Art Blog

I’ve scanned and touched up a few of my screenprints I made last year! These were a whole lot of fun to make; I really liked layering different ink transparencies and gradients to make different color effects. These are all hand-pulled and about 5 or 6 layers of ink.

New poster!

This piece is a sincere homage to some of my favorite camouflage in the animal kingdom. Many people know of walking leaves and leafy sea dragons, but most nature mimics are relatively unknown, even to science! It often takes scientists a long time to discover them simply because they are so successful at blending in; several species featured in this piece were only discovered in the past few years. I think this sort of elaborate and near-perfect camouflage is fascinating and beautiful, so I inked and painted nine of my favorites to shed some light on a few amazing animals that might otherwise be overlooked.

This was drawn, painted, and is best appreciated at 18″ x 24″. It is available in archival quality through INPRNT at that size and smaller formats as well! They are having a free shipping event, so now is a good time to grab one!

Hey y’all! Redbubble’s having a 25% off sale today so it seems like a good time to remind everyone that I have designs and patterns up on a Redbubble shop! If you’ve ever wanted my art on anything from a phone case to a duvet cover, now’s your chance! Get a journal for your friend and a nice throw pillow for your mom. Most of my patterns come on a variety of items, so check it out and see if there’s anything you like.

Hey guys! Over the last semester I made some enamel pin designs as part of my thesis, and now that it’s done I’m excited to be able to share them with you!

There are two designs. One is a twist on glass frogs, which are a real thing! Planet Earth II has a bit about them. My version also incorporates paned terrariums into the design. The other design is a bunny with the frills and spots of a red spotted mushroom.

They are for sale for $10 each plus shipping.

The glass frog is available here and the mushroom bun is available here.

Check out the rest of my etsy too!

I’m not sure how well tumblr’s going to format this, as it’s a pretty wide image, but!

You might have seen this on twitter actually, if you’ve been following the Rogue/Alt National Park accounts. One of the most popular ones retweeted this, which I had posted to my account there after feeling compelled to draw something about the reckless laws being passed by our Cheeto in Chief which would endanger the integrity and inhabitants of our National Parks.

So I’m currently abroad in Japan for the semester (japanadventures tag on my main blog, if you are interested), and how that works is that we all take language classes for a few months, and then once we know enough Japanese to not die so much, art classes start. That happens around April. Fortunately, everything here is beautiful and I still get to draw all the time, so I’m quite happy.

Last Friday @gavi-gavi and I went to a nearby temple to look around and maybe do some sketching we met this surprisingly outgoing but very nice Japanese lady who had lived in L.A. for a bit and who then invited us over for tea. So we followed her 5 minutes to her apartment and she gave us tea and sweets and we talked for about and hour and a half and also? her elderly parents were apparently coming to visit and showed up early from Okinawa and were like “why are there gaijin in your house” but they were also very nice, haha. She had two very cute kids who she showed us pictures of and then invited us to their graduation in March!

Unfortunately, while we still have the slip of paper with her address on it, we lost the one with the address of the school. We had told her we were going to Nara on Sunday, and so when we went, Gigi and I each brought a blank postcard to paint the famous deer there. This is mine. We’re planning to send them both to her and ask for the address again, hoping that the painted postcards might make up for our carelessness.