So Fruity!

Happy April!
I have been busy working on lots of new art! I am participating in Girls Drawin Girls upcoming book, which i mentioned in the last post. The theme of the book is flora and fauna and I got apple. That drawing inspired me to work on a series of fruit themed pin ups! My loose inspiration was vintage fruit crate labels. I have four completed which I plan to sell as a print set. I love the way they turned out! Check em out! what do you think?


I am working on another series, which I don't want to talk about yet, but is different for me, but also a lot of fun.

New Art

I have spent most of this year experimenting with new drawing techniques and themes and styles, and so far I am very happy with the result. I have also been revisiting my paper cut out artwork, which I have always loved to do and seemed to be my most popular. I still enjoy the more realistic style of artwork that I have been working on for many years, but I feel I am ready to try some new things while staying true to what I love. I have to say, my new gig with snapfish really helped me start to think outside of my usual style and I have enjoyed it a lot. I have amassed quite a collection of designs, and right now I am working on getting some products together to have a table at a craft fair! I am definitely interested in doing Brooklyn artists and fleas, and am pleased with what I have so far.
I also mentioned I am going to be participating in my very first book with Girls Drawin Girls, and I felt inspired to try something completely new, yet still recognizable as my own. The theme I had for the book was apples and here she is:
What do you think? I am loving her!
I've also been looking over my artwork past and present, and there doesn't seem to be much racial diversity :/ its not intentional, I just usually draw the same people (Bernie Dexter most of all) but its definitely become a priority to focus less on specific people.

I'm excited about doing new work and changing things up a bit! Maybe its the impending warmer weather?

February already?

Hello out there!
I have been neglecting my blog and I feel terrible about that. I have been pretty busy lately, and I haven't had a chance to do much new artwork! Any free time I have has gone to designing cards for my snapfish store. I added some new prints to my etsy, but they don't seem to be doing very well at all--Anybody out there have any tips and/ or suggestions on selling on etsy?
Anyway, I wanted to share some of my most recent designs for snapfish, because it seems I haven't ever really posted my designs on here, and I am quite proud of them. So check them out, and hop on over to my snapfish page if you want to see more, or even purchase one (some? hahaha)
For Valentines Day:
I am quite proud of this little owl design! It is selling so much better than I expected, as it is the top selling non-photo valentines day card on all of snapfish! I have also been selling 8x10 prints of this design on my etsy.
Here are some more Valentine's Day cards I designed.
there are, of course, many more cards in the works! I really wish I could be as successful selling my cards myself as I am on snapfish. Maybe one day!

Mistress of the Dark

Hi all! Here is a new vector drawing I just completed, it is a portrait of the one and only Elvira Mistress of the Dark. This was a lot of fun to work on! Elvira is the perfect combination of sexy pin up, and hilarious kitch, and a character I remember from my youth.

Mistress of the Dark:

Adobe Illustrator CS4, August 2010

Feelin' Yummy

So here is my painting for the Girls Drawin Girls Bitter/Sweet Valentines show :)

Go check out the show if you are in the LA area!

Feelin' Yummy:

Oil on gesso board, 11"x14" February 2010

Girls Drawin Girls presents "Bitter/Sweet: A Valentine Show"

I will have a painting in the next Girls Drawin Girls show, Friday February 12 in Los Angeles. Check it out! Unfortunately I can't be there, as it is in LA and I am in NYC but if anyone reading this will be in the area, go check it out, and maybe buy some valentines art for your sweetie :) Its going to be a fun night of art, music and performances!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Confection

Here's a new drawing I did which came out fun! I love her hair and need to draw read heads more often. This one was based on Brigitte Bardot, one of the great beauties in my opinion :)

Confection:

Adobe Illustrator CS3, October 2009

Paper Cut Outs

After I graduated from SVA in 2003, I began experimenting with different styles and techniques. One style I really enjoyed was this paper cutout style. Sadly I don't have time to work this way anymore, but I wanted to share these on here. I plan to continue these sometime in the future. They're from about 2003.

Paper on illustration board 2003

This one felt cuter without faces. Paper on illustration board 2003

One of the very first ones not very detailed--I got a little better after this one

Paper on llustration board 2003