Orange County Music Academy Rock Show 2012

The rock show is here again!  I just love being asked back to do artwork for people- means they liked what they received!  Here's my sketch for this year's design and the final product.  I went with the organic look with a mix of funky and japanese pop elements.  It was fun and made for an interesting piece.

One Sunny Day....

Been noodling and came up with this:

Sometimes the art classes wont have enough students so I'll stick around and paint for a while. It's always lead to interesting products, and this one in particular, will go on the wall. It's fun, I think!

In more news, I'm finally getting my act together and working on "The Three Things". Here's an illustration idea for one of the spreads. I'm narrowing down my style and mediums for the artwork. I like this illustration so much but I had a couple ideas for some changes and awesome additions so I'll need to do it over.

The best thing you can do for yourself is do what you love. It's a struggle of mine every day but I feel like I'm finally getting through and making it happen! Yeee!

Acrylic, pencil, and charcoal on hot press paper.

Mural!

The mural is finished. Just a fun little ditty I completed for the preschool, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time out in the sunshine painting. Plus, kids make you feel like a rockstar when they say, "Miss Annie I like your paintings, they're awesome!" or "Miss Annie, I love you!". They're the best.

When you're busy- you disappear!

That's what I've done- disappeared! But in the BEST way possible! I'm enjoying where my art is taking me.

First: A great experience. At the "Art Crawl" in Anaheim, I met a lovely lady who ended up getting one of my paintings as a birthday gift from her fab boyfriend who bought it, and also had me teach an art-lesson/birthday party. It was so much fun, and I'm interested in doing something like this in the future with other people. It made for a creative and relaxed night, and the art pieces turned out great! I realize my style is quite different and very fun- anyone's artistic touch turns out nicely.

Their lovely art works:

One of my pieces/a.k.a. the birthday gift:

And now, a little mural I'm painting at the Preschool! It's nice to sit outside in the warm sunshine and just paint. I don't listen to music, I listen to the birds and the elementary schoolers in the distance. I love listening to kids- they're loud and fun and happy.

All of the illustrations in this mural are of each class's "mascot" or class name. The Precious Pandas, the Smiling Sunflowers, The Carebears....

I'll post more pictures when it's finished. Until then happy art making and love to all!

My Sister Loves Fairies

So.... my sister loves fairies....

She also loves theatre and magic, and all things of old lore. She gave me this "quote" from the play Gypsy and a few key words, and this is what I came up with. I love you, Jenny!

The BogWheezum...

Eeeek! It's a BogWheezum! Watch out, kids! This is a little illustration for a book I'll be working on in a couple months. It's a sweet story about assumptions on one's character based on appearance- which can be misleading.

Wonderful Wheezums- keep an eye out!

Sneak Peak into a new project!