I'm back!

Hello my friends!

It's been too long:

May - I graduated! I successfully finished my Masters with Arts Education and am well on my way to teaching children.
Speaking of which, I have finished an interview last week with an independent non-tuition Catholic middle school academy and will be interviewing with the president today. Which basically means I am hired...but not officially. The president needs to give me the thumbs up. Wish me luck!

I have done some drawings though.

To start off with, I have been focusing on job-hunting for part-time teaching so please excuse the lack of up-date and art-making.

To build my portfolio, I made a personal project to do illustrations for the Greek mythology Persephone.

This is my in-progress work for one of them:

I'm hooking up my scanner today, so more doodles and whatnot will soon be uploaded. :)

Print Punch!!!

Folks,

I have been student teaching and have not been able to do art AT ALL.
I can't wait to be able to sit down and clean my desk to just draw. Oh do I crave it so much!
My sketchbook however, has been filling up with tons of words and doodles, so maybe I should scan them in.
It's more about the time though...I'll figure something out.

BUT
CHECK THIS OUT

PRINT PUNCH

My works are now available on PRINT PUNCH!!! What is it? Well..

"Print Punch is a Los Angeles based company offering high quality, affordable single run prints from around the world. Print Punch was created by artists, for artists and art lovers alike, with the goal of connecting exceptional artists with sharp collectors, at prices anyone can afford."

Check it out. It's AWESOME and the other artists are crazy awesome too.

here's the site!

http://www.printpunch.com/



Thanks for checking in once in a while for those who have...I'm still alive and surviving.
I'll give you more update on my art life soon though!

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!