Woody's Roundup - Toy Story 2 Hand-Painted Mixed-Media on Hand-Textured Canvas with Unique Hand Painted Background.Monte Trevor Carlton was born in Olympia, Washington. Although he took up painting in high school, the first artistic passion that Trevor embraced was acting. He decided to forgo an art scholarship in favor of attending a dramatic arts scholarship at Skagit Valley College.
Trevor next attended the Lee Strasberg Acting Workshop. The following year he relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Amidst the chaos of auditions and callbacks, Trevor paid the bills by working in a custom furniture store, specializing in antiquing and faux finish designs.
It was here that a style was born. Using reclaimed lumber as his “canvas”, he started painting images of vintage Americana with subjects ranging from pop icon celebrity to the hey-day of jazz. After numerous gallery shows in Los Angeles and private commissions he was given the opportunity to combined his unique style to that most American of symbols, Mickey Mouse.
Carlton says of his work, “I want people to imagine they found my artwork in some old run down movie theater basement. Unpreserved and forgotten, an antique bearing the nostalgia and character that only time can bring.” Carlton’s vintage inspired fine art pieces are among the most collected images in the history of the Disney Fine Art program and he uniquely qualified to pay homage to the old but not forgotten stars of “Woody’s Roundup” as seen in Pixar’s third feature film, Toy Story 2.
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Trevor Carlton
