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My final painting of 2025 is this little memorial for a cute boy named Bug. One of his tricks was howling on command, so it felt very appropriate to give him the Three Wolf Moon treatment here ;)
Someday I will figure out how to properly scan/edit my acrylic paintings without losing the softness and subtle color transitions of the original piece, but today is not that day lol.
Acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches.
Another pretty kitty commission! This cute boy is named Ninja, shown here being silly with his favorite toy. Watercolor and gouache on hot press paper, 8 x 10 inches.
Continuing this post with another pride bird, this time a nightjar sporting the gorgeous colors of the non-binary flag (as an ace I'm definitely a sucker for purple and black lol). I know it's hard to feel positive as a queer person nowadays, but if this artwork brightens a non-binary person's day for even a moment, then I can consider it a success. There have always been more than two genders, and the non-binary community will always have this cis artist as an ally ^.^
The design of this bird takes inspiration from several different species of long-tailed nightjars (ex. long-trained, lyre-tailed and scissor-tailed nightjars). Real nightjars are of course relatively drab and cryptic in appearance, but this fantasy one is here to stand out with their bold purple and yellow stripes 💫
Two Polaroid sized portraits I did for my mom's birthday of her two favorite singers, Freddie Mercury and Shania Twain...plus my hand for scale lol. These paintings are each 3.1 x 3.1 inches, watercolor and gouache (and a teeny bit of colored pencil) on cold press watercolor paper.
Little practice watercolor I did between commissions of my oc Roja the Dromaeosaurus. It's been so long since I painted or even drew ocs; I miss it :/
A more landscape-ish commission this time, of a dog named Tuukko and his owner Justine. I wanted to include a photo of this painting as well, since my scanner did not like that shade of blue in the sky (and ironically my scanner bit the dust not long after I finished this painting!). Acrylic on canvas, 8x10 inches.
Here's a commission of a cute tabby named Buster, hanging out in his favorite spot beneath the tall grass. I think this might be the most complex background I've done so far in watercolor; definitely a challenge but I learned a lot from it...and of course I just love painting plants, even when they're a challenge! Watercolor and a little bit of gouache on hot press paper, 8 x 10 inches.
Another pet portrait commission, this time of a pretty pup named Jenna! It was a fun challenge working with both the snowy and wet fur textures. Watercolor on hot press paper, 11 x 14 inches.
I love painting birds and I love painting plants, so I decided to combine the two in this illustration of a male Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) with an umbrella thorn acacia tree (Vachellia tortilis). The Somali ostrich is one of two living ostrich species, which both make up the family Struthionidae. Part of its diet includes the pods and leaves of the umbrella thorn tree, hence its inclusion in this painting.
I had a blast working on this, and I really hope I can paint more birds (or at least more ratites/palaeognaths) in this style. This painting is watercolor on hot press paper, 8x10 inches.
It is once again time for me to post the backlog of art I've spent an entire year sitting on instead of sharing. This first piece from 2024 was a little wedding gift for my brother and his wife. He's a doctor and she's studying to become a nurse, so I represented them as a doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) and a nursehound shark (Scyliorhinus stellaris), respectively. Watercolor on hot press paper, 6 x 6 inches.
I hope everyone has had a lovely Pride Month! It's been ten years since my pride dinosaurs project, so I decided it was high time to create some new pride art, this time with living dinosaurs (aka modern birds). These fanciful avians and their identities are based around alliteration, not any resemblance between the actual birds' colors and the pride flags. I just think pride flags are pretty and wanted to combine them with my favorite animals ^.^
I hope to paint more of these in the future, but for now here are the five I completed during this year's Pride Month - I wanted to get the four main letters of LGBT plus some asexual pride for myself :)
Here's another recent pet portrait - this lovely lady is an English chocolate lab named (you guessed it!) Daisy. I absolutely loved painting those flowers, and I hope I get the opportunity to paint more plants soon!
Watercolor and gouache on hot press paper, 5 x 6 inches.
Hello, it's been a while (again!). Here are some tiny kitty paintings I gave out as Christmas gifts. Both are 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, and are watercolor with white gouache for the whiskers. The tabby is named Kiwi, and the tuxedo is her brother Scooby.
Happy Halloween! Here are two quick drawings I did for two very good friends. First one combines one friend's favorite dinosaur (Spinosaurus) with one of her favorite classic movie monsters (The Invisible Man). The second one is a Smilodon cosplaying as Karlach (aka best girl) from Baldur's Gate 3 - this particular friend is a cat-lover, and we've been enjoying playing the game together (or more accurately, I've been enjoying watching her play, since I'm absolutely terrible at video games lol). Both of these drawings are ink and colored pencil on Bristol paper.
Sorry for the long absence on here...been busy with Life Stuff :P Here's a little ink/colored pencil drawing I did recently for a friend's birthday - her cat Chanel (the same Siamese mix I painted here) as a mermaid, playing with her fellow sea creatures. 4 x 7 inches on Bristol paper.
(I have to admit, I wasn't really planning on doing anything for Inktober but when the opportunity to do inking came up I just couldn't resist lol)
Another round of watercolor bird studies, in preparation for a larger painting. These are all Arctic birds that can be found at/near the North Pole...so you can probably guess the theme of the bigger illustration I'm prepping for ;) Fingers crossed that it will be finished in time for the winter holidays!
Quick little doodle I did for my dad for Father’s Day. Our dog Smoky is a little thief who loves any human food he can get his paws on, but his absolute favorite is bread. Loaves, rolls, buns, muffins, bagels and more have fallen victim to his thievery and insatiable appetite. So naturally I had to draw him as the King of Bread with his hoard. Colored pencil and ink on Bristol paper, 6x8 inches.
(He may be a thief and a scoundrel but he’s still my baby lol)