Walt Disney's three classic films: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White
- Artist - Tricia Buchanan-Benson (biography below)
- Antique, Craftsman, Art Nouveau style
- Each framed measures 20" x 35" x 2.5"
- Visible images are each 29" x 14.5"
- Gallery-wrapped canvas
- Highest quality Giclée printing
- Originally purchased from Disney Art on Main at Disneyland
- Custom framed at great expense, over $600 each
- Very good or Excellent condition
- For the discerning collector of Disneyana
- FOR SALE: $300 each, or set of three for $750
Tricia Buchanan-Benson was born in Southern California where she grew up on healthy doses of Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side and Chuck Jones cartoons. She graduated from LMU in 1996 with a BA in Film and went on to work for such things as "The Simpsons," "King of the Hill" and "Futurama." Her work has also been exhibited in galleries worldwide through the Disney Fine Art program. Tricia currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their daughter, two crazy dogs and a rather obese cat.
From PeabodyFineArt.com:
Following the pattern of most successful artists, Tricia Buchanan-Benson has had a self-proclaimed obsession with painting since an early age.
Drawing cartoons, a young determined woman wrote Walt Disney Studios at the age of 11, asking how to become an animator. Disney, always nurturing young artists and finishing their latest movie at the time, "Oliver and Company", sent her back full details on how to reach her goal. She has even surpassed her own imagination by becoming an animator on The Simpson's, King of the Hill, and Dilbert, specializing in character layout. She now has come full circle back to Disney Fine Art.
If you ask her to name one thing about art that is sure to get her excited it is "Line Quality", that fluid motion which gives a painting life. The confidence to commit thought to canvas, in a single stroke, mastered by the likes of Alphonse Mucha, Maxfield Parrish and animators like Marc Davis and Chuck Jones.
Tricia graduated from Loyola Marymount College with a degree in film, since at the time there was no degree for animation. Private seminars were the only way to hone the craft. At such a seminar Tricia was discovered. She was asked to "Test" for The Simpson's and Futurama. A "Test" is where the director gives the potential animator a scene to layout. She tested for The Simpson's first and as she was testing for Futurama she got the call from The Simpson's asking her to join their team. No longer being able to concentrate she could not finish the test. She thanked them and walked out to celebrate. She has never looked back.
Tricia combines the forever-popular turn of the century Art Nouveau style with the precious Disney's characters we have loved for years. Whether Tinker Bell is powdering her nose or The Cheshire Cat is applying his Vanishing Cream, her unique take on Disney's characters give us a glimpse into their life, that up until now we could only imagine.
