Watercolor times! sea shells

A couple of paintings done for my watercolor class


 I love the beautiful patterns that kosher salt makes on watercolor paintings. My teacher really liked this one, and said that I should make a set of shell paintings like this, and that I could sell those to a card company.

The shell I chose is really different than the other ones that were chosen by the rest of the students, this one had a beautiful pattern on it, and is small and round. The others are large with lots of sharp edges that cause dramatic shadows. My teacher has commended me for choosing a shell that's so hard to paint, but I've enjoyed the challenge of trying to paint the pattern so that it looks like its a part of the shell. (I don't think I've achieved this just yet, but maybe by the end of the class I will)This clearly is not a shell, but I had so much fun doing the rainbow shell painting I decided to do another one while it dried. A piece of sushi was a easy and simple shape to render quickly. Also I was probably craving sushi at the time...

Illustration Friday: Chicken

My quick little watercolor drawing for Illustration Friday. My family actually owns chickens (we don't have a farm... my parents just thought it would be fun to have some chickens so now there is a little coop in the yard) and this is a "portrait" of one of them. He actually was killed when a fox broke in to the coop a year or two ago, poor fellow.

Cabin on the Ocean

Summer 2010


I should have done this post back in summertime when it actually occurred, but I was too busy living a vagabond lifestyle.
But I'm sure these pictures can still be enjoyable now.

cottage times, right on the beach!

Squeaky room

Antique store

Sorry buddy :(

seashell shop


beautiful beaches all over the place

Did I mention this was on Cape Cod? Spent a week in a cottage on the beach in a town right next to P-town. I've been going there since I was a little rosy-cheeked young girl.

quick art post

Very busy... but here's something I've done recently


"lobotomoptopus" illustration for children's alphabet book. full double page spread. Not the final,
there's another version that is cleaned up, more detailed and with text. Gouache


And then here's an old painting I did, which I found on my old flash drive. Goes along with the children book theme.

I like the bear the best. watercolor and ink

sushi book- finished

I posted the progress of a little sushi book i was making, and I finished it promptly after I had posted, but forgot to post more pictures. So here we are!


it's a simple, silly little book, like a shrine to my love of sushi. I enjoyed the process of making it, and it was done relatively quickly making it a satisfying rather than frustrating project, which is what I feel when working on detailed and deeply conceptual works.

Art post

Art post, Random drawings from the past few weeks

Hawaii bird, colored pencil

Painting of my Buddha statue, ink and watercolor

Fish painting, ink and watercolor