New watercolor painting! From the Russian fairy tale, Baba Yaga. This is Vasilissa with her doll, and the sleeping witch behind her.
One version of the story can be read on the SurLaLune Fairy Tales website (what a fantastic site!)
In two days I am off to Comic-Con San Diego!!!!! My first time!
Ta-da!!! I have finally given my website a new look after over two years. Was definitely overdue for one. Cleaned it up some, easier to update, all around just made it better. Check it out!
I have officially joined the gang over at Running With Paintbrushes, so go check it out! We will be doing monthly-ish projects. Without a job and a due-date, sometimes it’s difficult for artists to think of ideas and actually make art. At least, that’s the truth in my case! I enjoy having due-dates. So this blog is great for keeping us active and getting feedback. I need to get myself in gear and give my portfolio new life. When I’m not getting payed to make art, well… I am ashamed to say I get very lazy.
In Running With Paintbrushes, Becca Solow and myself will concentrate on childrens book illustration. Scott Murphy and Owen Weber will concentrate on scifi/fantasy illustration. In our next project, Becca and I are making work based on the fairy tale Baba Yaga. We’ve already posted sketches!
And in other news, I am working on constructing a new website for myself. Want a very simple clean one that is easier to update. Woo!
Hello everyone! I am back from IMC 2010 and freshened up and AWAKE. Back to the ole grind but with lots of fresh ideas in my head. Can’t wait to get started on the next piece!!! Time to revitalize my portfolio (and website).
Here is the final piece:
And here are some in progress images – color studies, and various stages of painting (a new way of watercolor painting for me, too!). I tried the Dulac method (taught to us by the marvelous and incomparable Rebecca Guay). The paper wasn’t appropriate though and I ended up having to change the technique so it wouldn’t be a mess:
To sum up IMC – it was an incredible week with inspiring faculty and awesome hilarious entertaining fellow students. So many amazing artists! So much learning to be had! I kind of want to go again next year… ugggh. or at least the year after. I want to travel next summer. Hmm! 
Quick post – IMC is the most amazing week-long class ever!!!! I actually finished my painting early, so I’m about to start brainstorming for another (:
Photo taken the other day when the image was still in progress. (and behind me, a Rebecca Guay mini-painting she did as a demo… she’s so coooool)
The time has come! Tomorrow we leave early in the morning for Amherst, with a lunch stop to visit Becca and Scott’s former professor/amazing illustrator Dennis Nolan. We had to have a final sketch in preparation for critiques from the class and faculty. Here is mine! I’m pretty pumped to work on this. Again, check out Running with Paintbrushes to see more sketches from me as well as the work of Becca and Scott.
Beauty and the Beast
Anyway, it’s 11pm and I still have to pack and print some stuff. Eep!! Definitely gonna need my delicious Brooklyn Bagel iced coffee in the morning… mmm.
