Teddy Bear Cholla

Another blooming flower from Joshua Tree (green flowers! very beautiful in a subtle way). Also, forgot to mention it- this is my 202nd post! (passed #200 a few days ago!) Whoo hoo!

Mountain Quail

Finished off my trip to Joshua Tree earlier today with a hike to 49 Palms Oasis and saw tons of Mountain Quail, so my drawing today is of one! They were so amazingly adorable- snapped some great pics of them a well! Enjoy! (ps- guacho boy is the name of the book from which my new sketch book came from)

Peacock, color study

Went back to try and re-work the earlier peacock with color, but didn't like the composition, so tried a different angle and approach- really like the marker/ colored pencil combo. Very happy with this result! I need to get some light colored markers for more background color bases (more than yellow, orange and green, anyway)

Continuing on the theme...

So, in part from Tyree's suggestion I take a look at MF Husain's work based off of my past few posts (especially inspired by this drawing of his), and trying to combine the fun I had with the colors and lines of the primitive drawing with the themes of the Indian maiden drawing, this is what I came up with- I'm really enjoying the results. Thanks Tyree!! Awesome recommendation! : D (Maybe I'll try coloring in that peacock next!)

Illustration Friday: Primitive

This week's Illustration Friday theme made me think of paleolithic cave paintings (especially Pech Merle), so I drew up some primitive cave horses and played around with color. Really enjoyed this week's theme and result! Enjoy!

Indian Maiden, Part II

Took a suggestion to do another pass on yesterday's Indian maiden and do her in color, so here it is! Thanks afsha! : )

Mrs. Lovett

Saw the musical version of Sweeney Todd at the Ahmanson Theatre tonight and was inspired by the insane and darkly twisted Mrs. Lovett- enjoy!!

at the beach

Just a super super quick sketch in photoshop. enjoy!

Illustration Friday: "Leap"

What better to celebrate a leap year than with a jumping frog!

Illustration Friday: "Theory"

Decided to illustrate "string theory" for Illustration Friday, which is more a visual playing with strings than the theory itself, which you can read all about here.

Day 27- color studies

Felt like using the ol' wacom tablet for this one; just trying to do some quick color and environmental sketches.