Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Background paintings for animated film

Film backgrounds, Rome
Film backgrounds, Ottawa
Film backgrounds, Ottawa
Film backgrounds, Ottawa
Film backgrounds, Ottawa
Film backgrounds, Ottawa
Background paintings, Montreal - New York - Ottawa

Asterix - film backgrounds

Asterix in America - background painting, Hahn Studio Berlin
Asterix background paintings - closeups, Berlin
Panorama background painting for Asterix, Berlin

Monday, March 19, 2012

Background painting for Asterix, Berlin
Background paintings for Asterix, Paris
Background paintings for Asterix, Paris
Tree studies for Asterix

MICHEL GUERIN - Biography

Michel was born in the province of Saintonge, in the south-west of France. He has lived in Canada since 1968. Painting and drawing have always been Michel's passion. Michel attended a private Arts School and the school of Beaux-Arts in France, where he studied illustration, design and sculpture. Although, gaining a great deal of formal experience there, his artistic skills were mostly developed in the field. During his teenage years he designed commercial posters and various illustrations. Later; in the French army, for his national service, he created illustrations for military magazines .
His career in feature animated films began in Montreal ( Canada ) as a Background Artist for "THE LITTLE MERMAID", "THE HAPPY PRINCE", "THE REMARKABLE ROCKKET". Further features credits in Canada and the USA include "RAGGEDY-ANNE AND ANDY" in New York,  "HEAVY METAL", short feature and TV specials like "HIAWATHA", "IMPERIAL OIL" , "THE RACCOONS AND THE LOST STAR", "CHRISTMAS RACCOONS", "THE NEW MISADVENTURES OF ICHABOD CRANE",  "TUKIKI AND HIS SEARCH FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS", "THE LITTLE BROWN BURRO", as well as "THE RACCOONS" series and several commercials and TV spots.

He then relocated to PARIS , France, to develop three feature films as Head of the Background Department . These films included "ASTERIX Vs. CAESAR" , "ASTERIX IN BRITAIN" and "ASTERIX OPERATION GETAFIX". Michel then returned to Canada and worked on "THE NUTCRACKER" feature film, in OTTAWA, Canada.

In 1990, Michel worked as Art Director , on the latest Asterix feature film:
"ASTERIX IN AMERICA"  in BERLIN , Germany, and from 1998 to 2001 he worked on "HEAVY METAL F.A.K.K. 2" in MONTREAL, Canada, and on "GENNARINO IL MASTINO" in ROMA, Italy.

Michel enjoys the outdoors and spends most of his free time hiking in the woods and painting Canadian landscapes, either in water colour, acrylic, or his preferred media of oil on canvas. Currently he also acts as part-time Consulting Professor teaching in Storyboard, layout and Background Art for animated films, at college Boreal, in SUDBURY (Ontario).    
His paintings are available at the ART FOR YOU STUDIO, in Evansville (Ontario) and have been shown and sold by other galleries in Quebec and Ontario .

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Series, Nature's Symphony, paintings

Intermezzo, oil on canvas
 Autumnal Symphony, oil on canvas
Pastoral, oil on canvas
Prelude, oil on canvas
Adagio, oil on canvas
Andante, oil on canvas

Series, paintings

Awakening, Manitoulin Island, oil on canvas
 Julia Bay - Manitoulin Island, oil on canvas
Murphy's Bay - Manitoulin Island, oil on canvas
 November Fog, Julia Bay - Manitoulin Island, oil on canvas
Stormy, Manitoulin Island, oil on canvas

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Series, small paintings

Murphy's Point, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas - (40 x 51 cm)
Storm, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas
Horizon Bay, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas
Pool, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Bachelor - Dawn, Manitoulin Island, oil on canvas
North Shore, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas
 Pond, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas
Misery Bay Point, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas
January, Manitoulin Island - oil on canvas

Drawings

Countryside Journal - 11
A warm day in spring - a hot sizzling day in summer or a smooth day in fall, full of ripeness. These are the days when I grab my sketchbook and the pencil and walk a long exploring walk to discover the perfect place. Then I rest and take it all in - lights and shades, lines and shapes - until I am ready to draw what I see ... I almost could do it with closed eyes ...
Countryside Journal - 10

Countryside Journal - 8, 9
Countryside Journal - 7

Countryside Journal - 5, 6