It's been almost a month since this article came out in the Dallas Morning News and the movie is getting great reviews. We did go see the movie on opening night and it was a thrill to see something I had done up on the big screen.. I had forewarning that it appeared  in the first few minutes of the movie while 'Jupiter', the dog narrator, was giving background on how the Isle of Dogs came to be. Thank goodness for that!, because Wes Anderson packs such a visual feast of detail into the movie that you have to watch it several times to get it all in.

I am used to painting really large murals and reminding myself that nobody is going to be focusing on a 2 inch wide section of a 30ft x 8ft painting!  This, however, was not the case on this project and I reveled in obsessing over the details! All the people have patterned clothes on their tiny 2 inch bodies, all the dogs have individual hairs and the pine and cherry trees - teeny tiny needles and blossoms! This picture is from the upper right corner and had a litter of puppies rolling on the floor next to the table. I wanted to show a piece of the panel that didn't stay on screen but for a second because it was so fun to put together. Kudos to all the talented people that worked on the Isle Of Dogs production, what an amazing collection of artists they put together to bring Mr. Anderson's movie to life.