True buggy bugs and other art projects

A sketch.

Lately I've been buuusy! School's done, and work is piling up. I'm buckling down for the winter but in spare moments working on:

- enamel earrings (I have a kiln, hallelujah!)

- leatherwork (tooling buttery smooth leather is a dream)

- a little bit of digital illustration for biology outreach programs (e.g. a "bad bug" exhibit for Halloween)

and

- large ceramic bowls for Empty Bowls, a charity event for fighting hunger.

I'm turning 100 pounds of porcelain into giant blue-and-white illustrated bowls.

Illustrations will likely involve monsters, robots, and bugs.

Look for progress pictures soon. 

:)

Quail

If you're lucky out here, you can spot these whizzing across the road in single file, or hear them cawing to each other across the mountains. 

Also, I am a fan of birds with bouncy hats like these.

Cute Insects

Starting to sketch out native Arizonan flora and fauna to connect with my roots here.

Return for Art and Science

It's been a long time.. but I'm excited to be back!

The past 9 months have been filled with hard work in graduate school, and in 2 weeks I'll be receiving a business master's degree!! So excited to graduate, and put all that knowledge to good use.

Bonus illustration: sketched this based on a vintage photograph of a geisha, with extra botanical details added in for good measure.

More, mostly digital illustrations to come!