Illustration Friday: CAMOUFLAGE

Watercolor on paper.
One of my all time favorite creatures in disguise:
"The leafy Sea Dragon"

Have a great weekend!

We're movin'

This is what my studio looks like today...We sold our house!
With all of the furniture designed by my husband Manolo included.
...we'll start building a new house (and designing new furniture)
next month in the lot next to our house.

We rented a tiny log cabin deep in the woods a few blocks away from here
where we'll be living for the next six months, till our new house is built...
I will document the whole process here on the blog and on my Flickr.
I think it will be fun :o)

We'll be moving in next week.

The studio is coming along real nice,
it still needs a lot of organizing.

I might be missing in action for a couple of weeks
until we have our internet connection up and running.

Thank you for visiting :o)
I'll be back sooner than later with more art to share.

Bye bye birdies

Last one in the birdie-a-day week series.
It was fun!

Illustration Friday: REJECTION

Watercolor on paper.
Click on the image to see it BIGGER.

Robin

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink• on paper

Bird call

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink•
on paper.

Blackbird

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink• on paper.

Je suis belle

Happy Monday friends!
Beautiful Juliette was made with Black India Ink
from Windsor & Newton on paper.

And on a different note:

My friend Amy from the Flickr Embroidery Group
interviewed me for the wonderful Feeling Stitchy Blog.
If you want to read the interview click here.

For you...

This flower is for you.
For all of you who visit this blog regularly
& for those visiting for the first time.
Thank you.

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink• on paper.

Songbird

Ink on paper.
I will give the old watercolors a rest this week
to draw a series of black ink birds.
Yep, a birdie-a-day week :o)

Illustration Friday: SUIT

Mr. & Mrs. Guido Cardinale
were done in watercolor on paper for this week's
Illustration Friday topic.
Thanks for visiting!

Intertwined

Collage, watercolor & ink on paper.

Agapanthus

Agapanthus flower
against a weathered wall
of an hacienda from the 1500s..
Taken today, a few blocks aways from our home.
The beauty of that pink old layered wall
just takes my breath away
every time I walk past it.

Down under...

This is a little experiment.
I'm drawing with a soft No.2 pencil (I usually work with a very hard 6H pencil),
coloring all the different elements with watercolor
and giving the whole drawing a watercolor wash
with the background color (in this case: turquoise mixed with white).
I'm loving that as I apply the background wash it picks up a little of the watercolor
from the different elements and the colors mix up a little.
Did that make any sense?

Noche

Watercolor on paper.

Doodle garden

A little doodle I did this morning just to wish you
a happy monday :)

Ultima amapola

Watercolor on paper.
The last one in the poppy-a-day series :)

Lil' pebble critters

Remember these ?
They were recycled into these lil' guys :)

Tomorrow...the last poppy-a-day post.
Thank you for all the nice comments,
they were so much fun to make.

Poppy vine

Black indian ink on paper.

You can see some fun color variations here.

Illustration Friday: YOUR PARADISE

Yeah baby!
Watercolor & ink on paper.

White poppies

Watercolor & ink on paper.