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“My kids are my two little muses. Whenever I can create art for them, about something that they love and we share together as a family, I’m all about it. Like any parent of small children, we find ourselves as adults, watching way more cartoons than we ever thought we would. But, for me as a consumer of all things visual, taking a fresh look at many of the earlier Disney films has been a blast of inspiration.

For this piece, I took inspiration from an artist I only recently discovered after watchingSleeping Beauty with more mature eyes- Eyvind Earle. Earle was the artistic director forSleeping Beauty, creating lush and incredibly beautiful environments that were uniquely his in style. I wanted to create an homage to his work, but marry it to one of my kids’ other loves, the work of Hayao Miyazaki.

This Earle/Miyazaki mashup is my humble tribute to two of my favorite artists.