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Mickey Mouse in PLANE CRAZYby ~tOkKa

Traditional Art / Paintings / Pop Art

' Mickey Mouse in PLANE CRAZY ' (( 1997 ))

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-->> ..never posted anywhere, til' now.

This was an old design class exercise from 1997. The project was.. i believe to reinterpret, recreate, or create a movie poster.

My favourite Mickey Mouse short of all time, "Plane Crazy" was the film i chose for the project. I don't recall why oils was chosen to create this piece.

The first Mickey cartoon ever made i'd loved since i was small. This short also started my facination with animation icon Ub Iwerks.

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" Mickey tries to emulate his hero, Charles Lindberg, and woo Minnie with his own, homemade airplane .."

..a much more rascally than he is today. And the short to me is one of the most insane things i'd ever seen, and much crazier than the old **Alice toons .. and was before my awareness of Disney's original ***Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey's predecessor.

My inexperience with the oils really shows as they were applied directly to the chip-board canvas withour priming it at all.

Tho' this was one of my earliest attempts at using oil paint. I will try to save the piece the best i can before it decays.

I do recall wanting really to show Mickey's roguish personality in the piece and that's why he's doing a “ Lucky Lindy ” impersonation.

Poor Minnie is holding on for dear life. The little Red Bird getting thrown off by the plane was a take on a small character i still use to this day.

Early on, Mickey was animated with a minimum of fingers ( usually only three or so or just showing him using his circular fists ) to save on supplies and on time while animating. Not drawing an extra digit on his hand really did make a difference on how fast the film was produced. And now he's 80 ..

but who's counting ?!

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"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. "

-- Mickey Mouse

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..oils on chip board approx. 19 1/2 " x 22 " .

- Spring 1997, revised 18 November 2008

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