spring 2010

Spring is here! I base this not on the calender but on the fact that I saw flowers for the first time today. So I decided to go walk in the woods, and I took my camera along with me.

I love the natural patterns on this stump

even the slimy mucky pond is pretty today

trash :(

ahhhh.. this makes me want to go swimming.



I'm glad that it's finally warming up.. this was such a nice day compared to the week of rain that came before it. I hope that it continues to stay nice, I want a long spring!

Its been a while..

I need to post regularly! I actually spent a long time not even using the internet except for email and an occasional search. It had a lot to do with being busy, and having a computer that was so slow from 4 years of junk. But it's been wiped clean, and I am ready for action once again.

So commence with images!

"Hydra" mixed media collage

Contact sheet from class. Digital printed on gloss

Unfinished drawing. mechanical pencil

And a picture of my studio! (a small little table at school.) This shows my paint pallet, and a painting in progress, along with a few other experiments

polymer clay LEDs

I had fun trying to replicate LED lights, and a LED board. It's all made out of different colored polymer clay, with only a few pieces of jewelry wire as the prongs on the individual LED lights. The board is an actual replica of a board I saw online. I have no idea how it actually works, or what it does, since I've only ever soldered a board once in my life (very successfully though)

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.

Winter birds

I hope everyone had a good holiday season, I have been quite busy but managed to find a little time to relax in between. Today especially! I set out a couple of day old biscutts and some sunflower seeds, and Sat quietly by the window with my camera waiting for some hungry birds.







Photographing these birds was difficult, as they quickly flew in, grabbed seeds and then flew back high up in the trees for safe eating. They know we have a cat lurking around somewhere, but I was wise enough to keep the feather -lusty beast inside today.

It's been a little while

Sorry for the slowness in post activity... college has me up to my eyes in work to be done, leaving me with little time to update here!


As mentioned before... I made a accordion-fold book with different sushi and patterned backgrounds. Ink with colored pencils.



These are some of the things I am selling at my college's holiday sale.. hand bound sketchbooks, earrings, printed cards, rings and broaches

Lastly, a ink painting of students in my class. Higgins and Indian ink, on watercolor paper.

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

Hawaii photos, round two

I did a lot of snorkeling on the trip, as Hawaii has some very beautiful clear waters. However the cheap underwater cameras managed to only take cloudy pictures that didn't represent the beauty of the ocean. We stopped at the Maui aquarium where I took some clearer photos.

aloha aloha!

So you may have noticed the lack of updates for a week or two, and that is because I was in Hawaii for two weeks! But now I am back, with a tan and lots of beautiful pictures!



          A beautiful flower near a waterfall in Maui. Called a "Torch Ginger" They have large 5 foot stems

Wild rooster! There were lots of wild chickens and roosters on the island. Called a "Jungle fowl cock" these animals really have no predators, not even people, as they are apparently very tough and not of a good quality for eating.

This is a adolescent version of the "common myna" bird... these guys were everywhere... trying to swindle food out of tourists, and squawking loudly. This little guy didn't seem to know much better and so I got pretty close to him as he stared inquisitively at me.

There were lots of wild cats on the islands too! this little fella was just sitting out in a state park... mewing loudly, looking for the rest of his clan. He didn't run away from me, but he wouldn't let me get close to him.

The smallest little lizard I saw at a botanical garden. This little guy was about the size of my whole thumb!

A Mongoose! I was out eating lunch next to this little waterfall, and a couple of these guys were scurrying around in the grasses nearby. I managed to coax him out with a bit of bread off of my sandwich.

It was truly a pleasure to observe the beauty of so many unfamiliar birds

That's all for now