Blue Otter

let it be known that I am a big fan of body art. I have only two tattoos myself, a generic pawprint on m right ankle I wish I could take off as the good old "first tattoo mistake" soon as I reached 18- and then there is my "Norse Kitsune" when I was heavily obsessed with Norse Designs and Deities, as well as my Japanese. So I figured a the time to merge the two. The latter of the two designs was inked by a very talented friend of mine Stacy Sharp of Sharp Tattoos In a "Ink for Art" trade we agreed to do Stacey was looking for an otter design. The Idea took some time to "hammer out" so to speak- as I had a finished design in my sketchpad back before many of my possessions got stolen back in summer so it all had to be reworked. Sometime later this was born. I wanted it to mimic in style an earlier personal design I did of a tribal orca for myself.

Ganesh Flow

Many updates in one day- I'm clearing the backlog to you have something to look at here and this blog doesn't collect "e-dust". This started as a sketch when I was waiting for my Yoga class to start, I arrived unusually early that day and because it was cold rather then walk and poke about NoHo I sat down and looked onto the urban garage walls of the studio. A fickle muse is funny like that at times, She pops her head out of seemingly nowhere, and inspires. Rather then focus so much on anatomy, I threw the artistic rules outside the window and went with the flow of the piece. This was originally supposed to be a sketch of Shiva truth be told! The prayer around the outside ring reads ""Lord Ganesha has a curved trunk with a powerful body. He has the brilliance of a million suns. May the Lord, remove all the problems from the actions I aim to achieve"

Freelance Work has been keeping me busy, which is good! I apologize to my viewers and followers here for lack of updates. My resolution (If I may so post here) is to create more "folio" worthy art. Dig deeper, try to find my niche in things. With that said I have a few pictures to share. The first is a tattoo design for a good friend of mine whom has a strong affinity to kestrels and humpback whales. Inspired by the Japanese crests to a degree. I find it difficult to gives images names sometimes, so I just decided to nickname this one "Sea and Sky" I well realize that birds wings don't bend that way- artistic liberties taken of course :)

Blow Me!

Get your minds out of the foul mouthed gutters there folks! ;) This design Idea came about out of nowhere to be honest, no direct muse I can particularly credit. I've always drawn cute or "chibi" things (before all the cool kids were doing it too!) :P but abandoned that style for artistic growth reasons. (I caught A LOT of flack for it back in high school and in college) I know its all the rage nowadays and everyone is doing it, so it may be overkill, but I choose to think of it as fun. Sadly this design didn't make it on threadless. So here it is for all of you to enjoy here!

Beach Bum Savasana!

I think I had too much fun making this one, combining two of my favorite elements, yoga and the beach! the inspiration from this comes from our wind-down after an hour of "asana kicking yoga" at the best studio out there (I'm biased! ;) The Fierce Club After the workout we lay down on our mats in a pose called "savasana" and unwind. Often at times I'm so cranked up and covered in sweat from a great workout I imagine that I'm laying on the beach (Of course! I'm from Long Island!) and so hence this image was born. I plan on doing a male version as well wish a similar limited (5 tone) color pallet.

Long time no Write!

You all have my sincerest apologies for such as well. The lack of updates have been within good reason if you'll allow me for one brief moment to break the "art only" and professionalism atmosphere of this blog. Rather then bring everyone down with disappointing news I'll post the good first!

Two months ago at June's end I moved from the historic little town of St. James on the north shore to what I call nothing short of God's country. I'm now happily situated on the North Fork of the Island in the tiny hamlet of Baiting Hollow. Also known as wine country! We have an overlook of the Long Island Sound from my balcony, and we are surrounded by woods! (and "Mc Mansions!" however luckily our house is not. There is a beautiful Koi pond that is in the backyard which I spent the last month fixing up. So far out here I have seen deer, turkeys and their babies, osprey, turtles, and I am woken up each morning by a screeching red tailed hawk that nests nearby. Nature has been a huge inspiring factor in my life and now I can happily say I am surrounded by it all!

Sadly now come the bad news (but with more good news at the end so bear with me!) The final week of June I had the contents of my backback robbed from me. That's right. My livelihood and all the technological tools that make me a Graphic Designer were in that bag, My laptop (my working machine) my tablet, my ipod (because music fuels the art!) wallet, phone, everything.. even jewelry I had on that I had took off! I was upset and speechless that someone would do such a thing, or that anyone in this world can steal something. *shakes her head* So I had a very much unwanted hiatus from the internet and communications.

Now, the good news is now mid/late July I own a new laptop, found some older disks with some (not all) backup, but some and I am working on rebuilding it all. Its taking time as I need to find my Fonts, and there are some files that cannot be replaced. However as an artist and a person I wont let that get my down! So long as I have air in my lungs, a pad, pen and the promise of a brand new day I continue to create! for I -AM- an Artist.

My apologies to those that follow my art or this blog for a lack of contact and updates. I'm currently adding new features, and there will be much more art and adventures to come!

"Voice of the Wind"

Apologies for the lack of updates, lives thrown a little loop at me here and there, but I always manage to jump though it. This project has took some time simply because of the design elements having to be added together piece by piece, then getting approval to move onto the next. One of my very talented and longtime friends whom is a both a artisan and a composer whom goes by the online and alias of "WolfHeart" creates from scratch Native American flutes of all sorts carved of wood. Not only does He create these beautiful woodwinds, he also carves and decorates them adorning them with ornamental sculpture and bead work. His talents don't stop there; Wolfheart is a talented composer and arranger of his own music!
He as well as I have been working side by side in creating his debut album entitled "Voice of the Wind" which will feature his compositions. The track titles and times are merely placeholders until the actual compositions have been given names and recorded. I am very pleased to have been asked to work on this design for him.

Izze Drink Ad

Wow its amazing how thirsty this makes one doing something like this! *laughs* on a Trip to the much awesome Whole Foods market I picked up some meals for the week and treated myself to something I haven't had in sometime since I was working for East West in the summer, an Izze drink. I have to say I fell in love with the wide variety of flavours they had, but my all time number one is the Pomegranate. In need of some more work for my portfolio I created this mock Ad. All I know is personally its message of mouth watering and thirst quenching juicy goodness did the trick as I was working on this late night and reached for one when I finished at around 3:30am!

I'd like to add on a small legal disclaimer if I may;
IZZE Beverage Company and its respective logo/brand are copyright onto themselves and are not affiliated with this design for portfolio use and non profitable purposes only.

Bubo

During my free time I volunteer here at a local wildlife rehab center called SweetBriar in Smithtown. We have all sorts of raptors there, but ones that I love and fear at once are the Great Horned Owls. They always looks like their giving you the "evil eye" despite their beautiful and powerful nature. The idea came to me as sometimes I like to challenge myself by working with a limited pallet. I also though as I began the initial concepts of this that it would look awesome on a brown/dark brown tshirt. I submitted it to threadless and its pending approval to be voted on.