Kent Melton

George

2012-02-16T15:03:00.000-08:00

My sketch of the stylish artist George Hayns. As Head of Puppet Fabrication at Laika she was my boss while sculpting on Coraline and ParaNorman.

Iris

2011-08-16T09:56:00.000-07:00

My career as a sculptor began in the 1980s taking commissions from an art gallery that specialized in woodcarvings. Carving wood was kind of like training for clay sculpting while wearing wrist weights.

Dude

2011-07-08T13:13:00.001-07:00

Chillin' by the lake showin' off some new ink.

Derby

2011-07-08T11:52:00.001-07:00

A sketch that I sculpted and painted yesterday. It's always interesting to just let go and learn from the happy accidents that occur when working fast.

I was inspired to paint her skin similar to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's eighteenth-century Neapolitan Christmas tree angels.

The Sculptor

2011-06-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

I was asked to supply a photograph of myself for the MoMA Pixar : 20 Years of Animation exhibit in 2005. I thought that it would be fun to sculpt a self portrait and submit a photo of it instead.

Vampire School

2011-06-19T09:36:00.000-07:00

Dad!

2011-04-19T12:07:00.000-07:00

Tempus fugit! Here's a caricature sketch of my daughter Nellie that I painted when she was six.

Childhood

2011-03-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

When I was thirteen my Aunt Nancy worked at a big printing company and would sometimes bring me large scraps of paper. I didn't have any real art supplies so I would draw with my dad's ballpoint pens. I loved drawing... but not the drawings, so when I was finished I would always throw them away. When my mom saw this dragon she liked it well enough to rescue it from the trash and even enter it in a community art contest four years later. I always hated games and contests and so my parents had to force me to go and collect the first prize. I remember being completely embarrassed by what to me was now this "little kid" drawing. I was by then an adult high school student after all. I must admit that I was thrilled though when I found out about the $50.00 worth of art supplies that were part of my winnings. We didn't have art classes at our school and I remember carefully trying to figure out how they all worked. I always wanted to use them sparingly so that they might last me until I was old enough to buy more.

This is one of only a few surviving pieces of my childhood art found stored away in a box that my mother had saved for me until she passed away in 2002.

Sir Great Blue Heron Esq.

2010-12-04T14:12:00.000-08:00

Inspired by African masks

2010-11-12T17:19:00.000-08:00

Scissors

2010-10-05T11:39:00.000-07:00

Jackalope

2010-06-01T12:38:00.000-07:00

Artist & Muse

2010-06-01T11:16:00.000-07:00

The Silent

2010-06-01T09:36:00.000-07:00

Empty Locket

2010-06-01T07:44:00.000-07:00

This painting is designed to be mounted on the ceiling.

Temptation

2010-05-26T18:30:00.000-07:00