ONE , ひとつ - Dan McHale

Dan McHale created an awesome homage piece.


Title: Tiger and Moon (after Hokusai)
Dimensions 11" x 14"
Acrylic on board

Dan McHale is an animator at Maverix Studios

http://web.me.com/danmchale/Site/Dan_McHale_Portfolio.html

ONE , ひとつ, Enrico Casarosa

This tale tell beautiful piece is titled: 金魚-Kingyo
and is in pencil and watercolor

Size: 11"x14"

 " Kingyo : I love to draw japanese streets with strange characters in them, this is taken from a photo I took in Gyon, Kyoto. A fox, a badger and a kappa are mourning over a little dead goldfish."- Enrico


Enrico Casarosa was born and raised in Genoa, Italy in the early 70s. After a couple of years at the University of Engineering spent mostly doodling during classes, Enrico found his calling and moved to Milan to attend Illustration courses at the European Institute of Design. In 1994 he moved to the US to pursue studies in animation and illustration. He studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He, somewhat proudly, never finished a major at any of the colleges he attended.
Enrico started his career in animation in New York City working for several TV Animation studios and projects in different capacities. He then landed a position at Blue Sky Studios, storyboarding for 20th Century Fox’s ICE AGE.
Enrico moved to San Francisco in 2001 where he’s been since working at Pixar Animation Studios as a story artist on movies like Ratatouille, Up and Cars2. In his free time he has drawn comics, made art books and started an international drawing Marathon event: SketchCrawl.

Visit his site for more information
http://enricocasarosa.com
http://sketchcrawl.com

ONE , ひとつ - Yoriko Ito

The title for this beautiful piece is  " Prayer for the hope"

Size 11.5x 15
Medium Water color, and gouache, silver flake, ink on watercolor paper

-"Thinking the girl, I read the article who lost her parents for the Tsunami, 10 years old girl is survived  with her grandma. Her mother was 9 month pregnant.The article said she met the body of her parents and after their funeral she never show her tears again told by her grandma."- Yoriko

Yoriko Ito is originally from Japan. 
She lives in California and has been working in the animated  feature film industry over the past 15 years in companies such as Dreamworks , PDI &  is currently working as a visual development artist at CinderBiter.  
She has also published 5 children's books in US.
http://yorikoito.com/

ONE , ひとつ - Mari Inukai

Mari Inukai contributed this charming flight of fancy!

TOROTOROMARILLAZ II-UMI WO KOETE OIL ON LINEN CANVAS 11''X14''

Mari Inukai was born in Nagoya, Japan. In 1995, Mari came to the US to pursue her studies in art. She first attended Santa Monica Community College (Mentor program), then Associates in Art, Sherman Oaks, CA and finally California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, where she recieved her BFA in Character Animation in 2004. Her professional works include Nickelodeon, New York, Nylon Motion Inc., LA, Oishii Productions, LA, and NGTV, LA. Her short animated film, Blue and Orange, has been an official selection at numerous national and international film festivalss including the Sundance Film Festival 2003, and was the Japanese Grand Prix winner at the Short Shorts Film Festival EXPO 2005. Besides her animation works, Mari regularly exhibits her paintings and drawings, designs clothes, ceramic toy figurines, and other fun products. She lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Sena.

http://www.mariinukai.com/

ONE , ひとつ Jamie Baker

This fun and awesome Colour Pencil on Canson Paper piece is titled "Jet-Kid ♥ Hola-Gato"
and measures 9x12 (16x20 in Frame)

-" In trying to do a piece for a show that honours Japan, I started out by thinking of all my favourite Japanese cartoon characters, which is where my love of Japanese culture began (Cartoons is where my love of America began too, incidentally). After a few days of doodling I ended up with this image; MY version of two Japanese Cartoon icons, at the beginning of a beautiful relationship." - James Baker




JAMES BAKER was raised in Australia but now lives in San Francisco, where he is a Freelance Storyboard artist working in Animation (clients include Pixar, LAIKA, SONY and ILM).

http://www.James-baker.com

ONE , ひとつ Jackson Dryden

Title: Floating Blossom

Size: 12.5"x12.5"

Medium: Ink and gouache

Jackson is currently working at CinderBiter as a junior illustrator. 

 

www.jacksondryden.blogspot.com

ONE , ひとつ Soosa Kim

Title: 
“Together”

Medium: Oil
Size: 14”x14”

-“Together...

walk, smile, touch
sun still high.
we go together."-









Soosa Kim is this crazy Japanese artist friend of mine.
He works for Namco as a concept/CG artist.
He’s the man with stories. Anyone who knows him would know what I mean.
Next time you go out with him, ask him about his Yakuza experience and the stories from his male host days. I heard his stories  many times but I still laugh my head off when I hear them.

The poetic story attached to his work , reflecting his fun and interesting personality  will suck you in to his world!
http://www.simplestroke.com/wp/?p=550

ONE , ひとつ Ronnie Del Carmen

This amazing  -very touching -Story master Ronnie del Carmen piece is approx

8"x 10"
(11" x 14" framed ) 

Medium: Gouache
Title: "Tearful Alice in waves"




























-"I attended the grand Mary Blair show in Japan last year. It was a pilgrimage of the faithful.

I was enraptured all over again. But even better it was curated and collected in Japan.
Japan is a very special place for me personally.
In that same trip we also went to Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Seas. Spectacular.  And yet throughout that trip all I wanted to do was to be on the streets of Tokyo and meet the people, visit friends and see the neighborhoods again.
Japan is my Disneyland. I wish for all to be well and a swift recovery." -Ronnie

Ronnie del Carmen is currently working for Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville.  Prior to that he's worked at Dreamworks and Warner Bros.

He self-publishes his own comic book, Paper Biscuit.

He is maintained by his wife and kids and is not allowed too much peanut butter.

http://www.ronniedelcarmen.com/

ONE , ひとつ Noah Klocek

Noah Klocek, is currently working as Art Director at Pixar animation studios
This cheerful & beautiful piece is titled "Jumping Frog of Calaveras and i County"

6"x6" in Pastel

The piece was inspired by Mark Twains short story, and is titled

"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
http://imageblock.blogspot.com/

ONE , ひとつ video

"One" / Artists Help Japan Event Promotional Video from Curio on Vimeo.

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LOCATION
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San Francisco, CA 94115
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APRIL 2, 2011
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