miss janice draws

Janice Chuang is an artist + illustrator in San Francisco

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I’ve got a limited edition Taiwan postcard set coming out soon! With some really cute packaging :) Stay tuned. #traveltaiwan #persimmon #taiwanillustration #イラストレーター #イラストレーション #foodjournal #fooddrawing #foodillustration #foodpainting #watercolorfood #ごはん記録 #レシピイラスト #レシピ本 #レシピブック #mealdiary #taipeifood #taiwanfood #taiwanfoodie #台湾美食 #食べ物イラスト #cfmwatercolors #caseformakingwatercolors #caseformaking #womenwhodraw #womenwithpencils #Taipei #Taiwan #台北 #台灣 #janicechuang (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br748t6B60J/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12vha0h0yqrzf

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“With Love From Taiwan” postcard pack now available for purchase! Link in profile. • Also check out the packaging and the little place-stamp-here graphic! Recognize this museum-famous vegetable? #traveltaiwan #persimmon #taiwanillustration #イラストレーター #イラストレーション #foodjournal #fooddrawing #foodillustration #foodpainting #watercolorfood #ごはん記録 #レシピイラスト #レシピ本 #レシピブック #mealdiary #taipeifood #taiwanfood #taiwanfoodie #台湾美食 #食べ物イラスト #cfmwatercolors #caseformakingwatercolors #caseformaking #womenwhodraw #womenwithpencils #Taipei #Taiwan #台北 #台灣 #janicechuang (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br--WORhb_P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wlmewi5xgxr3

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Unagi set drawn while @misscharlene was in the bathroom. The tamago-yaki (not pictured) was especially good. #foodjournal #fooddrawing #foodillustration #watercolorfood #イラストレーター #イラストレーション #ごはん記録 #レシピイラスト #レシピ本 #レシピブック #mealdiary #blackwing #cfmwatercolors #caseformakingwatercolors #caseformaking #womenwhodraw #womenwithpencils #taipeifood #taiwanfood #taiwanfoodie #肥前屋 #肥前屋鰻魚 #台北 #台灣 #台湾美食 #janicechuang (at 肥前屋) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpzKo7thIzJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mep8ayc7atq7

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Some of my favorite mixes from my @caseformaking watercolor chart. At first I was annoyed with myself for not being able to get a perfectly even coat in every (or any) square (and even those are wobbly!), but now I love staring into these pools of color. Look at how the pigments separate a bit and you can see the flow of the water, and some even look like they’re pulsating. Kind of hypnotic, right? #handmadewatercolors #caseformaking #cfmwatercolors #caseformakingwatercolors #watercolorchart #mixingchart #水彩 #水彩画 #水彩畫 #janicechuang https://www.instagram.com/p/BnGZGHllhPM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16rrx6ceq7hxw

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Low-tech markers are so fun to draw with. ✏️ You can also take a wet paintbrush to the tip of a marker and dab the color off like a watercolor! #blablakids #イラストレーター #イラストレーション #mermaidillustration #childrensillustration #childrensillustrations #janicechuang https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm27Pz6FaDg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rxs4dhhk08gy

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The neons you can with these watercolors! #watercolorchart #mixingchart #水彩 #水彩画 #水彩畫 #イラストレーター #イラストレーション #animalillustration #animalillustrations #watercoloranimals #watercolorbirds #barnaclegoose #bbcearth #janicechuang https://www.instagram.com/p/BmtvvPFlzOb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3cx1ngsyfduh

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Watermelon slice, up close and personal.

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More birdwatching, this time on Fillmore St. @mudpiesf! 🦆 The watercolor mixing chart I made the other day (see past post) really helped in figuring out how to make these subtly different colors. Sometimes the parent colors are not what you’d expect!

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Thank you to everyone who came to my show! (“My” haha—there were over 100 artists exhibiting their work, but this was my first, so please excuse my excitement.) The cans are available for purchase in a limited edition of 20 (only 20 of each will ever be made), so DM me if you’re interested! Also useful to have around in times of emergency (food inside is good till 2020)☝🏻

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Swatching out my new watercolor set from @caseformaking. I picked out all these amazing colors myself—yes to multiple pinks! And please note that super beautiful moment of the jade green bleeding into the candy blue ↑ And no primary colors (on purpose), although now I’m wondering what happens when I need a yellow..

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256 beautiful hues mixed out of 16 watercolors! A color chart is used to explore the possibilities of your palette, and it’s amazing the range I discovered I have with mine—from fluorescents to smoky earth tones to glossy darks. During these many hours 😰 mixing all these combinations, I also learned so much about the quirks of each color/paint: anything mixed with Pistachio Lake ends up with a shimmery finish, Buff Titanium makes colors muted and buttery, everything mixed with Sky Blue Lake dries into ripples of subtley separated colors, French Vermilion will take over every color mixture if you’re not careful.. And that watercolors are not as easy to paint smoothly as nail polish!

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Barnacle goose, as seen on “Chicks Jump Off Cliff” on @bbcearth. The chickies squeaking their way down the mountain are cute, but how chic is this mama bird? • Media: tiny pencils + new watercolors.

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As much as I love to eat, I do not like cooking. Wait, let me rephrase—I don’t like HAVING to cook. And I always felt like when I was in the kitchen, the food was getting cooked (as in it was no longer raw) but it certainly wasn’t delicious, and I hate to fill my stomach with anything substandard. But may I announce that the tide is changing! My amazing chef friend @atnimara guided me through some basic concepts, and dare I say cooking is starting to feel quite relaxing...?

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A lot of work went into these Chinese canned food labels, so I wanted to share with you what I did! First, I made pencil drawings of the clam/greens/mushrooms, and wrote out the Chinese characters in marker and then traced the outlines in pencil. Scanned them in, colorized them red (on the computer) because I felt a colored outline would look more interesting and more Chinese. Then I printed them out on good paper, and added color with watercolor. I actually did three versions of each to make sure I’d end up with selections that would work well together as a set. I then scanned THAT artwork back in, and placed it in the label file that I’d already designed in Illustrator. Printed the labels out on an inkjet, and ran them through the laser printer to print the parts I wanted in gold foil (the foil adheres to black toner). Applied the foil on those parts, and ran it through a heat press. (I’m amazed the paper survived three rounds of stress!) And finally, the labels were trimmed and wrapped around the cans. Whew! Thanks for reading! #foodillustration #packagingdesign #packagedesign #CCSF #イラストレーター #イラストレーション #labeldesign #Chinoiserie #botanicals #chinesetypography #chinesetype #chinesedesign #asiantypography #janicechuang

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Building a collection // Would there be any interest in a zine or book of all my shoe drawings? I’ve got 38 so far and I’m still aiming for 100! 🙈 Kudos to anyone who’s finished a 100-day anything; it is not easy.

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Making + sending more of these babies out today 💌 These Chinese red envelopes 紅包 are still available in my Etsy shop! Perfect for your cash gifts during wedding season 🎊

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038/100 Days of Shoes • Channeling my inner surfer girl 〰️ I’ve been making these wave-y, vintage-Cali-surf geometric patterns (inspired by my Moon River cotton boxes) and drawing my shoes on top of those prints. It feels good to do something new with something familiar!