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are in the park for an evening event and peer for the hundredth time through a quarter inch gap in the blue construction wall and we gasp there it is captured with my iphone the mural s final photo we can just make out a small portion of the art the top of the tree the old familiar coffee cup the sour cream doughnut visible above the foam wall board we jump for joy and i immediately text a photograph of it to everyone we know a week and a half goes by and we don t hear anything anxious i make some calls up to wdi and leave messages heard anything can we go over to the park and see it finally a friend calls me back and the news is horrible the demolition crew on the project were told to remove a wall and remove it they did in the process they uncovered the mural but not having received any official instructions on what to do with it totally destroyed it something about a concern for asbestos in the walls required all pieces to be deposited into biohazard bags and discarded i wish i had a happy ending to this story but i don t it s taken me several months to digest it myself as an artist you go through your whole career hoping to create something beautiful something that lasts and that has an impact on those who experience it the time effort and care that goes into creating something whether for a commercial end or not has a value the mural would have been so easy to save had someone in charge of this project not been so out of touch you could say well so what it s just a restaurant mural of food there are bigger problems in the world yes there are but small losses like this and the attitudes that allow it tend to extend out in a wider arc i know disney values their past even if only to package the past into ways to earn revenue from the most loyal portion of their audience i don t believe that anyone purposefully intended for the mural to be demolished but i believe it happened because no one cared to follow up on it or bothered to put it on the to do list budgets are only assigned to new stuff coming in rarely for the preservation or documentation of old stuff going out the plaza pavilion mural is destined for obscurity and i can t shake my personal feeling that disneyland is a lesser place without it so art lovers i turn to you there s no hope to document a work of art that no one can take a picture of unless pictures were already taken do you remember the pavilion mural were you freaked out by the frog on the cutting board as i was do you have a shot of the mural tucked away in your old vacation slides disney doesn t seem to have any good documentation of it in their official files and all i ve got is this one crummy polaroid note this post is the result of years of searching to find out more information about this artwork and the long wait for the mural to be uncovered and rediscovered now that it s gone this post and the pictures shared are all that i have i hope someone out there has a better image of it or more information on its creation so together we can keep this lost piece of history alive and accounted for follow up to this story added on january 22 2012 posted by kevin kidney at 6 22 pm 46 comments labels public art anaheim destruction disneyland loss stouffer s sunday november 20 2011 how i make a poster paper illustration kevin kidney earlier this year i was hired to create a promotional campaign for a holiday entertainment company using paper sculpture i love christmas and everything about the holidays so i was really excited about this project above is a scene that i put together for a poster people often ask me to show more behind the scenes in making and photographing one of my illustrations so this might be a good time to do it the first thing that i do after talking things over with the client and doodling in my sketch book is the layout a layout is simply my pencil drawings placed in a digital mock up with a bit of shading and value i try to figure everything out during this stage so i won t have problems to fix later for this project i experimented a bit with colors for me personally choosing colors is the most difficult part of the whole thing once i get the go ahead to continue i start building my image i had a very specific idea of how i wanted the holiday village typeface to look with lots of whimsy and beveled edges every part of the picture including the lettering is cut out of colored paper with an x acto knife and assembled with strong tacky glue i like to work very clean so i keep a dampened dishcloth nearby to periodically wipe off my hands and fingers dirt oil or glue will smudge the paper and ruin everything grungy is not my style anyway some of the paper bits are little and the slightest breeze will send them flying off my table like tiny leaves i won t tell you how many times i had to search the floor for santa s eyebrows finally it s all assembled like a miniature theatrical set and carefully lit like one too it s very important the shadows fall where they re supposed to this year i bought an excellent new camera that takes hi def images so conceivably i could create artwork for a freeway billboard if necessary i can fudge details in photoshop later for print work but i strive to keep that to a minimum cg imagery is not as exciting to me and part of the magic of making something look hand made is to avoid over polishing it in the computer afterwards and that s about all there is to it merry christmas everybody posted by kevin kidney at 5 14 pm 25 comments tuesday october 25 2011 peg legged legos we recently discovered the amazing work of henning birkeland a digital artist in norway who specializes in 3d visual effects and animation he also happens to be a wizard with lego bricks henning has built just about everything with them from a back to the future delorean to this familiar guy based on our pirate parrot replica for disney i had a lot of green and orange bricks that i never use so i thought i would try something different i found out that a parrot would be perfect for the colours when searching for reference i found a great model made by kevin kidney jody daily i did a quick model in 3d and converted it to legobricks wow henning it looks fantastic thanks for sharing view more of henning birkeland s work on his website and while you re there be sure to watch his show reel good stuff posted by kevin kidney at 2 30 am 3 comments friday october 21 2011 happy birthday mary blair the indian chief from peter pan 1953 artist mary blair would have been 100 years old today and to join in this week s love fest for her incredible body of work i would like to present a few of my personal favorites each of these pieces whether done in pastel chalk watercolor or ceramic tile display the brilliance of her design and color magic mary blair was awesome background study for the jesusita en chihuahua sequence the three caballeros 1945 you belong to my heart sequence the three caballeros 1945 zandunga sequence from the three caballeros 1945 zandunga sequence from the three caballeros 1945 old saint nick christmas card mermaid lagoon peter pan 1953 a nine tile test for the jules stein eye institute mural 1966 mary blair shares a tandem bicycle ride with her boss in 1941 rio de janeiro happy birthday mary blair and thanks for all the beauty you gave us posted by kevin kidney at 2 48 pm 12 comments wednesday september 21 2011 it s andy anaheim t he original andy anaheim model sheet drawn by the walt disney studio early 1954 of course you know all about andy anaheim right our city s oddly endearing character mascot is featured today on the anaheim historical society s blog we love him and mark my words andy is making a comeback if you just happen to be in anaheim this saturday i ll be hosting a presentation about andy at the anaheim historical society citrus celebration in founders park it ll be old fashioned home towny fun and you can hear about andy and other good stuff on npr in an interview that aired today posted by kevin kidney at 6 08 pm 6 comments monday september 19 2011 ghoulish delight jody and i will be traveling to walt disney world for the resort s 40th anniversary on october 1 and disney asked if we might create something special for a haunted mansion themed auction that takes place the night before on september 30th we decided on a unique interpretation of the hatbox ghost a one of a kind maquette based on artist collin campbell s original painting for the famous 1969 disneyland record the story and song from the haunted mansion for decades old hattie s legend was kept alive for thousands of kids lucky enough to own a copy of this lp with its magnificent full color illustrated book there was and still is something deliciously disturbing and exciting about collin campbell s illustrations and the very best page was the the one that showed a cloaked man whose head disappears from his body and glows hideously from within a hat box as far as we know we ve never seen a three dimensional figure based on campbell s haunted mansion illustrations so this may very well be the first our 8 1 4 tall ghost was cast from my sculpture and then hand painted by jody in campbell s illustrative style with hair fibers added on as a final touch the maquette is displayed on a wooden base made of antique weathered barn wood under a glass bell jar when viewed through the wavy glass the figure takes on a mildly distorted appearance that makes him even more ghostly hope to meet some of you in florida here is where we ll be friday september 30 2011 wdw s contemporary resort signing at the contemporary resort gift shop from 10am 12pm haunted mansion room for 1 more event 6pm to 9pm saturday october 1 2011 wdw s actual 40th anniversary diamond horseshoe in the magic kingdom from 1pm 3pm posted by kevin kidney at 12 28 am 25 comments monday september 05 2011 september song so how was your summer wonderful i hope mine was outstanding this summer jody and i went to a bunch of great parties and threw a couple of really good ones ourselves we took some memorable road trips with friends enjoyed countless bicycle rides on both u s coasts finally landscaped the backyard and still found time to hang out as much as possible with all our neighbors at the anaheim brewery but this doesn t mean we goofed around from may to september we also worked our tails off the soundsational parade opened at disneyland in may and we were part of the promotional hysteria at the beginning as a birthday present from the disney team i got to be a chimney sweep in the parade s premier we debuted new collectibles throughout the summer for disneyland walt disney world and d23 we contributed to the new trader sam s enchanted tiki bar and designed a line of custom drinkware that will appear at sam s sooner or later we built a pirate parrot and now we re tackling an exciting project for tokyo disneyland all in all one of the best summers of my life but one other thing happened this summer that on the surface might seem small but for me is huge i fell in love with the city i live in so did jody anaheim is a uniquely american city with an amazing history though it has always struggled to find an identity of its own except to those who actually live here most people consider anaheim to be synonymous with disneyland but i ve discovered there is much more to this town than that in july i had the unbelievable good fortune of being elected vice president of the anaheim historical society it s a 35 year old organization of enthusiastic folks who help preserve the history public art and significant architecture of the city for future generations anaheim s historical society is especially vital and a fantastic organization to be a part of we re about to have our annual kick off event on saturday september 24th and i sincerely hope everyone reading this will come the citrus celebration in founder s park will be a wonderful little small town event with tours of two historic houses the gigantic living tree that inspired disneyland s swiss family robinson treehouse attraction orange soda vanilla ice cream floats provided by ruby s diner fresh anaheim grown lemonade and presentations on the agricultural era for which orange county is named we re putting a whole lot of effort into this so i hope you can come down and experience an anaheim i ll bet you never knew existed and i hope you ll consider becoming a member of the society as well even if you don t live in anaheim more about anaheim historical society and the citrus celebration here posted by kevin kidney at 3 25 pm 6 comments friday august 19 2011 parting is such sweet sorrow pirate parrot concept art by marc davis marc davis himself with an early version of the pirate parrot animatronic our replica of the final wdw figure for the d23 auction tonight by tonight our little parrot figure will have a new owner and be off on exciting adventures that the rest of us landlubbers can only imagine jody and i became pretty attached to this little guy while we had him in our studio so much so in fact that thursday night we carefully snuck him with us into trader sam s where some surprised folks lifted their lost safaris and shipwrecks in his honor several people took pix which i m sure we ll discover on facebook sooner or later at any rate he s now in the hands of d23 and will go on the auction block at 8pm this evening if you happen to wind up being the lucky bidder jody and i will divulge to you the secret of what s inside the sealed barrel that he stands on update the auction results are in our salty ol parrot sold for 5000 00 worth of solid gold doubloons not too shabby for a bird with only one leg posted by kevin kidney at 11 24 pm 14 comments saturday august 06 2011 art in anaheim sculptor john edward svenson 1970 downtown anaheim home savings near a busy sunlit intersection in anaheim dominated by the sounds of traffic and the occasional air brake hiss of city busses a young child is going for a joy ride with a trio of dolphins his arms outstretched like a rodeo bronc buster the youth seems barely capable of keeping his seat as the creatures slip over and below the waves of an imagined sea plaster presentation model for child on dolphin 10 high john edward svenson s sculpture celebrating the joyful spirit of childhood has enhanced the southwest corner of harbor boulevard and lincoln avenue one mile north of disneyland for over forty years the bronze cast was commissioned for anaheim s home savings of america branch in 1970 to accompany millard sheets brilliant tile mosaic depicting the early years of anaheim history through his association with the sheets studio from the 1950s through the early 1970s svenson produced more than twenty sculptures for home savings and the ahmanson corporation all over southern california 1970 the original full scale plaster pattern in svenson s studio today whenever i walk downtown and encounter the sculpture i m always drawn in by the pleasing flow of its shapes and the illus...