Claire Keane

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to make a little post about my Mentor Claire Keane! She started her own blog! GO check it out, she's got some really fantastic work!

http://claireonacloud.com/

Pecknpaw Giveaway!

Hi Everyone! Two little announcments,

1) Comic con is only a week away! We are doing a special Pecknpaw raffle on the blog! Please become a follower and be entered to win this great book signed by 20 of the artists in the book!

http://pecknpaw.blogspot.com

ALSO: The Piece from the "Sugar and Spice" show is still available! If you would like to purchase it, here's the link!

http://gdg-sugarspice.blogspot.com/

Girls Drawing Girls Sugar and Spice

Friday night will be the Annual Girls Drawing Girls Sugar and Spice show! Here is the painting I did for the show...the title is Strawberry Cake!

Come by and check out the show! It will be Friday at 7 at The Animation Guild building in Burbank!

Edit: This piece is still available! Click here for info

http://gdg-sugarspice.blogspot.com/

Watercolors

I've been experimenting with watercolors recently, Here is what I've been doing! This last one is a piece for a benefit for the Oil Spill here at work! The rest will probably get put up on Etsy

Gulf Coast Paintings

Some watercolors done recently, both of these are available in my shop. All of the proceeds for the paintings in my shop that will appear over the next few weeks will go directly to the Gulf Coast Effort. With the Colbert Nation's Gulf of America Fund.

My heart just breaks seeing all of the devastation in the Gulf...

My Shop

September Issue

Just a quickie while I was watching "The September Issue" I got really inspired by one girl's amazing makeup!

New Paintings Listed on Etsy!

These were all illustrations testing some watercolor techniques! They are all listed in my shop!

My Etsy Shop

T straps!

I purchased my first pair of T straps! They're white not black, but I was excited :)

Pin up Kitty

Just a doodle :)

Work in progress

Sometimes, I browse the internet and I'm amazed at how prolific so many artists out there are! I'm slow, so I decided to post this WIP :)

Prints are GONE!

PRINTS ARE GONE!
Thanks for all the interest!!


So, I was cleaning out my house trying to figure out what to do with these 5 huge boring Ikea frames I had from my graduation show, and had to figure out what to do with the prints inside of them. I felt terrible about throwing them out, and decided to give them away!

Anyhow, onto the prints, if anyone wants these, please let me know, theyre all 13x19 and FREE! I will ship them anywhere in the US for 10 dollars (just for shipping) First person to email me gets em! (Please, US only...int. shipping is a big pain in the buttz)

sshaoshao@gmail.com

I would post new artwork too, but we had our house fumigated, and I'm not yet set up for painting yet :( I'll be doing artz soon tho!!

Elsa picked up the prints, I checked out her blog! This gal is talented! Check her out!!

http://elsasketch.blogspot.com/


Loving her pieces for Richard's Color class esp :)

PecknPaw and the Black Mirror

Hi Folks!

Still working through some art stuff, but otherwise things are pretty good! Working on A Little Golden book for work, which has been stressful due to the pressure (Golden books are all so beautiful!!) But I'm so glad I got the oppertunity.

And here is another project I've been waiting to tell you guys about!

My friend Scott Watanabe approached me last year about doing an anthology for Comic con! I helped Assistant Edit the book with him.

Anyhoo, our whole book is all original artwork from 16 of the super talented visual development artists here at Disney! We've put together a blog, that will be used to talk a little about production of the book.

The awesome story guys who did Torch Tiger will be giving us our booth this year at comic con, so please, stop on by! Say hi, pick up a book! We'll be at 4819 XD

Suckinesssss

Just a doodle :(

I've been feeling in an art rut lately, sorry for the lack of posts :P it happens to us all from time to time, its just tough to find a way out!

Clown!

Circus' always sounded fun~

The Red Shoes

I realize one of the reasons I dont post much is because I think most of the things I do are not worth posting. I'm going to try and post more doodles and random stuff so that this place doesnt dry up again

Rain Rain!

Just a Quickie, The rain in LA has been wonderful lately!

Gah! Been too long!

Its been way too long since my last post, Apologies to all, I've been pretty distracted lately :)

Here's a work in progress I've been fiddling with during my breaks!

Micro!

These two watercolor pieces were for our Work's Micro Gallery! It was a lot of fun and I hope to keep doing them. I want to try to do some watercolor environments too, but I've been struggling a little with that stuff lately.

Loma Linda Children's Hospital Auction

Hello guys! I'm showing off my piece for the Loma Linda Children's Hospital Auction! It's a great little cause and if your in the Inland Empire, come on down and check out some of the other great names that are going to be there!

Here's their site for more info!
http://giftedartist.blogspot.com/

More Vegs!

So much fun to do these! I haven't had a lot of time to do personal work....I've been redoing some stuff around the house recently so not a lot of personal work...I've got to get on it!

Turnip!

Turnip Turnip Turnip! I find turnips to be a tasty winter veggie! Especially good in a crock pot with a roast :)

AlSO! I got a twitter! (I know I know...late to the party, I decided to get it just to follow people I'm interested in!) If you have a twitter, post your link here!

here's mine

http://twitter.com/victoriaying

Space Rover

A super duper speedie...Just wanted to try something Sci Fi :)

I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween! Mike and I went to SB for some beer and wine tasting and had a really great time even tho we werent participating in the Halloween festivities.

Couple of Things...

Two TOTALLY different styles of painting, the second is a study of Sargent's One of my faves since it seems so effortless!

Whenever I try to decide what kind of style I like to pursue, its sort of hard because I like to do so many things :P

Also! I'll be at APE this weekend! Not as an exhibitor, just a spectator, but if you see me feel free to say Hi!

Ice Creams!

Mint Chip and Rocky Road! MMMMmmm...

Sargent Study

Just a quick study today :) I Love Sargent!

I've done a few of these recently, at work, I'm doing character renderings, Sargent really is the master of subtly, and I've been learning a lot doing them!

Final Raffle Winner!

Thank you to everyone who has decided to Follow my blog!

Today is the final drawing for the winner of the Raffle. All 3 Retro Prints!

And the winner is...


ERIN HUNTING!

Congratulations! Thanks again to everyone who is following me. Stay Tuned for more free stuff!

Rites of Spring

Inspired by the Centaurs from the Original Fantasia....Working at Disney has it perks, I was looking around for old Freddie Moore drawings, and Just had to do a couple of pretty centaur girls! It was my fave short from the old Fantasia!


I've been messing around with watercolors, but I've mostly been doing it on the regular bond paper I use to draw on, but soon I think I will bring in a pad of arches to do it on real watercolor paper :P

Raffle winner Number 2!

This week's winner was...

Wayne B. Medina!!


Congrats on your prints!

Also, Congrats to my dear Friends Georgia and Brian, Who announced their engagement this week. I get to be the Maid of Honor! So Exciting!

Raffle Winner!

And a little Illustration to go with it!

and our first winner....of One Retro Print...is.....

Manola!!

I will be emailing you shortly to get your decision on what piece you would like!

Our next drawing will be next week! Stay Tuned!

Oh Gizmo...

Mike likes to joke that our Kitty's spend the day driving around in little cars running little errands...I think that Gizmo is more of a joy rider! so I did this little illustration. For a while I was thinking of doing a childrens book based on Gizmo and Gizmo's adventures, but for now this will do. It reminds me a little of the Richard Scarry aimals that I used to love as a kid too!

Retro Illos

I've been watching a lot of Mad Men of recent days, and its really a fantastic show! I love the styling and all of the cute outfits and great decor.

Inspired by my friend Jeff Turley (http://turleysketch.blogspot.com/), I'm going to be doing a raffle for these prints! A big thank you to all of you who have chosen to follow me on blogger!

The first drawing will be for one print of the three, choose which, the second will be two, and the third will be all three! Follow me to be entered.

here are the dates

Raffle #1: Thursday Sept 10th
Raffle #2: Thursday Sept 17
Raffle #3: Thursday Sept 24

Winners will be posted on my blog on the dates above

For more info on how to follow Click Click!
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=104226

Thanks again everybody!

Hard and Soft

I posted prints of these two on My ETSY and thought that perhaps I should post them here as well :)

I got inspired when I was bored and started watching videos from this year's Spring shows on Style.com! It's always a sure fire way to get me to do art LOL

I've also started a little blog for my Doll obsession. As weird as it is, I thought maybe I could post a link to it here in case anyone was curious about my other weird hobbies. My boyfriend has had a little bit of a difficult time getting used to all of the dolls and doll parts hanging around the house HA.

Fruity Blythe Blog

It hasnt been updated in a while, but I'll be posting more pics of my custom dolls soon!

I also bought a wood burning kit from Micheal's the other day (If you search Google for Micheal's coupon, you'll find one for 50% off!!) I've got a couple ideas of cool stuff to do with it, but I'm a little afraid of the...hot burning...bit....lol. I'm excited to start, I just gotta get up that courage!

Inspired by a feature at "Apartment Therapy" About Creams...Pinks...and Yellow!

Green

I've always loved painting this white girl..After observing her, I think she reminds me of geishas! I will call them Maiko's from now on. Maiko, are Apprentice Geisha in Japan.

Antler Girl

A doodly doo, exploring a mood and getting back into fashion illustration!

Drusilla

I just started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu and I have to say, I'm totally in love with this show! Some (okay, Most) of the characters can get annoying, but I love the bad guys! Esp. Drusilla and Spike.

Someone told me Spike gets all crappy later in the series but since I've only seen up to season 3, I have to say that he's probably my favorite!

Cloudy Days

A quick study of clouds, using brushes stolen from my super talented coworker, Jeff Turley! Still can't quite get the hang of the pen tilt angle jitter, but it looks cool!And a doodle from a meeting :)

It was a pretty exhausting weekend actually, I forgot to post on my blog that I would be at Anime Expo selling Prints and sketchbooks! It was great fun, I got to meet a lot of people and sell some goods, I think I will do it again next year!

Then on friday, Yuki 7 officially opened at Nucleus! Thanks to everyone who came by to show their support it was a really amazing show and Kevin did such a fantastic job with the character and the book!

Comic con is coming soon too O__O! I can't wait! It will be the first time I have had a hotel room since I was in high school. I hope to meet some awesome people, if anyone has a reccomendation of books to buy let me know :)