Flamingos in love !!

Valentine's Day is around the corner so all my love pieces are coming to a head!! Here's the latest !! His heart goes wild when she blushes at him!!


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

The clams are smitten..

.. And falling in love!! More mermaids!! Another pre-photoshop sketch! More of me enjoying the sun in union square. In SF our summers happen in August and Sept and when that happens my brain goes to the ocean and the magical creatures of the deep.. These little clams just can't stop falling hard for this mermaid as she pets them. Cupid's arrows hit the waters a little early. 

Done with red pencil in my sketchbook. Inked over with a fine sharpie. Soon to be transferred to photoshop for color to be added. 

Curiousity..

first print in a series I'm doing about the adventures that come out of having three cats. They follow you everywhere and are curious about everything. So much for private ME time.. I guess life wouldn't be as fun without them though.

Done in Photoshop on Batmankoff.. The setup was from my time in Vancouver but due to my busy sched as a VFX artist.. painting takes a backseat at times.

-A

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.