A New Medium

This is from a pencil sketch that I want to submit to SCBWI for a spot illustration...Linda's post gave me the idea of putting some colored pencil to it.

A new medium

I like drawing with ink. I like painting with watercolours. Combining both together is still new to me, so I'm going to improve it this year. Which one of them to apply first? What kind of paper to use? Advices and recommendations are very welcome!

Sarah couldn't wait to get to Kenya's house for their playdate.

She wanted to play with all the wonderful gifts that Kenya and her

parents brought back with them from their vacation in African.

Of course Kenya brought back many delicious things for her best

friend Sarah! he he he!!!

Celebrating the New Year

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2010, full of happiness, health and peace (and lots of illustrations!)

We just got back from a two week trip to Brazil to visit my family and we had a lovely time!

Celebrating the New Year

I'm celebrating the New Year by challenging myself to work toward several goals: lose weight, master the color pencil, and enter more exhibitions. This image is Prismacolor, and I usually only work in color pencil monochromatically. It's in its very beginning stage. I want to push myself to learn how to use the medium with full color. I've even joined Colored Pencil Society of America! I've used a reference photo for this image that I took at the last PAWS Mardi Gras Pet Parade. I loved the relationship between the bulldog & his happy owner.

New media

Still hard at work on my book. It is going much slower than I like, but the pages I have done I really like and am very happy with them.

I couldn't find a good cradle with any reference so I went out and bought some clay. I only needed a little but the smallest box was 10 pounds. So now I have about 9 3/4 lbs of clay left!

Above is my reference for my nature baby in his cradle. I didn't sculpt the face, and the clay needs to dry beor I can paint it. But now I have reference so I can push forward with more book drawings. Baby is in about a third of all images including the cover!

Wish me luck and creative flowing productive energy, the deadline looms!!! LOL

Ta!

New Medium

I'm doing a CD album cover and also the sleeves for this local band (Hollywood Nobody), will be titled "Everything Happens for a Reason". I've been messing around with new media for this little project, and it's exciting!

I made up a little scene here: the girl is wondering why the sun doesn't rise early and why the moon doesn't shine more brightly, it's because "everything happens for a reason". Sorry for those annoying little notes...

This is not final, only a little preview, but i hope they'll like my work so far. The CD will be released next month (i'm excited because it will be released in Asia too!), so... wish me luck!

I'm so sorry i've been busy, see you later WaWe!!!!!

This is Mama Bear. She is made with collage and mixed on canvas.

I had such fun doing this little project. I really enjoy trying all kinds

of media to see how they will work both together and separately.

I'm always trying some new products. I used painty pens to do this.

Stinky, but I love them!!!

New Beginnings

Chad had to give the Christmas tree one more big hug before his dad put it out on the curb.

His father knew that Christmas was really special to him, but didn't expect this kind of

reaction! Chad knew that the Christmas tree being put out for garbage day meant that

his two week holiday vacation was really over and that school was back in session!

Happy January everyone!

Happy New Year!

This is an image for the cover of January 2010 Stories for Children Magazine--I finally got to do a cover! I used an image that I'd done earlier & added to it. The sad thing is they're going out of business after March 2010. I'll miss them--I've been illustrating for them for over a year now. They'll be missed... oops, I've been messing with the blog colors--let me know if they don't read well.