Curiosities

Happy Halloween everybody! I hope you've all had your fill of sweets and booze! This week seemed like the perfect time for me to announce me and my husband's newest collaboration project! It will be a collaborative effort with other artists and writers! It will be ready for the public one year from today! Let the countdown begin!

Cat Circus

My now husband likes to always entertain me with little stories about our cats, one day he said that my old cat boots had run off to the circus while I was away. I imagined what a circus full of cats looked like and was very amused. I imagine there would be lots of cute kitties and lots of fur flying!

I have this also listed in my shop as a large and small print! I'll have some at CTN X too!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83885634/cat-circus

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83907587/cat-circus-85x11-print

Small World

I'm participating in a show this Saturday at Gallery Nucleus! This piece will be up for sale! It's a 16x20 Acrylic, Paper, and Washi tape piece. When I saw the Mary Blair show at Imagineering earlier this year I was impressed at how she used so many materials and I wanted to experiment with it myself. Here's the result!

Hopefully anyone in Southern California will come down on Saturday to say hello and see all of the beautiful art that will be on display! Here's a list of the artists participating

Joey Chou
Lorelay Bové
Patrick Awa
Brittney Lee
Becky Dreistadt
Patrick Hruby
Michelle Romo
Eric Diaz
Michael Fleming
Grace Lee
Brendan Wenzel
Justin Parpan
Israel Sanchez
Seb Mesnard
Griselda Sastrawinata
Rad Sechrist
Nellie Le
Pete Oswald
Mark Sperber
Winnie Ho
Christian Robinson
Victoria Ying
Ryan Kramer
Alex Chechik
Kevin Chan
Sean Sullivan
Ryuku Uratsuji
Chris Turnham
Josh Parpan
Jesse Tise
Elizabeth Ito
Jing Wei
Ben Butcher
Brigette Barrager
Chris Sasaki
Claire Keane

Uwe Heidschoetter

Oliver Akuin
Edward Juan
Linda Kim
Jackie Huang
Patrick Raines
Eren Blanquet
Drake Brodahl
Christina Song
Olga Stern

More Hunger Games fanart

Secretly I'm a giggly 16 year old girl! It's interesting how my mental image of the characters seems to be very pliable. As I keep sketching I keep discovering things that I realize feel more like the characters than the way I had imagined them!

I wanted to do a piece where the characters were wearing the black fire costume that Cinna makes for them

Announcing my book! Freckles!

Hey all! Exciting news! Last week I mentioned that I will have an art book available for CTN-X! This is a temp cover, the text I think will change. It's going to be 72 pages of artwork, about half of which has not been posted before! I'll be printing 500 of them, so I'll have some for Emerald City con and for sale in my shop as well! I'm so excited for everything this fall! I'm so excited to get to meet everyone!

Katniss Everdeen

On my most recent trip to Taiwan, I bought the Hunger Games series on my Kindle, and I had such a great time reading them! I'm very excited for the films, but I wanted to do a sketch of what Katniss looked like in my head. I imagine her with large Doe like eyes, but a narrow sharp jaw and strong eyebrows. In my dream casting, I would have had Jennifer Carpeter from Dexter 10 years ago!

I also wanted to announce that I'm going to be printing an art book for CTN-X in November! I hope to see you all there where I will be sharing a table with my Fiance.

He's doing a really cool project too, Go to his blog and check it out! I'm helping him with the animals in his cars

Mike Yamada's Blog

Paper Cut Stylez!

A few weeks ago at Imagineering, they had a Mary Blair show where they displayed many of her original pieces of art! We managed to go on the last week and got to see some of them in real life. I was shocked at the quality of them as well as how much process you could see by seeing the originals. On many of the pieces you could see her grid lines, and how she cut the paper or tape. I loved how you could see that the pieces were both very planned and also very spontaneous.

I was also surprised at how much paper cut she used in her pieces many of the scanned images you see in the books don't show the little folds or curls or cut marks. I got really inspired and I wanted to do some pieces integrating paper as well. Here is my first try, using Pricessia Pia again, I also used gold tape and some Washi tape for her dress and crown! I had SO much fun doing it, I can't wait to keep exploring these materials!

Original Acrylic Painting available

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a little bit unfocused! I decided to try this Acrylic style from my Art Director, Mike Giaimo at work! He's an amazing artist and and has taught me alot about handling the materials!

Link to the sale

Original Art Available at my Etsy

I'm going to try and just do some original art here and there, hopefully one a week! I'm going to be listing them on my etsy for sale! This one is on there currently, it's a small ish piece 5x7 experimenting with different ways to use watercolor.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/76657616/bathing-lovely

Power in Numbers

Gallery Nucleus has an online program where artists are constantly updating small pieces for charity. I participated, and have submitted this piece called "Princessa Piea" She's a spoiled little girl. I'm going to try and do a childrens book with her!

It's a really great program for artists and art buyers alike! The prices are always fairly reasonable for original art! This piece will be sold for only 100 dollars!

Here's the link to the sale

http://www.gallerynucleus.com/pin

My Piece hasn't been listed yet, but I'm sure it will go up soon!

Japan

A Piece I did for Japan :) I had a pretty great time painting it, I need to get more watercolor practice.

My friend Lorelay is doing a show at Nucleus tonight! If anyone is in the LA area they should swing by and say Hi!

FRINGE

I love Sci Fi! Ever since LOST ended, Fringe has been my weekly event. Sometimes I sketch during the show and did some caricatures of the characters. I might do another one with Fauxlivia, Walternate and Lincoln Lee.

April 2

Outfit of the day post!

Hung out in Silverlake today, had lunch at one of my fave spots "Forage!"

I've been having a lot of fun doing the text for these pieces too. Illustrative text is one of my favorite things nowadays! One of my biggest regrets is not playing as much in my classes and learning how to do things other than illustration...

Outfit:

Hat: Urban Oufitters

Dress: Steven Alan

Shoes: Anthropologie

march 31

Feeling summery! It's 90 degrees in LA....

I spoke to a group of students today at Disney Inspiredays, it's great to talk to other young people who are passionate about illustration/animation!

Outfit:

Top: Urban Oufitters

leggings: Target

Shoes: Marni

Bag: Chloe (same as yesterday...I don't usually change bags often)

Watch: Channel

March 30th

Chose jeans today! It was a warm day though and with a walk to the lot....I feel like it was a mistake...

Outfit:

Top: Franche Lippee

Bag: Chloe

Jeans: J Brand

Shoes: Frye

Jewelry: Forever 21

March 29th outfit

Outfit of the day! It's a beautiful spring day here in Los Angeles! I got all these adorable socks from Madwell and I need to get some open toed Heels shoes to show them off better!

Outfit:

Hat: Urban Outfitters

Dress: Forever 21

Socks: Madwell

Shoes: Deena and Ozzy @ Urban Outiftters

March 22nd

I got this idea to start doing doodles of my outfits from a few diffrent people, I saw Nancy Z's blog, which is awesome, but I sadly don't have the time or energy to photograph myself, but everyone should check out her work!

I also saw recently this awesome chick Tiffany Ford's been doing it too! It's so fun to see into people's normal lives outside their art!

Outfit today:

Feeling a little lazy, which for me means Jeans and a tee

Top: Scolar

Sweater: Madewell

Jeans: J Brand

Shoes: Toms

Bag: (not pictured) Stella Mcartney for LeSportsac

Accessories: COFFEE

I've been feeling a weird desire for coffee lately. Thank goodness for good coffee at work ;)

Some Disney Commissions

For Christine, she wanted her kids playing with Rapunzel and Jack Sparrow! I had a good time doing these...I started using watercolor to line the pieces instead of the colored pencil. I think I'm starting to get a technique that works well!

Sketches of Ladies

Some very loose thumbnails I did for a commission....They were quick, but I enjoyed doing them!

The first is an opera singer, the second a geisha, and the last a christmas themed gal!

Fat Unicorns~

I did a few more fabric designs! These are fun for me because I like to do things that amuse myself.

I have pre-orders for these fabrics on my fabric shop!