Scary movie

Can’t not do a Halloween-themed picture! (But I really just wanted to draw a peacock eating chips.) 😄

Snake Bird

I dunno, I like the concept of imaginary exotic pets.

Holiday Peacock

Happy holidays from this Christmas themed  (and very quickly colored) peacock!

Happy Halloween!

I’m still alive – it’s just been a year of insanity + procrastination. So trying to get back into the art thing. Here’s a lil’ cat and ghosty creature surprised by each other on Halloween night.  Hand drawn ink with digital color.

Leu Gardens

A couple months ago before the cold hit, I did a quick little photo trip to Leu Gardens in Orlando (Winter Park, really). I’ve always loved this place! Pieces of it were still closed from the hurricane, but there was plenty to see.

 

Sky Whale

I did this for an art trade at the suggestion of someone who liked whales and wanted a whale with a fantasy element. We both have a photography interest that overlaps with nature and stars, so this is what I came up with. Art trade ended up not happening, but I thought I would at least share here.

 

Star Wars

Happy New Year! I’m a -little- obsessed with Star Wars right now. Just a little. Tried a slightly different approach than usual for this sketch of these force kiddos from the OT and the new one. I realize everyone has one eye that’s sized wrong and not sure how that happened and why I didn’t see it earlier! Oh well.

 

Happy Holidays!

My little X-mas card design for this year – the year I got to meet an alpaca in person! Merry Christmas!

Revival

I didn’t abandon you, WordPress! Life is just kicking my ass in unexpected ways right now. A most unpleasant curveball this December. Life is certainly never easy. Anyway! I promise to update more frequently after this. For now, some of my fav recent photos:

Blue Springs squirrel, backyard hawk:

Supermoon (slightly not full):

Flower at Leu Gardens:

Fall décor in Michigan:

Fireworks in Boca Raton:

Shell Wall Hanging

A couple years ago I picked up some awesome shells at Cumberland Island and made a bunch into candles (see post here), but I had some cute smaller ones leftover and wanted to put them somewhere they could be seen. So I came across this really plain, cheap shadow box at Michaels and decided to make a display.

(Forgive the crappy photos; there are all with my cell phone.) I just left them in there for a few months until I got off my butt to work on it.

This is so easy, you need only a few supplies: the shadow box (obviously), a brush, whatever paint you want, sandpaper, aluminum foil to use as a palette for the paint, and newspaper to protect your workspace. Craft stores sell little $1 bottles of cheap acrylic that would have been perfect, but I didn’t have those and didn’t feel like making an extra trip, so I just used real acrylics (I don’t recommend, waste of money, plus the black tends to dry glossy, which isn’t what you want.)

I wasn’t exactly sure what color scheme I wanted, so I did a few mock ups in Photoshop (I have green walls). This is the one I decided on.

So simple! And the final product on the wall:

So, maybe I went too easy with it because you can see a couple little blops of white paint on the glass. Oops! I probably could get those off. Also, this is after it’s been up for a couple weeks… see the line below the bottom shells? That’s sand/shell particles. I cleaned the shells and brushed them off repeatedly, but still – so FYI you probably will have to open the case and do that a few times.