"Winter" painting along the Pacific Coast Highway, 2012.
About
Hi, I'm Mike and I've been an artist my whole life! I wrote and illustrated my first book when I was in second grade, a stapled mass of dot-matrix printer paper filled with leaping dinosaurs. I also did an entire Sunday funnies page full of fart jokes. They were so hilarious that Ms. Colvin threw a special party called a “parent teacher conference” to celebrate. In more recent years, I created a couple hundred "doodles" for Google, a few kids books like Thank You, Dr. Salk!, by Dean Robbins, Food Truck Fest, by Alexandra Penfold, and even a couple more comics.
For all things Kidlit, I am happy to be represented by Marietta Zacker of Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency.
During the day, I work in the animation industry. I served as art director and production designer at Tonko House on the Netflix series, Go! Go! Cory Carson. I was a sets designer on an unannounced feature film at Kuku Studios. Currently I am art director on a 2D animated feature film at Epipheo.
When I'm not illustrating, I'm either painting outside or going on adventures with my wife and two kids in our truck camper. You should see what I'm up to on my Instagram.
Lectures and Workshops
Seoul Museum of Modern Art, Keynote Speaker for KACES Symposium, 2019
Tonko House Exhibition in Seoul S.Korea, Young Children Art Workshop, 2019
Ignite Talks Oakland, Adventures in Doodling 2014
CCA - Guest Instructor/Lecturer 2014
SFMoMA Artists Gallery, Workshop 2012
National Art Education Association conference, 2011
SFMoMA, Doodle4Google Exhibition, 2011
Doodle4Google Ireland 2011, Award Ceremony Co-Host
Doodle4Google USA 2011-2014, Workshop
TechTalks at Google, like TedTalks but geekier, 2011
YouTube UX Landscape Workshop, 2015
If you have a speaking engagement or workshop idea in mind, I'd love to hear from you!
Selected Press
People :: Dian Fossey Google Doodle Explained
Wall Street Journal :: The Story Behind Google's Charlie Chaplin Doodle
Forbes :: Mike Dutton on Honoring Percy Julian and Other Scientists, Civil Rights Leaders
Washington Post :: Profile by Michael Cavna
Washington Post :: How Mike Dutton Overlapped Artistry + Concept for John Venn Doodle
Chicago Tribune :: Drawing Insight into Google's Doodles (Tribune subscription required)
SF Chronicle :: Doodlers Humanize Technology with Art
Publisher's Weekly :: Review, Donovan's Big Day
Oakland Tribune :: Berkeley Artist Draws from Experience
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