"Fantastic Tales" by Katy Hargrove

This fantastic piece titled "Fantastic Tales" was done by Katy Hargrove for the Brownstones to Red Dirt Postcard Benefit. When I saw this piece listed I thought it was too cute so I just had to get it. Luckily I was able to get the piece. The piece features a boy reading a letter to his Minute Lion from its Griffin Pen Pal from the city. Katy said that when she did the piece "I'd been thinking about how sometimes the things we take as being ordinary and every day can seem so exotic to someone from another place." All in all a very fun piece that I am glad I was able to add to the collection.




The Brownstones to Red Dirt Postcard Benefit was being held to raise funds that will be used to build a school for war orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone and to develop a library for at-risk youth in Brooklyn. All of the artists were sent birch postcard blanks and were given the theme Pen Pals to tie in with the documentary "Brownstones to Red Dirt" which is about a pen pal program that connects the kids at a middle school in Bed-Stuy and war orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone.




The auction description read:
"This vibrant, spirited painting is by artist Katy Hargrove. Inspired by the natural world and animators' ability to bring characters to life, Katie received an Associate Degree in Computer Animation from the Art Institute of Phoenix. Currently living in Seattle, Katy works as a creature modeler at Arena.Net where most of the projects she has worked on are part of the Guild Wars Video game series. Before that she worked as a character designer and concept artist at Seven Studios and Pandemic Studios where some of the projects she worked on included Charlies' Angels, The Fantastic Four, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Katy has won First Place Awards for both the Monster Manual Madness Contest (sponsored by Tony Diterlizzi) and the Intergraph's Power to The Creator Animation Contest. Outside of her busy work day Katy spends her time drawing, painting, sculpting and... tinkering."




Size 4.25 X 5.5 on birchwood postcard.