Just finished a new illustration for Pepperdine University’s production of Songfest—a musical extravaganza. This year’s theme is History in the Making, so I drew a Mayan-inspired temple with hand-drawn type that is being hoisted up in place—literally depicting history in the making! The illustration was sketched in pencil, inked over, then colored digitally in Photoshop with overlay layers of paper textures to create an old world vibe.
My painting Moon Dream was recently featured on Lime.com to accompany an article about gender freedom.
Wedding Venues & Services magazine, published in the United Kingdom, will be featuring an illustration of mine with one of their feature stories in their next issue! More to come later…
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I had the opportunity to create this festive card for Southern Bride magazine this season. I had been playing around with sketches for my own holiday card featuring a girl in a candy cane dreamland, and thought this wonderland would be beautiful with a happy bride in her gown and veil, decked out in diamonds, with diamond snow drops falling all around her. This is how it all turned out!
Wishing everyone a fun-filled holiday and a totally fabulous 2009!
“Candy Cane Wonderland”
Watercolor on Paper, 18″ x 24″
Inspirations: Candy Canes, Watermelons, baking sugar cookies and funky cupcakes, “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Mele Kalikimaka” (the Hawaiian Christmas Song)
Watercolor on Paper, 8″ x12.5″
Inspirations: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, which I’m currently reading….fireflies, Chinese temple art, weeping willows, and catching butterflies with my sister when I was a kid.
[This was originally developed for Illustration Friday's concept of "foggy"]
