Selling The John Alvin Art Estate Collection

Well, the cat, as they say, is out of the bag. The John Alvin Art Estate, a collection of over 1000 original pieces by John Alvin is going up for sale as one glorious collection. John Alvin is the cinema artist and creator of over 100 movie posters from the 70s, 80s, and 90s known … Read more

2025 Animation and Film Art Gift Guide

It’s coming to the end of a crazy, often challenging and emotionally intense year, and all these difficulties have really brought home the importance of the family and friends we love. There’s never been a more important time for celebration and choosing joy. This holiday season, the ArtInsights animation and film art guide has everything … Read more

Remembering Stuart Craig: Oscar Winning Harry Potter Production Designer

Production designer Stuart Craig died this September after a long journey with Parkinson’s. We remember Stuart Craig for his many contributions to the film world, but especially for his work on the Harry Potter films. Famously saying “how the hell are we going to do this?” after reading the source material, he set about building … Read more

It’s A Peanuts Celebration & Sandy’s Retirement from Peanuts Animation!

It’s very exciting to see It’s A Peanuts Celebration, such a great new limited edition, which came out on Tuesday after much consideration, work, and reworking on the part of Sandy at Sopwith and Peanuts animation director Larry Leichliter! It has so many great moments we all remember from our favorite Peanuts specials! See if … Read more

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown 50th Anniversary: Original Art & Exclusive Interview with Larry Leichliter

Imagine my surprise when I discovered NO ONE was having the official 50th celebration of one of my favorite Peanuts animation specials, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. The show premiered on January 28th, 1975, and went on to nominated for an Emmy, against two other Bill Melendez Productions studio releases, It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie … Read more

Animation Oscar History and Hopefuls: The Wild Robot, Memoir of a Snail, Inside Out 2 and more!

It’s the holidays again, which means I’m not only handling holiday shopping with ArtInsights, but my film critic and journalist hat is on for much of the time! I’m not only the lead contributor to the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and write for the Motion Picture Association’s The Credits, I’m also part of 3 … Read more

The Art of The Nightmare Before Christmas: The History & Importance of a Holiday Classic

To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, “it’s comin’ on to Halloween”.  For film lovers, that means lots of great classic horror. There’s 1922’s Nosferatu, James Whale’s Frankenstein and the other wonderful Universal Monsters, seminal works of the 60s like Hitchcock’s Psycho, Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and the best Hammer horror, to 70s and 80s classics … Read more

Spotlight on Scrooge McDuck: Character History and Uncle Scrooge Disney Fine Art

Assuming you’re a Disney fan overall, your memories and appreciation of Scrooge McDuck, or Uncle Scrooge to his friends and family, largely depends on how old you are. Folks of the “Silent Generation”, all born before 1946, will remember him from his debut comic book in 1947, Christmas on Bear Mountain. Baby Boomers will remember … Read more

Christmas in July: Larry Leichliter talks Tree Lot, His new Peanuts Limited Edition, A Charlie Brown Christmas, & Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales

Talking about doing a “Christmas in July” show all began when we discovered there would be a new limited edition being released based on the Tree Lot scene in the classic and historic 1965 animated Peanuts TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. In case you didn’t know, “CHRISTMAS IN JULY” is an actual thing, and … Read more

Women Rocking Hollywood: Live Action Female Filmmakers and The Women of Disney Fine Art

Recently, we travelled to LA for WonderCon to present the 10th Women Rocking Hollywood panel. The event is part of the other life of ArtInsights co-owner Leslie Combemale (that’s me!) as a film journalist, writing for the Motion Picture Association and on the Alliance of Women Film Journalist site. I am an enthusiastic supporter of … Read more

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Adventures in Toontown

Why is Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Adventures in Toontown our first blog of 2024? Why are we talking about the animation/live action hybrid’s history and legacy of art? The impetus is that I recently got an email from our Disney Fine Art wholesalers announcing that as of January 23rd, they could no longer sell any … Read more

Holiday Greetings from Disney Fine Artists

We’re in the midst of Honukkah 2023 and, as Joni Mitchell would say, “It’s coming on Christmas”, and with all that’s happening in the world, it’s something that should be celebrated right now. I’ve discovered, over time, that Disney fans and collectors are the most avid lovers and celebrants of Christmas, Hanukkah, the Winter Solstice, … Read more

Welcome to ArtInsights 2.0: Our Hybrid Online & In-Person Art Gallery Model!

Welcome to ArtInsights 2.0: A Hybrid Online & In-person Model! What, pray-tell, ArtInsights 2.0 look like? That’s what I’m here to lay down. First, for those of you who might want to know why we decided to close our brick and mortar gallery, here’s an article about it published in The Reston Letter,   Essentially, we … Read more

Top Ten Halloween Cartoons of All Time

Who doesn’t love a Top Ten Halloween Cartoons list? Something about classic scary cartoons stirs up nostalgia more than the average every day animation. Is there something about being scared at the same time as entertained that we hold on to from childhood? Every year at ArtInsights, October has offered the opportunity to play all … Read more

Exclusive Interview with Animation Artist Larry Leichliter: On Creating Art, The Great Pumpkin, and his Memories of Peanuts

As part of our Peanuts art special event, “Halloween in August” featuring the new limited edition The Great Pumpkin, award-winning animation director and artist Larry Leichliter added layout drawings to original vintage cels that needed context. Here’s one example:   He is also creating original drawings based on two images from It’s The Great Pumpkin, … Read more

BIG NEWS: ArtInsights is Going Virtual!

Hi! Leslie, co-owner of ArtInsights here, making a big announcement… That’s right, after 30 years in brick and mortar, we’re moving online-ArtInsights is going virtual-we’re SO excited about it, and hope you are, too! We’ve loved being in person and face to face all this time with our framing clients, and some of our art … Read more

“Like Father Like Son”: Jango, Boba, and John Alvin’s Love of Star Wars

Today, we’re going to talk about Boba and Jango Fett, and a piece created by John Alvin called Like Father Like Son. I love The Mandalorian. I love Padro Pascal, I mean, who doesn’t? In fact, Grogu has become my second favorite Star Wars character after Yoda. All that being said, as bounty hunters go, … Read more

Peanuts Art: Dean Spille, Lee Mendelson, and Price Increase Alert!

I’ve not written any blogs on price alerts before, but this seemed Charlie Brown and Snoopy art by Dean Spille, and Peanuts art signed by producer Lee Mendelson, who passed away in 2019, seemed a good time to start! These Peanuts art pieces are all based on Dean Spille storyboard color keys, so they are … Read more

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