Middle Aged Pixie

The Official Chuck Jones Virtual Experience is pleased to offer FINE ART collectors a "Middle Aged Pixie" Limited Edition work by Chuck Jones.

The Academy Award-winning animation director-artist, Chuck Jones (1912 - 2002) has created many memorable hit TV shows, movies, and short films. He is truly a legend and icon in the art world!

This rare, limited-edition artwork was created by animation director-artist, Chuck Jones from his vast portfolio of original and limited-edition works of art.

The inspiration for this work of art came from an original drawing by Chuck Jones during his rigorous art training at Chouinard (now California School of the Arts in Valencia).

Unhappy with traditional academia, but in possession of a thoughtful and quick mind (he was reading at age four, serious reading) Chuck was fortunate to be accepted at the Chouinard Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles before graduating from high school. This move transformed him and his talent blossomed in the fertile soil of the Institute. Chouinard (now California School of the Arts in Valencia) has produced many of this and the past century's most brilliant artists working in the film, graphic, and applied arts.

This rigorous training, classically composed of drawing and painting from tableau vivant and tableau mort gave Chuck the basic tools from which he was able to draw throughout his over 60-year career in the animated film arts community. "You birds have 100,000 bad drawings in you," intoned one of his professors at Chouinard. "Start getting rid of them now." This mantra at Chouinard has been repeated by students as diverse as Millard Sheets, Laddie John Dill, John Baldessari, Eric Fischl, Edith Head, and Robert Irwin (alumnae all.)

The Limited Edition artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.