Day 86

February 22, 2015 in hill, drawing, shelter, ink, otherland, Mongolian ger, adrawingaday

It's been a while since I last posted but I'm back at it. Inspired by the Mongolian Ger shelter today and our innate instinct to create a home.

Day 85

December 29, 2014 in cat, portrait, drawing, adrawingaday, pencil, cat interrogation, watercolor, ink, color pencil

I call this "Cat Interrogated." :)

Day 83

December 07, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, figurative, ink, self portrait, pattern

Trying out a self portrait with patterns for the first time. One element led to another without any preconceived idea. Looking forward to pushing this further.

Day 81

December 05, 2014 in adrawingaday, creature like, drawing, feathers, ink, portrait

Through this drawing I started imagining a human bird hybrid. So you have it.

Day 80

December 04, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, figurative, ink, portrait, watercolor

I decided to exaggerate the eyes, thinking of Modigliani and Frida Kahlo's technique.

Day 79

December 03, 2014 in adrawingaday, bubbles, color pencil, creature like, drawing, ink, pattern, watercolor

I started off by thinking of an MTA illustration by artist Marcos Chin. I've seen it on the train a bunch of times and I really enjoy it. You can check it out here. His use of lines to define all of the characters' contours is lovely and I wanted to play with that idea. But then I started listening to Radiolab and a story on the fight to conserve a bird called the Kirtland’s warbler and at some point I evidently thought of "The Red Balloon." There's also some 80's rock hairdo going on here. I went with it all.

Day 78

December 02, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, ink, feet, splash

I've been reading Haruki Murakami's new book, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and this style of drawing came to mind. The feet maybe came to be because I've been running a lot- not sure. This was a fun drawing to get things going again.

Day 76

November 14, 2014 in ayotzinapa, adrawingaday, drawing, ink, pattern, pencil, protest

It's been moving to see more and more people both in Mexico and Mexicans in other parts of the world protest what's been going on in Mexico for the past many years. I've been learning more and more about Ayotzinapa and feel sad and ashamed at the country's actions. All of this has also put into perspective my own family's reasons for moving to the states and what life could have been like for my sister and I should we have stayed. My hope is that we will finally come through with a more transparent government.

Day 75

November 13, 2014 in abstract, adrawingaday, color pencil, creature like, drawing, ink, pattern, wanderer

Revisiting a wanderer.

Day 74

November 12, 2014 in adrawingaday, abstract, color pencil, drawing, gouache, ink

Inspired by land formations and molten lava, an abstraction came to be.

Day 73

November 11, 2014 in adrawingaday, color pencil, drawing, ink, pencil, bones

From thinking of the new Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, I remembered visiting the Bone Church in Kutná Hora when I was in college. I was happy to find some pictures I took from that visit. It's amazing to see the ornate nature we create with ideas of death.

Day 72

November 10, 2014 in adrawingaday, color pencil, drawing, figurative, ink, pencil, spine, dream

This is a frame from a dream I had. Although strange imagery, when decoding dreams it all makes sense.

Day 71

November 09, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, emotion from afar, figurative, ink, sign language, portrait

I'm still thinking of the Ebola victims, their families and the physical nurturing that they have been deprived of now. Read an interesting article on NPR about this very same topic. I wonder how others, or what others would do if they couldn't hold their loved ones.

Day 69

November 07, 2014 in adrawingaday, bird, color pencil, drawing, feathers, ink

A good friend brought me back a book on the native birds of California. So much inspiration in there!

Day 68

November 06, 2014 in adrawingaday, color pencil, drawing, ink, skeleton, skull

Inspired by the recent "Dia de los Muertos" and the color that comes along with it.

Day 67

November 05, 2014 in abstract, adrawingaday, color pencil, creature like, drawing, gouache, ink

A few things impeded me from keeping up with the drawings for a while. However, instead of seizing completely I've decided to extend the date and simply finish 365 drawings. So all in all I'm back on track as it were. This is an abstract piece I played with using gouache and ink.

Day 65

October 23, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, emotion from afar, figurative, gouache, ink, portrait, ebola

It's hard to get away from all of the images of Ebola patients. It's especially sad when you see the kids that have been hit by the disease. This is a composite drawing of a couple of those images.

Day 64

October 22, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, emotion from afar, ink, figurative, sign language, portrait

A continuation on emotions from afar.

Day 63

October 21, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, gouache, ink, hand, symbol

I got an urge to draw a set of 'hands' that may have sprouted from something more like a ginger root.

Day 62

October 20, 2014 in adrawingaday, drawing, figurative, ink, text

Sketching out an idea to mix text and image while balancing the visibility. This is a test. :)