Lifestyles

To make a gift for each of my students in Lifestlyes, and by "my" students I mean Dan Krall's students that I'm TI-ing (Teacher Instructor-ing), I compiled a calendar for them using their illustrations I assigned 2 weeks ago.

This is what I drew for them. :)

Acorn necklaces galore!

Art Marketing!

I've been swamped with teaching, but I'm finally done!
Yesterday was my last day teaching the Kindergarteners with my partner Holly Cloer.
If you don't know her, you should. She's an amazing partner, friend, teacher, and artist.

Anywho, these are the necklaces I've been making!

Oh, and ear rings too!

To avoid acorns rotting, I coated them with some watered down Crystal Lacquer. (You can see the bottle on the bottom picture)
They're super easy to work with, and make such beautiful results!

If you're interested, the product can be purchased here: http://www.sakuracraft.com/

The red seeds? And the tear drop seed that doesn't look like an acorn? Well... the red seed is from a church wood tree called Sibipiruna, mostly found in Brazil. The other seeds are palm tree seeds! Or AKA, baby coconuts!
I found both seeds during my trip in São Tomé and Principe. Due to my limitation with the materials, they are $20/necklace, but I think that's reasonable. I haven't even made one for myself yet.

2 more days... I'll be making labels today. More pictures will be posted soon!

Art Market!

Hello, hello! It's been a while.
I've been teaching Kindergarteners and they, are, ADORABLE.
They call me Miss Mika. That's right.







Few exciting news regarding art:

1) So lately I've been working on projects for Art Market, so stay tuned.
I'm making acorn necklaces!

2) I just made an Etsy account! I'll let you know once I document my necklaces. :) ;)

3) I baked apple pie for the first time with my roommate Julianna Brion!

4) I made pumpkin butterrrr

Map - Barcelona!!! TEN PACES

Woohoo! Ten Paces this week...MAPS!
Julia Kostreva did the original sketch and I did the final.
To be honest, I don't think I did justice to the sweet city of Barcelona.
Sooo critiques are welcome, but please be gentle, colors kinda exploded on me. Meh.

Just for fun, this is the sketch I did for Map...TO DEATH! Muahaha!

 

And I can't be any more happier with the result of what Natalie Andrewson did.

Isn't she amazing?!

Travelogue: Baltimore

Helloooooo Baltimore!

This is my final piece to complete my Travelogue Fashion series. Hope you liked them!
My works will be up in the Fox building at MICA for another week, so check them out and draw/write something in my sketchbook if you'd like!

Travelogue: São Tomé!

My second fashion illustration:São Tomé

Tomorrow I'll post my final series: Baltimore!
People seem to like that one the most. We'll see how you feel.

Let me know if you have any comments/questions about these illustrations!

Travelogue: Los Angeles

My summer thesis show went up few days ago, and I have NO idea why I didn't post these up!

I completed my summer thesis to draw fashion illustrations for Los Angeles, São Tomé, and Baltimore! I redrew pretty much all of them several times.

Instead of displaying them all at once, I'll post them one at a time.

So come back to check out the others, but for now, here's LA!!!!