First Post

Hi! Welcome to my blog! Assuming you found my blog, you are probably an animation art fan. Handpainted Backgrounds is my first blog creation, it is to document the painting process of creating custom handpainted backgrounds for cels. Hopefully some of us will find this useful and start picking up our brushes. Its not that hard to paint! =)

On a more serious note, I began painting animation art backgrounds to enhance my personal cel collection, it is an incredible hobby. Not only I have met many incredible people all over the world through my cel collection, I also picked up loads of animation knowledge along the way. This blog is dedicated to a very special mentor, Kathy, an excellent artist herself.

Sadly, background painting is a dying form of art as most animation studios are moving towards the 3D direction. If I could past forward myself a couple of decades, I would have loved to work in the Ink and Paint Department at Disney. In real life, I am just a 21 yr college student in Singapore studying something with no relation to art or animation. Unfortunately, none of my peers are as passionate as my "silly cartoons" and it can be quite a lonely hobby sometimes. :( I can only share my love for old school animation through my cel collection, and of course, this new blog.

I hope you enjoy reading this blog, even though if you don't paint. Feel free to comment, I always enjoy hearing feedback.
Susan