Now that Tim Burton’s latest movie, “Big Fish,” is in theaters, it’s the perfect time to see the American Museum of the Moving Image’s exhibit of drawings by the fanciful filmmaker.
The show includes a watercolor of Danny DeVito as a beastly circus ringmaster in “Big Fish,” as well as drawings that Burton used as the basis for sets, costumes and makeup while making such films as “Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “Ed Wood” and “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”
The director began drawing cartoons in elementary school, studied art in college and kicked off his film career as an animator at Disney.
He is said to frequently carry around a sketchbook and watercolor kit.
“I think best when I’m drawing,” Burton says.
$10. Through November at American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue and 36th Street, Astoria; (718) 784-0077, http://www.ammi.org.