A couple digital drawings, but more pen and ink this week! Most of these were done in the car, hence the messiness. But I really kinda like it. I drew the lightning stork and giraffe while doing my first ever Facebook Live! It was really fun and I predict more in the future. 

“Red Vines” | June 24, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Fruits with Names ” | June 25, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Cloudy Sequoia” | June 25, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Where to Go?” | June 28, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Retreat Mode” | June 28, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Nose Picker” | June 28, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Lightning Storm” | June 28, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Giraffe by Request” | June 28, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Mary Girl” | June 30, 2016 | Digital Painting

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A surprisingly art-heavy week! I went camping this week, so about halfway through this post you’ll see a whole boatload of ink drawing. I forgot how much I love drawing with the Pentel Pocket Brush pen. I love the texture you get from it. 

“Tomatoes” | June 17, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner” | June 17, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Just Another Cactus” | June 18, 2016 | Digital Painting

 

 

“Chubby Unicorn” | June 18, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Car Doodles” | June 19, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Ocean Things” | June 20, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“More Food Stuffs” | June 20, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“OK People” | June 21, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Doodle Things” | June 21, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“Trees on Wood”, “Tall Tree”, “Fish” | June , 2016 | Ink on Wood

“Leg Hair, Don’t Care” | June 23, 2016 | Ink on Paper

“In the Clouds” | June 23, 2016 | Ink on Paper

July 6, 2016 | 0 comment

Well, well, I am getting behind on my blogging. That is no surprise as we are full swing into summer and that mean my busiest time of the year. Endless weddings, endless work. I’m trying my best to keep up with my art, but this level of crazy often gets me sort of depressed. Which makes art making even more essential because it brings me so much happiness. I started a series of alphabet animals inspired by my swan piece from a couple weeks ago. So far I’ve done A, B, C, F, O and S. I feel like there should be more pieces from week 24, but I can’t remember. Agghh!

“Suns and Cacti” | June 10, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Bear” | June 11, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Fish” | June 12, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Camel” | June 13, 2016 | Digital Painting

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“Ukulele” | June 3, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Beards” | June 5, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Bubble Tree” | June 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

 

“Armadillo” | June 7, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Levitating Pizza” | June 8, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Octopus” | June 9, 2016 | Digital Painting

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It was a good week for art making. I was at home with a sick toddler all week, so I was able to get in a few extra drawings. My art from this week was done exclusively using the “dry brush” set of Procreate brushes that I developed last week. I really love the element of texture it adds. 

“Swan” | May 27, 2016 | Digital Painting

“My Bike” | May 28, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Strokes of Blue” | May 29, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Dancing Girl” | May 30, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Plant by the TV” | May 30, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Apology” | May 31, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Sprinkles” | May 31, 2016 | Digital Painting

“People Pattern” | May 31, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Self Portrait with Pencil and Camera | May 31, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Three Trees” | June 1, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Donut Day” | June 2, 2016 | Digital Painting

May 31, 2016 | 0 comment

Some fun stuff this week, the most exciting of which was I spent some time developing some new brushes in Procreate. I’ve really been wanting a brush that emulates the look of dry brush in physical painting. I used them for the first time in “Dry Saguaro” and “Ice Cream Monster”, but I’m just getting a feel of what they can do best. So far I’ve got a set of about six brushes that I am really loving. Cannot wait to share the stuff I’ve been making with them this week. My favorite piece this week though is “Everyday Jack” inspired by the art work of French artist Jean Jullien. At the NY MoMA, I purchased “This is Not a Book” for my son, which is such an adorable concept of a book. It’s filled with interactive illustrations that turn the book into a laptop, a refrigerator, a tent, and more. It is so cute and the illustrations are wonderful. It really made me fall in love with Jean Jullien’s illustrations. “Everyday Jack” was fun because I was having some friends that were staying at our house give me ideas for what objects to draw.

“Palms” | May 20, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Everyday Jack” | May 21, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Bear and Lisa’s Painting” | May 22, 2016 | Watercolor

“Waffle Pattern” | May 23, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Dry Saguaro” | May 24, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Ice Cream Monster” | May 25, 2016 | Digital Painting

May 31, 2016 | 0 comment

I’m really proud of my artwork from this past week. I got in a full seven days of art-making, made some patterns that I really love, and found a new way of drawing people’s faces that I am liking a lot. Not much else to say!

“Bananrama” | May 13, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Orange Juice” | May 14, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Factus” | May 15, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Star Person” | May 16, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Swans” | May 17, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Daisy Girl” | May 17, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Ferns” | May 18, 2016 | Digital Painting

May 19, 2016 | 0 comment

My art looks a little different this week. I left my Apple Pencil at my office over the weekend so I drew a bunch little pieces in the Procreate app for iPhone. Also I did a piece with real paints this week! I was working on a design suite for a client that involved a lot of poppies, so I made some poppies on my own. I feel like I am losing steam a little bit on this project as the year is starting to get busier and busier. I really need to make sure I am putting in the time every night because I have been loving this project so much. The passion is still there, the time is a little harder to come by. 

“Spiral Spots” | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

 

“Round Eyes in Teal” | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Round Eyes in Red” | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Pink Plus 1″ | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Pink Plus 2″ | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Blue Plus” | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Rainbow Plus” | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Little Script” | May 6, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Frenchie” | May 7, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Ugly Strawberry” | May 8, 2016 | Digital Painting

 

 

“Poppies” | May 9, 2016 | Gouache on Watercolor Paper

 

“Pup” | May 12, 2016 | Digital Painting

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Obviously New York had a big influence on my art this week. I drew one of the apartment buildings I’d see on our walk back “home” from our subway stop. A visit to the MoMA inspired me to  try a more painterly style. I even took an afternoon for myself and painted with real paints in our rental apartment (and super sad that I found it smeared the next morning. I blame Bear). I also drew some well-loved NYC snacks, and a quote a friend had recently said. I also began work on an illustrated recipe for my perfect chocolate chip cookies. Seriously, I have spent so much time researching the prefect cookie recipe, making batch after batch, to get it to what I think is perfect. That will have to be a whole ‘nother post.

“Apartments on Harman Street” | April 29, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Blue Haired Woman” | April 30, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Bright Desert Mix” | May 2, 2016 | Gouache

“NYC Snacks” | May 4, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Cookie Ingredients (work in progress)” | April , 2016 | Digital Painting

“Law of Second Chances” | April 5, 2016 | Digital Painting

May 6, 2016 | 0 comment

We spent the last week and a half traveling in DC and NYC with our son. So. Traveling and trying to keep up with art making was harder than I though it would be. I forgot how exhausting travel is. We averaged about 5 miles of walking a day and returned to the places we were staying pretty exhausted. All of these (except for one) were made on airplanes, and I have no idea how I managed that with an active two-year old. “Desert Plant Mix” was inspired by the work of Margaret Jeane. I’ve been loving seeing her iPad pieces in instagram and love her style so decided that I would do my take on it. Of course there are lots of cacti. “Not so Blind” was made after visiting Blind Whino in DC, the coolest building ever. It is my interpretation of the facade.

“Desert Plant Mix” | April 24, 2016 | Digital Painting

“NYC All Over” | April 27, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Not so Blind” | April 27, 2016 | Digital Painting

“Cypress Inn Cafe Sketch” | April 28, 2016 | Ballpoint Pen

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