A malaria parasite with embellishment. It's strange to see the beauty in something that causes such pain.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 56 - 10.14.14
Day 56
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gouache
A Drawing A Day, Day 47 - 10.5.14
Day 47
in adrawingaday, creature like, drawing, sea life, splash, watercolor, gouache, fish
A play on fish.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 45 - 10.3.14
Day 45
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Ely flying in his sleep.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 42 - 9.30.14
Day 42
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It's a tropical bird kind of day. :)
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 33 - 9.21.14
Day 33
in adrawingaday, drawing, gouache, sea life, watercolor, glass squid, squid
While browsing deep sea creatures, I came across the glass squid. It's a beautiful creature that is mostly transparent with a few spots of color used as camouflage. Some of them strike me as human skulls that have morphed into sea creatures. So amazing to see how life is so varied.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 24 - 9.12.14
Day 24
This headline definitely got my attention today- "A Dozen Puffins Will Get You 800 Mackerel: Inside The Weird Economy Of Zoos." Or maybe the puffins will get those 800 mackerel...
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 19 - 9.7.14
Day 19
in adrawingaday, drawing, gouache, ink, portrait, watercolor, porcupine, bubbles
A lazy porcupine Sunday ensued.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 18 - 9.6.14
Day 18
in abstract, adrawingaday, creature like, drawing, figurative, gouache, heart, ink, sea life, watercolor, walrus
Continuing from yesterdays thought of, "if hearts had teeth," came a walrus-like creature. Naturally. :) I swear I was aiming to create a heart with teeth, but one thing led to another.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 17 - 9.5.14
Day 17
in abstract, adrawingaday, creature like, drawing, gouache, heart, ink, splash
Today I felt a need to loosen up and splash some watered down gouache on a page. Some days just call for that. While drawing this I thought, "if hearts had teeth." A thought for later.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 16 - 9.4.14
Day 16
in adrawingaday, drawing, figurative, gouache, ink, sea life, watercolor, whale, orca
A juvenile whale washed ashore. It's a mysterious scene that causes wonder and sadness.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 13 - 9.1.14
Day 13
in adrawingaday, drawing, gouache, watercolor, heart, brain
A feeling.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 8 - 8.27.14
Day 8
It's been a week since I started this project and I'm so happy about that. Now, 51 weeks to go. Can't wait to see how this develops. What I most enjoy about this is that I'm placed in a position to take things day by day. As such, for today here's a quick and loose color sketch of a jellyfish.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 6 - 8.25.14
Day 6
Looking forward to working on a detailed drawing of a whale skeleton. Here's a quick sketch to kick things off.
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A Drawing A Day, Day 2 - 8.21.2014
Day 2
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Today was a day to push and pull and have fun with each mark. I had my beautiful niece as inspiration so I channeled her sassy self.
Read MoreA Drawing A Day, Day 1 - 8.20.14
Day 1
in adrawingaday, gouache, abstract, creature like, ink, drawing
Here's the first drawing to kick off this one year project. I'm super excited to do this and can't wait to see what happens. For this first drawing I took on my favorite media- india ink and gouache! While abstract, I always find a figurative element to these drawings as well.
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