Father's day

This is a memory from our family trip to the redwood forests in Northern California.

Colored pencil, sharpie pen.

Mother's day cards 2014

A set of cards I made for my Grandma Jeannette and mom.

The kitchen card was inspired by the stickers. On recycled Elliepooh paper, pen , colored pencil

The sunrise/sunset card was inspired by the illustration of bird on hot air balloon. The lettering was initially cloud-like. Then I added glitter glue for fun.

Christmas 2013

Card for Grandma Jeanette. Collage; felt, paper, stickers

Ominous clouds above stata

The lights off the clouds will make an excellent exercise in chiaroscuro. Need to pick up the brush again.

Happy independence day!

Visited the renovated Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. Not so inspired by furniture but found an unusual portrait and awesome crown.

Samurai armor

Over memorial day weekend, I went with Steve to see the Samurai! Exhibit at the MFA. I was blow away by the craftsmanship, artistry, and decoration. Only had 2 hours in the exhibit and these are my sketches.

These are all pen and marker drawings.

Horse Armour

I saw the Horse face armor and thought "Mushoo! from Disney's Mulan"

Shell shaped helmet, side view,
(sorry, don't know how to rotate image in blogger)

another helmet shaped like a daemon

Elisa's Birthday feb 2013

I made this the same afternoon as the camel daydream card in the previous post. I had gotten a free sheet of love/ Valentine's themed stickers from Urban Outfitters. I liked their whimsy and incorporated them into this card.

Sadly, Boston doesn't have memorable architecture like SF. I mean I guess I could pick out the night skyline if there was the Citgo sign.

Watercolor pencil, stickers, pen