Digital collage with a blackbird
New Art
Last Traces of Fog – my 12 x 16 cm contribution to #TAE20
New Blossoms for the 6 x 6 x 6 show at the Alberta Street Gallery
Character for TAE 2018 – colored pencil, 12 x 16 cm
Finally mailed my postcard art to the Twitter Art Exhibit (TAE) today. I blame Creatacolor pencils for the delay. It was my first time trying oil-based colored pencils, and as a Prismacolor/Derwent girl I found their behavior way too different. This year TAE helps an Australian charity, Pegasus Riding For The Disabled of ACT Inc., http://www.pegasusact.com.au/. […]
Golden Lilies for the Twitter Art Exhibit
Updated 6/6/17: My Golden Lilies are now coming back to their new (hopefully happy) US home because somebody saw them online and in their words, could not resist. Funny how art travels sometimes 🙂 An experiment with gel pens. It will be a part of the Twitter Art Exhibit that this year supports Molly Olly’s […]
Small commission for a small horse person
Did a sketch for a girl who loves horses (should probably be in all capitals and blinking) and dreams of riding her own horse one day. Until then, a very own drawing of her favorite 4-H equine will have to suffice. This is a Birthday gift to her from her big sister.
Paradise – a miniature on canvas
A kind visitor at the third weekend of recent Open Studios came up with the title, not me. I often draw during SVOS. People like to see how art is created, and whatever I am working on easily becomes a conversation piece. Sometimes I get a free benefit of getting stuff named for me. The […]
Gathering V (rocks in pen and ink, 4″ x 4″) finished
This last little drawing completes the “Gathering” series. It going to be a while before I want to anything other than single drawings. The original ($80.00) and prints are available in my online shop as a part of the “Pen and ink” collection. See the first four pieces in this series:
Gathering IV (rocks in pen and ink, 4″ x 4″) finished
The fourth piece in the “Gathering” series got no horses, it is dedicated to the beauty of many rock patterns. I think I will do the final piece the same way, without any representative images. Most comments that I get about this series is about the beauty of rocks themselves it seems fitting to get […]
Artist trading card exchange at CAG – fall 2014
As usual, the ATC exchange at CAG today was a lot of fun. Here are my contributions to the event: I love how the fall edition of the ATC exchange happens around my Birthday. This year it’s on a day before, so I got four early Birthday gifts:
After the Rain (miniature)
Here is my newest tiny digital canvas. I haven’t done any for a few months and completely forgot my past experience with colored pencil on this kind of surface. It is a bit slippery and does not allow to build up really dark darks unless you carefully plan for them from the beginning and use […]
Gathering III (rocks in pen and ink, 6″ x 4″) – in progress
Updated: October 26, 2014 It’s finished. I like how it turned out more than the first two pieces in the series. The original ($80.00) and prints are available in my online shop as a part of the “Pen and ink” collection. Updated: October 17, 2014 So most of my ideas are not suitable for small […]
Stranger
I was asked more than once why I don’t draw owls, and given the fact that they are my next favorite animals after horses it really begs the question. My explanation so far was that it’s far easier to obtain my own horse reference which is always preferred over free and inexpensive options that can […]
Muncher
Squirrels are our little chatty neighbors who dig out everything I ever tried to plant in the patio. Even garlic is not safe with them. I would never believe that a squirrel can be interested in garlic cloves if I hadn’t seen with my own eyes how a squirrel hurries up a tree with a […]
Furry explorer
Raccoons are adorable as long as you do not stand between them and what they think is their food or keep a healthy distance from them in general. I imagine gardeners don’t appreciate living side by side with them, but not being one I enjoy every encounter, be it in the wilderness or in the […]
Ghostly white horse
University Art carries something I never saw before: a canvas mounted on a cardboard. 5″ x 7″ pieces are sold unprotected, unlike canvases and real sturdy canvas boards. They come in white and black versions. Naturally, I had to buy both to see what can be done with them. This white horse was done on […]
Into the Woods (miniature)
Into the Woods (Miniature) – colored pencil on canvas, 3.5" x 2.5" The original miniature ($35.00) is available in my Miniatures online gallery.
Gathering II
As busy as this year’s Silicon Valley Open Studios were, I managed to snatch up some time for drawing. The result is the second piece in the “Gatherings” series that was finished yesterday a couple of hours before the last day of Open Studios in front of the Cupertino Library was over. Thank you everybody […]
Artist trading card exchange at CAG
I planned to try something new with ATC for this exchange at CAG: galloping horse hooves, parts of horse faces, or something like that. Instead, I ended up with four whole horse heads. Maybe the fact that Newborn is taking longer than anticipated to get finished has something to do with it, I don’t know. […]
Overlooked Beauty
Lady’s smock (cuckoo flowers) are tiny and very unassuming when we walk past them or over them. Their beautiful purple, lilac, and whitish colors is about all that can be easily appreciated when they form a patch. I love shooting and drawing little things like these and then look closely at the shapes, lines, and […]
White Fantasy
White Fantasy (miniature) – “graphite pencil on canvas, 3.5″ x 2.5” This is my latest miniature partly inspired by a very cold and snowy winter of 2011-2012 and partly made because right now here in California it’s overly warm and sunny even by local standards. In the process of bringing winter closer to me I […]
Artist trading card exchange at CAG
Yesterday at the meeting in the Campbell Artists’ Guild we had an artist trading card exchange. This is what I brought, they are my experiments with metal pens and markers combined with colored pencils: And this is what I got in return: Pretty wonderful extra gifts for my Birthday! 🙂
On the Way series at the KALEID Gallery
The new three piece series, On the Way, and another small work, Gathering I, will be a part of the upcoming annual HARK! exhibit and sale at the KALEID Gallery. The On the Way series is my exploration of people in transit, both literally, on foot, and metaphorically as a state of mind, the experience. […]
A new piece at the Art Under $200 exhibit at the Pacific Art League
I am pleased to announce that both my pieces submitted to the Art Under $200 exhibit at the Pacific Art League have been accepted. You probably saw this one already: And this is a new artwork that was not shown anywhere else yet: The opening reception for the exhibit will be a part of the […]
River of Light
This is another piece in the “small landscapes” series that was started long time ago, survived a two year interruption, and is finally getting done. It’s always difficult to pick the pencils again when you almost don’t remember what you had in mind in the beginning. But as a nice exception to the rule, this […]
Gathering (a rocky one)
Commission a similar drawing This one started as an exercise after I haven’t done any pointillism in more than a year. In the process of getting the feel of the pen again I began to see a composition in the bunch of rock textures and from that point treated the small drawing more seriously. The […]
Further experimenting with canvases
Looking back at all my attempts to make colored pencils play nice with the digital canvas, I have to admit that they certainly prefer a traditional linen one. So the blank digital canvases that I still have will be used for other media. For example, a graphite pencil: Miniature – graphite pencil on canvas, 3.5″ […]
Miniature on canvas with a boardwalk
This one was created with Derwent Coloursoft pencils, not my usual Prismacolor. The good thing is that these pencils are really, really soft and blend together easily. The bad thing is that in just a few layers it becomes impossible to add more color. The next stroke tries to lift off what’s already on the […]