Inland Painters at Buccaneer Beach, Oceanside 2021

Drawing Flamingos at the San Diego Zoo

Drawing Tortoises at The San Diego Zoo 2021

San Diego Watercolor Society Plein Air Painters at Liberty Station - 2021

San Diego Urban Sketchers at Westfield UTC in La Jolla, CA - 2021

Vw series

 Index card a day. # 13

Index card a the day #8

 Following the typography theme. I used practice calligraphy paper, gelli print, collage and my hand carved stamps.

Hard Cover Flutter Book

 The book of the month at Ali Manning's Handmade Book Club is The Hard Cover Flutter Book. I made mine with multimedia paper so I csn use it for a sketch book.

ICAD#7 List

 Index card a day. I am following the theme this week which is text, grafitti, typography and/or lists. My list is: Things I heard today that I liked.

Sketching at Blue Sky Ecological Preserve, Poway, CA 2021

Lake Wohlford with Inland Painters

 A 2 minute video: https://youtu.be/D6wvWfPzzxo

Sea World Penguin Encounter

 My icad2021 #4 was created at Sea World Encounter. They have little partitions in the viewing area so I had my own little space.

A gelli printing day

 These are my #gelliprints from this month's lesson with @balzerdesigns #ayearofgelatinprinting focusing on #paper using #crumpledpaper #tornpaper #foldedpaper and #cutpaper #whatjulietaught #gelliprinting #gelliprintpaper @gelliarts #acrylics #bookartspaper

ICAD#2 Lake Wohlford

This is a 4x6 index card gessoed and oil painted at Lake Wohlford in Escondido. It's part of the Index Card A Day Challenge.

 

ICAD21 Map Crunch Watercolor

This year I am participating in “Index Card a Day 2021”. I chose 4x6 Cards and my first one is a watercolor of Ecuador using Map Crunch as my reference. 

I am excited about this project and hope I can do it until the end, which is July 31st. 61 Days!

Inland Painters at Lake Wohlford, 2021

A 2 minute video taken at Lake Wohlford, Escondido while plein air painting with the Inland Painters.

Gift/ Trinket Box with Sunshine

One of my latest creations using paper clay is available on Etsy.

This box is a hand-painted cardboard box.
Embellished with a handmade paper clay sun painted gold with acrylic paint.
Dots and lines are drawn with acrylic markers.
Size: 3.5 inches high
3.5 inches wide

Life Drawing with 2bornot2bcollective

 I have been digging into materials I purchased years ago and hardly ever use anymore. Next in line were the conte pencils. I believe they were purchased for a life drawing class so I decided to use them for the virtual life session with 2bornot2bcollective on Zoom. These sketches were created in a small handmade sketchbook.

Crow Raven 3 inch Round Sticker

 If you are interested in stickers you may want to check out Sticker Mule. I like to take advantage of their random sales. I usually order when I come across a 50 for $9. special. Subscribe to their email or follow them on Instagram to get notified. 

This particular sticker is a 3 inch round vinyl sticker of a crow. It is was made from one of my hand-carved stamps. I have it listed on my Etsy store. 

Small Trinket Box with Paer Clay Heart Milagro Embellishment

I have been making boxes and books to use with my paper clay projects. I will be listing them this week. This is my first listing for a small Trinket box embellished with a paper clay heart. Available on Etsy.

This trinket box is a cardboard box painted with black paint.
The heart was handmade with paper clay by San Diego Artist, Lydia Velarde. It was painted with acrylic paint and sealed with matt medium.
The lines and circles on the box were drawn with acrylic markers.
The hinge on the back of the box is made of paper.

The box is 3.25 inches long and 2.25 inches wide
It is .5 inches deep and the bottom is lined with red felt.