I never saw so many Eyvind Earle paintings in one go...Thanks for this video! I viewed Sleeping Beauty twice, as a child and as an adult. It was only the second time that I realized that a studio background stylist had saved a prestigious 6 million dollar animation movie from becoming a box office fail, from being branded as Disney's most boring movie. Even the humor in SB is lackluster. My favorite Earle landscapes are his yellow hills with sparse trees and bushes and cattle grazing, painted from a bird eye's view. He made quite a few variations of these. The size of cows or horses is diminished, they are dominated by their own, elongated shadows from the setting (or rising) sun. This increases the already very wide perspective of these landscapes enormously. Wonderful! And so is his use of colors. Eye candy! Look up his color key paintings for Sleeping Beauty. He made so many, that I can tell the whole fairy tale story in color key paintings alone (which I did in a blog post). Their styling and coloring are amazing. Mary Blair was an excellent stylist too, but when Walt saw Eyvind's work, he sent her home... Indeed, she didn't produce a single color key for Sleeping Beauty...nor did any of the other studio artists. Eyvind was the absolute boss of the studio, in those days.
@@tomripsin730 Yes, Eyvind was hired by Disney in 1951 and did all the background scenery for Walts films - Sleeping Beauty took ten years to complete, the backgrounds being so detailed. Some of the character animators went Disney to complain, but Walt gave full authority to Eyvind and they adapted.
I never saw so many Eyvind Earle paintings in one go...Thanks for this video!
I viewed Sleeping Beauty twice, as a child and as an adult. It was only the second time that I realized that a studio background stylist had saved a prestigious 6 million dollar animation movie from becoming a box office fail, from being branded as Disney's most boring movie. Even the humor in SB is lackluster.
My favorite Earle landscapes are his yellow hills with sparse trees and bushes and cattle grazing, painted from a bird eye's view. He made quite a few variations of these. The size of cows or horses is diminished, they are dominated by their own, elongated shadows from the setting (or rising) sun. This increases the already very wide perspective of these landscapes enormously. Wonderful! And so is his use of colors. Eye candy!
Look up his color key paintings for Sleeping Beauty. He made so many, that I can tell the whole fairy tale story in color key paintings alone (which I did in a blog post). Their styling and coloring are amazing. Mary Blair was an excellent stylist too, but when Walt saw Eyvind's work, he sent her home...
Indeed, she didn't produce a single color key for Sleeping Beauty...nor did any of the other studio artists. Eyvind was the absolute boss of the studio, in those days.
This is a beautiful video. The art, production. All if it. Love you and Merry Christmas 23
All so brilliant and beautiful. Thank you.
Wow, the best video on TH-cam 👌🏼
Thank you for posting this! ❤
Gorgeous works! Thank you.
Great
Really helpful. Thank you.
Thank you
Genius!
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This is great.Looks like a Disney movie,
i was thinking the same thing. The makers of Sleeping Beauty must've been influenced by this artist.
@@tomripsin730 Yes, Eyvind was hired by Disney in 1951 and did all the background scenery for Walts films - Sleeping Beauty took ten years to complete, the backgrounds being so detailed. Some of the character animators went Disney to complain, but Walt gave full authority to Eyvind and they adapted.
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