resist

all day, every day.

sloth with a party hat

a commission.

2017 calendar: Activists!

Here is Sonny trying to sell some calendars.

watercolor illustrations

california hills.

wedding invites. 😍

the rock

a commission.

empty rooms

these are some sample paintings i have done for my Painting II class. The assignment is to paint a room with no people or animals.

Demos for painting class

I am teaching intro painting and painting II this year, here are some pieces i have done in preparation.

acrylic value landscape

watercolor hard vs. soft

watercolor sky vs. foreground

from the last year part VI.

commissioned illustration.

from the last year part V.

two little paintings i did for no reason.

3x3 inches, acrylic.

from the last year part IV.

Thien Pham and i made these calendars for 2015. What are some presidential themes we havent thought of (we need something for 2016)?

from the last year part III.

Steve (my husband) and i made a children's book.

from the last year part II.

Shirt i designed for my husband. Our daughter loves the ramones, but calls them the marones. Her imaginary friends are deedee, doodoo, and squee squee. She is three.

from the last year part I.

Valentine's day card, 2015. This is another weird thing my kid says.

I did this watercolor as a demo for a high school painting class. Each student picked a favorite book or story and illustrated it using watercolor. This is from 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

i love valentine's day... part two.

Thien and i designed this shirt for valentine's day. I miss writing notes, but especially folding them and receiving intricately folded notes.

i love valentine's day.

When i designed this card we had not had rain in so long, i missed it. By the time i silk screened the cards it was pouring. Here's to hoping we get even more rain this year.

This is the original design, done in indesign.

2014 calendar: presidential pets

For the past three years thien and i do a calendar together. First it was presidents, then first ladies. This year we present you with... first pets!

Our only rule was to use pets that we could find the actual name of. For instance james buchanan had a pair of bald eagles, which we would have loved to draw, but we couldn't find their names.

Persimmon painting

persimmons, gouache, 4x4 inches.

I am also including a small detail of it in the beginning stages.