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Typical Applewood Studio Storyboard Wall
Current project:
ISLAND OF THE SIX-TOED CATS
(If a picture is worth a thousand words, it follows that a thousand pictures can say anything a million times better? Hey, do the math)
Current project:
ISLAND OF THE SIX-TOED CATS
(The harbormaster)
Current project:
ISLAND OF THE SIX-TOED CATS
(One pretty tough ratty)
Current project:
ISLAND OF THE SIX-TOED CATS
(A dream of catnip mice)
Current project:
ISLAND OF THE SIX-TOED CATS
(After the hurricane)
APPLEWOOD STUDIO MODEL
(His name is Leanie. Cute, eh? Unfortunately, he's a biter-- modeling will do that)
YIKES!
(Same cat, different eyes....)
WALLFLOWER
(rough storyboard in production/project slated for 2020)
CATCHING Z'S
(The Cat Caught the Zzzzs, Manzano Day School)
(More cats!)
HAT CAT
(More and more cats...)
THE APPLEWOOD STUDIO MASCOT
(The face on our business card)
SING A SONG OF SIX PENCE
(Yes, even more cats...)
The Maid was in the Garden from,
SING A SONG OF SIX PENCE
(Sensing a cat theme, yet?)
MRS. EMU
(We encountered the formidable Mrs. Emu during the modeling cattle call for "the Six-pence Gig." She did not land the blackbird job)
WELCOME SIGN
(erected after meeting Mrs. Emu)
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PRIEST
(Detail from a spread from the COMPASS HEART project, slated for 2019)
BROKEN BITS OF WORDS
(Spread from the children's book,
(From BABA, written and illustrated by Tanya Shpakow: published by Alfred A.Knopf, inc.)
BABA
(written and illustrated by Tanya Shpakow, published by Alfred A. Knopf, inc.)
ON THE WAY TO CHRISTMAS
(Written and illustrated by Tanya Shpakow, published by Alfred A. Knopf, inc.)
ON THE WAY TO CHRISTMAS
"I don't want this yucky old bear!"
(Written and illustrated by Tanya Shpakow, published by Alfred A. Knopf, inc.)
ON THE WAY TO CHRISTMAS
Spread: How did this bear get himself stuck in a snowbank? (detail)
(Written and illustrated by Tanya Shpakow, published byAlfred A. Knopf, inc
FELAN
Applewood's Most Versatile Dawg-model
The model for Slobberchops character in the project with the working title: CINDERELLA WEARS GLASSES, A STORY OF BLIND LOVE)
SLOBBERCHOPS
PRINCE PUFFYPANTS
BAD TOOTH
BEANIE
(Photoshop has altered Beanie's image from this into the the yarn eating bear image coming up next in the queue.
YARN EATER
OLD DONNA
NINE KNITTERS
(From the counting book project BEDTIME DOZEN)
TWO AT LARGE
(From counting book project, BEDTIME DOZEN)
Colored Pencil
THE SCARLET LETTER
written by Nathaniel Hawthorne (book jacket) Norton Critical Editions/
WW Norton & Company
TANYA SHPAKOW
(playing outside of the Applewood Studio in Utah)
May 18, 2018