Easter Egg Plant

While painting Easter eggs my son, Miles asked me to draw him a picture of an Easter egg plant. I loved this concept so here it is... an Easter egg plant or three with a cute little bunny. 

Garden Bird

Lately I've been obsessing over gouache paint. I love that it's similar to watercolor in the way it can be rewet to be used again after it dries and that it's semi to completely opaque depending on the color and water to paint ratio used.

So here I am writing about gouache paint and how much I love it so it would seem that this painting I'm presenting in this blog post is gouache but it's not. I have to be honest, it's a digital painting. However, I did download a set of gouache paint brushes that can be purchased on creativemarket.com. These $7.00 brushes were created by an artist named Kyle Webster and were recommended to me by one of my digital illustration instructors. At first I was skeptical because I've purchased plenty of digital brushes in the past only to be disappointed by the low quality or digital look of them, these brushes however have none of that. They actually behave a lot like real gouache, the quality is AMAZING and once I got the hang of them I really enjoyed creating this painting with them. While my digital painting skills are not exactly where they need to be (yet), I think it is a good reflection of how well the brushes work. 

This painting is available for sale on Society 6 an art print, pillow, tote bag and more. 

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Angel on the Other Side

From way back in the day: Auntie Diane on the left & my mother on the right. 

I wrote this for my cousins who lost their mother a few days ago. And for my uncle who lost his partner in life, his wife. 

Angel on the Other Side

They say you’re on the other side. 
Where is that? A place so far away.
A place I can’t see. 

If you’re on the other side,
why is it that when I close my eyes, 
I’m met with memories so vivid and real. 
I can smell your skin and hear your laugh. 

This other side, it just can’t be. 
These memories are like roads
Twisting and turning
They are fast and slow
I fear I am lost. 
No matter how hard I try,
I just can’t find the other side. 

Suddenly you appear, hand on my chest. 
And then you say:
Relax my love. I’m resting in your heart. 
Beating with you and for you.
I’ll be your music and we’ll travel on together. 
Love always, your angel on the other side.

I'm All Over the Place

I'm all over the place! Or at least I feel like I am. These past few weeks have been a bit crazy for me. In an effort to get school over with faster I increased my course load. Simultaneously, my work load also increased... and so did the ballet practices for my girls! When it rains it pours right? Regardless, I know this is only temporary and this period of being uncomfortably busy is actually forcing me to be a little more decisive in my creative process. And when I'm decisive, I find I'm more productive :) Perhaps I should just stay busy for the sake of making good art. 

Anyway, here are two little illustrations I did this week for one of my classes. 

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An illustrated "set design" for school

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