tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40691590087886635412024-03-14T02:17:16.972-04:00Trish BabblesMy blog where I discuss my art, pop culture, and other stuff.Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comBlogger861125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-13256589407335749312023-09-06T00:00:00.043-04:002023-09-06T00:00:00.161-04:00Vintage Paleoart: Rien Poortvliet's Journey to the Ice AgeMany of us probably know Rien Poortvliet for Gnomes, which is an undisputed fantasy/fantasy illustration/speculative biology(?)/well, spec-bio-adjacent masterpiece. But he had many other beautiful books to his credit and among them, surprisingly, is a work of Paleoart:
Journey to the Ice Age, published in English in 1994 by Harry N. Abrams is every bit as beautifully crafted as&Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-22179509203381291632023-08-30T00:00:00.000-04:002023-08-30T00:00:00.154-04:00Sketches from "Nature: Dogs in the Wild" This was a really good multipart episode because it focused on rarer, lesser-known canines.
Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-63098926760163302102023-08-23T00:00:00.023-04:002023-08-23T00:00:00.147-04:00Disney's Animal Kingdom 2023 Sketches and Trip Report!Earlier this year, my family and I went to Walt Disney World. Here are some thoughts.The Flower and Garden Festival was lovely as usual. We got to ride on everything we'd wanted to experience. The weather was perfect; we even got to float in the pool more often that I'd expected. And the new-to-me Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was a blast! A few Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-39860172436797920072023-08-16T00:00:00.041-04:002023-08-16T00:00:00.162-04:00Sketching from Nature - "The Elephant and the Termite"I promised you charismatic megafauna didn't I? You can't get more charismatic than elephants; I honestly don't know what we humans did to deserve living alongside them.
And this episode helped me get right into my next Sketchbook! I just happened to pop into a Five Below for the first time ever and it turns out they have a good selection of art supplies. I got a really nice, Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-25107811201836184722023-08-09T00:00:00.018-04:002023-08-09T00:00:00.141-04:00Sketching from "Nature" - "The Alps" and "Scotland's Wild Heart"I have a pair of very beautiful episodes this week. First up is "The Alps, Winter's Fortress". You'll notice in the pages with the Chamois, I wasn't kidding when I said this Sketchbook was handmade and likely one of a kind. A beautiful home for my silly drawings.
"Scotland's Wild Heart" is another particularly beautiful episode - and I went ahead and drew some friends from Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-53238582671322738632023-08-02T00:00:00.045-04:002023-08-02T00:00:00.168-04:00Sketching from "Nature" - "Woodpeckers" and "The Egg"I of course like the episodes of "Nature" that cover the big famous Charismatic Megafauna (and I happen have an episode like that coming up for you later). But I LOVE the episodes that focus on the little guys; especially animals I think I know by heart. The delightfully entitled "Woodpeckers, the Hole Story" is just such an episode. Turns out our little treekeeper dinosaur Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-9087885208785700132023-07-26T00:00:00.030-04:002023-07-26T00:00:00.148-04:00Sketching from "Nature" - "Santa's Wild Home" Happy Christmas in July! As you know, I enjoy sketching from nature documentaries and I have a big backlog of sketches from "Nature" episodes to share here. Today, we're going to Lapland in these sketches from... last Christmas. Yikes.These and the next few batches of sketches are from a nice little handmade Sketchbook I got at a New Agey store ages ago. I'd love to Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-88466040029744178232023-07-19T00:00:00.028-04:002023-07-19T00:00:00.139-04:00Ye Olde Traditional National Dog Show Sketches! So. It's been a while. I'm going to ignore that and just try to jump right back in. I can't think of a better way to do this than with the good old National Dog Show.
Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-88497835383408147122022-04-13T00:00:00.126-04:002022-04-13T00:00:00.187-04:0050 Magical Ears - A Very Rambling WDW 2022 Trip ReportNone of us are ever going to get Harmonious the way the little girl next to me cheering and clapping and singing along Gets it.But Harmonious
is very good! I really liked it! It's not "Reflections of Earth", but what could be? "Reflections of Earth" was a transcendent
experience. They wanted you to be
in awe of the Millennium and the world and maybe even leave you Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-88772544017666738602022-03-30T00:00:00.213-04:002022-04-04T21:52:35.273-04:00More Art and Thoughts From Around WDW Okay, this post was originally going to be The Trip Report but as soon as I started writing that, it turned out to deserve a whole blog of it's own. So look forward to that next week (Edit: Sorry, make that NEXT next week. Probably. I hope.) Meanwhile, more sketches and thoughts from Animal Kingdom park, the Coral Reef restaurant, and around the Beach Club poolsTrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-69408751730777530472022-03-23T00:00:00.089-04:002022-03-23T00:00:00.231-04:002022 Animal Kingdom Sketches!We went to Disney World earlier this month! It was wild! I may do a brief trip report next post but for now, we had a lot of fun. And as is tradition, my drawings of the residents of Disney's Animal Kingdom:
I got to watch the Great Argus Pheasant "Peacocking" in real life right in front of me and I'm not even kidding, this was one of the coolest things I got to experience on Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-72651239944759404982022-03-09T00:00:00.000-05:002022-03-09T00:00:00.179-05:00Sketching from "Nature: Season of the Ospreys"This was a really good episode. Almost as good as "My Life as a Turkey". Almost.
Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-46616549251528942162022-03-02T00:00:00.012-05:002022-03-02T00:00:00.504-05:00My Botober Shenanigans! The older I get, the less inclined I am to do daily drawing challenges. But it turns out if they're funny, I cannot resist. Thus, Botober! Created by Janelle Shane, who asked a neural net to create a set of drawing prompts and wound up with this:
Because I so dearly love it when humans play along when computers ask for silly things, I have generated drawing prompts for #Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-28239819891164488622022-02-23T00:00:00.060-05:002022-02-23T00:00:00.242-05:00"Life is a Kumquat!" - Let's watch the Grand Opening of Walt Disney World!You didn't think I'd head down to the 50'th Anniversary Celebration of Walt Disney World without sharing a vintage Disney Parks special did you? Well strap in, because what better special to watch for the anniversary of Walt Disney World than the Grand Opening of Walt Disney World?
I love this. It's not as insane as the Tenth Anniversary special (what could be?) but it is very close.Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-50948705927990754072022-02-16T00:00:00.033-05:002022-02-16T00:00:00.195-05:00Sketching from "Nature: Big Bend" My New Year's Resolution is to exercise every other day and sketch every OTHER other day. If that makes sense? Anyway, here are sketches I drew while watching the very beautiful "Nature" episode "Big Bend, The Wild Frontier of Texas".
I drew these sketches (as well as the National Dog Show sketches and all the Botober misadventures) in my Arteza Watercolor Sketchbook.&Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-58589120997823015362021-12-15T06:00:00.014-05:002021-12-15T06:00:00.200-05:002021 National Dog Show Sketches! As is of course tradition!
Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-90913702122843339102021-09-29T00:00:00.065-04:002021-09-29T00:00:00.226-04:00A Veritable Herd of Animated Dinosaurs! As you may have guessed, I like dinosaurs a lot. I like animation a lot. And I love animated dinosaurs. So the past couple of weeks have been awesome in that respect. Firstly, the first episode of David James Armsby's "Dinosauria" is out and it is beautiful!
Armsby also posted this incredible making-of video and I don't know what impresses me more: the cancelled "All Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-10713383069849502422021-09-22T00:00:00.013-04:002021-09-22T00:00:00.201-04:00"Gotta Catch 'Em All": My Adventures With the "Seek" AppIt was around the time I was focusing my smartphone's camera on the fly swimming in my glass of wine that I realized I might have a problem. "What are you doing, Trish?" a part of my brain screamed at the rest, "That bug is going to fall in and contaminate your drink! What if you swallow it?"So I fished the little fellow out and was very impressed when "Seek" helpfully identified the Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-55174567611575190282021-09-15T00:00:00.089-04:002021-09-25T15:01:03.378-04:00Thoughts - But Also Mostly Sketches - From TetZoom 2021So TetZoom 2021, which occurred about a week ago and ran all day and into the night, was an absolute blast! This was the second ever TetZoo Convention I've ever been able to attend and I really really hope they keep the online/livestream portion of the show. Handy Sketchbook on my knee, I took a lot of notes on the presentations and here they are, though considerably cleaned up: Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-72864329729002779882021-09-01T00:00:00.198-04:002021-09-01T00:00:00.209-04:00In Which we meet the Guardians of the SeedsIt was brutally hot on the day we went to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens to meet the Trolls. I will admit, I overexerted myself walking in the heat. But if you'll recall, last time I visited the Gardens, it was dreary and raining (Early Blog Installment Weirdness disclaimer). I explored all over the northeastern side of the Gardens and it was well worth it. Not Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-35428391487075343792021-08-25T01:00:00.001-04:002021-08-25T01:00:00.222-04:00Let's Watch the Teaser for "Dinosauria"So this looks incredible:
Animator David James Armsby loves dinosaurs and has been hard at work on a series of five short films about life in Cretaceous North America. And so far they look amazing. I can't wait to see this in full!
Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-38968265876853899822021-08-18T01:00:00.089-04:002021-08-18T01:00:00.205-04:00On the Deleted Scenes from "The Land Before Time" I promised you animation and dinosaurs, didn't I?
That nearly a million dollars worth of content was deleted from the original "Land Before Time" is one of the greatest legends of that small but significant border town between paleoart and animation where I live. Exactly what that content would have looked like was a big mystery, but this nice brief documentary from the channel Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-1648933200417248812021-08-11T00:00:00.198-04:002021-08-11T10:53:16.890-04:00"Positive Attitude Reflects Todays Youth" - Let's Watch "The Party In Concert"Goodness, I can't wait to experience (vicariously, through Disney Blog People who can actually afford this thing) the Galactic Starcruiser Interactive Experience can you? In the meantime, let's travel back to the early days of Disney Hollywood Studios, especially for those of you who were longing for a weird vintage Disney special the past few weeks. The audio quality on this one is kind ofTrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-68895463825143755362021-08-04T00:00:00.000-04:002021-08-04T00:00:00.210-04:00Let's Watch "A&E's Dinosaur: The Tale of a Feather"Get a drink for this one.
Being the final episode on a series-length dinosaur documentary is never a fun time. Because this is The Extinction Episode -- mostly.Because as the title "Tale of a Feather" suggests, it's also about the evolution of birds from POSSIBLY MAYBE the smallish theropod dinosaurs. Remember, it's 1991 and this is still a pretty outrageous theory. It's also Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069159008788663541.post-45697538167124898562021-07-28T07:00:00.029-04:002021-07-28T16:37:27.960-04:00Let's Watch "A&E's Dinosaur: The Tale of an Egg"
"The Tale of an Egg" turns our focus to dinosaur life-cycles and behavior. Baby-rearing, migrating, fighting, and feeding. All the things that are fun to speculate and fun to illustrate/animate/puppet. It's the most kid-heavy episode as well, which makes it a lot of fun.Somebody start a band based around David Weishampel's Parasaurolophus trumpet already.Next time: brace Trishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.com