watching him watching others..

All these beautiful birds in my backyard keep popping up either here or other places in the city. This piece was inspired by a beautiful blue bird I saw.  Then it was furthered by a photo of bleeding heart flowers my boyfriend sent me. I was intending just the blue bird but the bleeding hearts fully bring it together.

I did this in photoshop on Batmankoff. This is the first of a set. 

The Flirt

I'd like to introduce my latest piece. I love this one. Its like you and I have snuck in through the seaweed from behind and caught him in the act. Like these mermaids I cant help but giggle at that thought a little. They blush lightly as he flirts with them all at the same time, blissfully too lost in their enchantments to turn and notice us. 

Sketched originally on a notepad and taken into Batmankoff to be painted after work. It took a little longer than I thought it would with Batmankoff but I suppose its because of the multiple characters and my desire to keep up with all the details. 

-A 

Making New Friends

Mermaid 2

This is the second in my mermaid series. She's a bit more shy than the rest. Even the fish have to approach her slowly to get her to come out from behind her fins. When I got them all together and after I was done with my first painting I figured I should paint her next. She was sketched at work on a small pad and taken to Batmankoff.

Laughing Under the Sea

Mermaid 1

I'd like you to meet the first mermaid of my series of five. She was actually the last design of the five I drew. I like her so much because she laughs at life and enjoys her time with her fishy friends. I tested different colors but because I love purple so much I settled on it for her hair. This little mermaid was my first painting of this year. Drawn on scratch paper while at work and painted on Batmankoff 

I like her because regardless of the fact that I was sick with strep throat she gave me something to do to push through my recovery. I'm not a home body at all so painting her eased the difficulty of being stuck at home fighting sickness. I was happy to go back to work but also happy I had time to paint her.  Over the next week or so I will be posting the other four mermaids with other art.

Alternate Love Birds

This alternate was created while searching through some old black and white photos I found. I looked at my art work and thought hmmm... I wonder. Sometimes its as simple as that.

Love Birds

My artistic style changes from time to time as you can see. Its simply because i'm an artist of course. I just cant paint one way and one way only. Here with a little change I present: My Lovebirds.

The idea for them came while spending time with my boyfriend Nick. He was sharing the series "Planet Earth" with me. An amazing series where a few more of my ideas spawned. While we were watching one of the discs on birds of all kinds I pulled out my sketchbook and started drawing. I realized I was drawing on pink paper and soon after a few different sketches I finally settled on this one to take to Batmankoff (my cintiq). I spent an entire day just working on these cute little lovers. 

Face Your Fears

I'd like to think that elephants aren't as really terrified of mice as we're taught when we're kids. Im sure the peanut offering did help this little guy cope with the mouse caught in his trunk. This is continual art from that ride from Los Angeles to San Francisco. How better to kill time than to sketch your discussions? 

Blue Bat Beginnings

The story begins with Chris Ayers. Who can be found at www.chrisayersdesign.com. I met him at convention I went to and we had the chance to talk. He was so inspiring and motivating telling me how he overcame cancer through his art. At the time I was closing the chapter of my life where I was recovering from a huge college injury. Talking to him inspired me to get back into drawing. I used to love to draw and and I did go to art school of course. I hadn't really done a full drawn piece of art since my injury and speaking to him threw me right back into my sketch books.

Heres my blue little bat. He was drawn the winter I met Chris. Shortly after we met. I was in San Francisco and the new year had just started and with it my desire to do digital art pieces. I have a very 'cute' style as described by a friend so here are my pieces of work from when I started painting on my cintiq again to now where I paint on my cintiq and Ipad.

Also a thank you to all my friends who love my art and have nudged me to blogging.

AG <(^.^)>