure painter-idol. Nobody I know of delivers such a high-octane ride to NeverLand... 200-proof; he leaves me drunk for days.