Chocolate Crepe recipe

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Artificial

Full view above and a close up view below

A pattern of robots and boops and beeps. This was done with paint, microns and digital color. Posted for Illustration Friday's theme , “Artificial ". Beep Boop Beep.

In a creek

A quick painting of a couple in a creek. Outlining the shapes in my paintings for me is the most enjoyable part of painting. I get to use a liner brush - (these brushes last forever! I love them.) Also I do the outlines last so my painting comes together once their done. This painting was wonderful practice and I’m happy with how it turned out. For this one I like it being simple.

SCBWI Owl

My owl was published along side an article in SCBWI's Bulletin for July. Yay I love that my hoot is going to be seen by so many writers and artists.

Tiger

The original painting is 9x13 done in gouache and acrylic on watercolor paper.
I was asked by a friend to do a more whimsical painting with people. Several years ago while in school I painted mostly whimsical things. I remember once I painted a dragon with a picnic table tied to his back for picnickers. I feel my work grew away from being this whimsical over the last couple years; I would like to bring it back into my work. Just a little bit. While working on this painting I listened to the sound track to The Darjeeling Limited the Wes Anderson movie that takes place in India. Some inspiring music for a painting featuring an Indian tiger. I’m debating going back and re-painting the tigers eye. His eye is a little different from eyes I usually paint - (Just ovals…Hehe) but part of me likes the fact that it’s a little different.

A fox and a kite

The other day I did this painting in Gouache and acrylic. I was looking through some old sketches while cleaning my studio space. One sketch I put aside was of a fox flying a kite. After cleaning I decided to paint (mess up what I had just cleaned). This painting has similar colors and design of a smaller painting I did a few months back. The painting was of a bear and cat in a red wagon (It is on my web page as well as my ETSY site).It had the same grassy lines as well as the sandy color background. I like this design very much and I would like to start a series of illustrations much like this one.

Apple tree

cat roll

This is just a sketch I did in pencil then went over the lines with black gouache.
Have you ever seen a cat flop down and roll about? My cats do this all the time.
So I thought i would do a sketch of a happy cat rolling.

Harbor

Gouache and acrylic 8x10

Birds and more

I would like to call these, perfect imperfect birds. A painted pattern of birds with colored wings. (Plus one music note) done in gouache 8x10. I think this would make a cute note card.

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Chinese art
I miss my brother who is in china for the summer. He is going to shanghi university. Last time he was in china he brought this painting home for me. It’s a very large wall scroll. I just recently hung it up, It practically matches my wall.

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House Tree

Gouache 8x10. I'm happy with how the colors turned out in this painting. At my house we have this very big potted tree that lives inside all winter. The tree's much bigger then the one in the painting as scale goes. Its really a monster. During the summer it lives on our deck. This is a painting of a couple trying to take care of their house tree.

Simple Birds

Simple painted pattern of birds. These are some of the birds that live around my house.
From top to bottom .Hummingbird, blue jay, cardinal, robin, sparrow, wren, red belly woodpecker (My favorite backyard bird!) Titmouse, Chickadee and golden fronted woodpecker.

Children’s Book: Couple of Cows

Last October I wrote a children’s book. Ever since then I have been illustrating it. Well I have been trying to move it along lately. As of right now I have fully painted 7 full page spreads. (14 book pages) I have 8 full page spreads left to paint. (Total of 30 pages) Plus The cover and type. It would be nice to be done the book by the end of the summer, but I will more likely be done by the end of the year. This is being done in my free time. At least the story is finished. I’m not going to explain the story in this blog post; I just wanted to talk a little bit about how it was going. Of course I will explain the cow pictures.
Image 1- First I figure out how cows stand
Image 2 - Then I figure out the characters
Image 3 - final sketch: also I realized the cows are facing the wrong way.
Image 4 - This is a cropped image of the cows in the book
I have to go back and paint in their shadows.
My book is not about cows, but cows are featured on one page. I just thought these couple of cows was worth a mention.

sea shore