The letters stand for the Golden Palm, an apartment building that I shared with many other Art Center students. Many of them have gone on to become well known in comics, illustration, and painting. They include Paul Chadwick (Concrete), Bryn Barnard (Writer, Illustrator, Muralist), Thomas Kinkade (Painter of Light), Ron Harris (Crash Ryan), Alan Munro (Visual FX), Mark Verheiden (Writer), and David Mattingly (Animorphs Illustrator).
We all called ourselves “GP-ers,” and we got together for sketch groups, field trips to movies and museums, and art-themed potlucks.
I’ll send a free Dinotopia map to the first person who correctly names all of the covers from which the details above are excerpted.
Can the artist be bribed? Any of those a Philip Dick novel?
ReplyDeleteHA! I know the top right one anyway. Hey, that's not only one of my favorite SF books, but one of my favorite SF book covers too! Didn't know you did that one. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI have a bunch of concept sketches of other items from that particular book hiding somewhere...
I don't know any of the others, so won't spoil it. :)
What was Thomas Kinkade like in school?
ReplyDeleteThats awesome haha. im going there in the fall!
ReplyDeleteWell...I found at least 2 of these covers on the James Gurney website under illustrations. Perhaps even three...
ReplyDeletehaha, contest is over, i got all five,
ReplyDelete#1 were the wild things are
#2 harry potter and the socerres cup
#3 norm from cheers
#4 super fun happy chef
#5 the lion the witch and the overalls
When I was in college, they called us the Pinecrest 6th Floor Mutants.
ReplyDeleteThats pretty amazing but not shocking that you came from such great company!!!
ReplyDeleteI havent heard anything much about the folks I went to school with at CCAD.
Looks like the city didn't like what they saw there when they inspected:
ReplyDeletehttp://la.everyblock.com/pool-inspections/by-date/2008/7/31/314992/
OK, no winners on this contest. This was way too hard. Even my wife couldn't get it. And the upper middle one was cropped out of the book cover. But anyway, FYI, the book covers are:
ReplyDeleteGlory Lane
Citizen Phaid
Starrigger
Quozl, and
Cowboy Feng's Spaceport Bar and Grill
I only recognized the last one. This is fun; like looking for "ninas" in Al Hirschfeld drawings.
ReplyDeleteWow, a photo of the GP... I went by a few months ago and, except for looking considerably more dilapidated and sporting many more iron bars, the place was pretty much the same.
ReplyDeleteI actually got a hug from an art dealer once when they learned I had inherited Tom Kinkade's old apartment. I'm still not sure why. To think I spackled over those glorious paint spatters!
Hey, great to hear from you, Mark. Yeah, we visited the place, too, and it had seen better days.
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