Snuggle Shark

This is my second submission for the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery Small Stuff 6 exhibit. Our seven month old daughter is super snuggly...until she bites. She got some teeth early and while nursing she would bite me! So this is for you, Vivienne, my little snuggle shark.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Don't you hate when someone posts Christmas things really early? Oh yeah, that's what I did on my last post, haha. So for those of you I annoyed I did something quick today to celebrate Halloween. Have fun trick-or-treating and stay safe. My girls will be little tigers this year.

Oh Deer!

Here is another piece for Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery "Small Stuff 6" exhibit. I might put "Hanami & Plumes" on my Etsy account, since it's a little bare, and do a few more holiday pieces for the Small Stuff exhibit. I used a lot of deer references and did some quick sketching of some photographs I found online, then my husband pointed out that reindeer are actually based on caribou! I assumed reindeer are in the catagory of unicorns and dragons but after some research, and feeling quite dumb, I sketched some caribou. I hate when he is right! Haha

Doc McStuffins

 

Here's a birthday gift for one of my favorite 5 year old's! Happy birthday Hopie, I hope you like your gift.

Paper & Gouache

Momo

 Someone special is having a birthday this weekend and she happens to be a fellow Avatar fan ( and she's only 3=)). Her favorite character is Momo so I had to do a little something for her birthday present. If you don't know what "Avatar" is, and you either refer to the blue people or the horrible movie that was made after the series, please do yourself a favor and watch the entire animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" so your life will be better;)

Paper & Gouache

Mermaid Lagoon

 This is my piece for the Peter Pan & Wendy exhibit for Susanita's Little Gallery. http://www.susanitaslittlegallery.com/. Making a piece for Peter Pan's Mermaid Lagoon has been a fantasy of mine since I was a little girl. This exhibit is not based on the Disney film but on J.M. Barrie's novel Peter Pan & Wendy.

Medium used: Paper and Gouache

Bell's Handcrafts

If you notice that my Etsy account is looking a little bare it's because a wonderful store called Bell's Handcrafts in Newnan, Georgia is having their grand opening in February and I was asked to be one of the many artists contributing. I am honored and excited to have my paper sculptures displayed and sold and I hope to visit one day soon. Above are some pictures of the store after its remodel.

Deja Vu-Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Deja Vu! I was commissioned to do another of the Harry Potter pieces by a client/collector for Gallery Nucleus, the first one was sold on my Etsy account and bought by a collector in Europe. It was an honor to work with them again and I'm so thankful to have been able to get it done before Christmas for the client.

"Ally Gal"

 

Paper, gouache, marker, colored pencils

A very happy 110th birthday today to Mr. Walt Disney!! If I could have lunch with one person from history it would be him.

Haunted Mansion's "Ally Gal"

It has been over a month since I last posted. Sorry for the delay, we found out we were expecting after trying for a very long time so we are excited and ready for the new addition. I have been not feeling well until now so I'm finally back to the drawing (more like cutting) board=).
Recently we all went to Disneyland and I couldn't wait to either do a Mary Blair or a Haunted Mansion piece so I decided to do the Ally Gal girl. I'm using the Clem Hall version and not Marc Davis' (no disrespect to the late, great Marc Davis I just chose to do the one I think I grew up with). Included is both art pieces so you can appreciate the crazy/beautiful of both. (Left: Clem Hall, Right: Marc Davis)

"Breakfast for Skeksis" is being put on hold for a little while unless someone is interested in purchasing him sooner.

Happy 60th Birthday

LuLu

I was commissioned to do a piece for a beautiful new baby girl. This is her crib bedding that her mommy picked out so the paper sculpture will hopefully look great in the nursery. There are two cute frogs peeking out of the flowers.

Happy 60th Birthday

This is a recent commission piece for a mothers 60th birthday celebration, it's nostalgic and has her love of all things Texas. I learned all about Texas with this project and yet know nothing of my own state, California. Texas' state insect is the Monarch Butterfly, State bird is the Mockingbird and state tree is the Pecan. I should be finished with it in the next week or so.

Breakfast for Skeksis

I've been wanting to take a little break from the girly (even though I do love me some pink) and do something darker and maybe something from my childhood. So after getting some Jim Henson inspiration I decided to do a Skeksis from The Dark Crystal. The Podlings are never shown in the rib cage of the Skeksis but I thought they were and after watching the movie for research for this piece I decided to do it anyway because I thought it would look cool, especially in paper. I hope you all like it, especially all those of you who also grew up with me in the 80's.

Below are some references I used

 Leontine Greenberg is the artist for this last piece, entitled "Hello, Mr. Skeksis"

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Cinderella has always been my favorite all around Disney movie for so many reasons, it was fun to be able to do this piece. Although it looks exactly like the Disney movie and nothing like the Disney movie at the same time there was a lot of research, references, color studies, thumbnails ect that went into it=) I do this same process for most of my work.


Paper, gouache, Prismacolor markers and colored pencils.

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo-Sneak Peek

We are going on a short vacay for the week and I'm just bringing my pencil, paper and some art books.. I've still got a lot to do on this project but since the characters are mostly done it shouldn't take me that much longer when we return.

Joyeux

I always envisioned "Joyeux" in a cage swinging on her perch but I couldn't think of a way to do it until I went to a store today and found this, I couldn't wait to get home to redo it. I always thought of her and the book by Maya Angelou "Why the Caged Bird Sings."