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Quick doodle robot on black paper sketch book. Using Gelly Pen by Sakura. Something new and i like it.

Our old barn in gouache. Painted on bad paper with my kid stealing my brushes and a cat walking all over me.

Sketches during meetings

Part of a personal side project for an illustrated calendar of Literal Butterflies. Starting with the Marbled White :3

Having way too much fun with textures and halftones in Procreate.

Don’t get caught here unawares… I don’t suggest you take the stairs. The treasure that this castle keeps, deep beneath the water sleeps. But if you’re patient with the tides, there’s another path it hides. Quickly now! Find the door! and hurry back onto the shore. For the moon, she will not wait to turn the tide and flood the gate. Don’t get caught here unawares… I don’t suggest you take the stairs.

Rudzik

I always admired those hand-painted signs outside the barbershops, so I made my own. Actually, you look like you need a fresh new hairstyle yourself. I can hook you up

This is part of a series of postcards that I have been creating to mail to my mom everyday. She is in assisted living about 3 hours away so I can’t see her every day. I mail her the postcards to give her something to look forward to.

Watercolor doodle of my favorite create

Small sketch in graphite using a mechanical pencil

The monsters we create A collection of creatures born from our impact and existance on Earth. This is a work in progress project, it doesn't yet have a name, but the story becomes more clear every day. Soon I will have more details about it, until then take care, this runner is taking a real shape and it's after you. He is the money maker, the greedy, the selfish buyer of unnecessary things with money he doesn't have. Sounds familyar? 7x7 cm linoprint © Maria ! Balan, 2018

Part of a tattoo project on going to build on a portfolio. Also art therapy in the later night owl hours when the mind wants to sketch but not to think :) A perfect subject here reflects that balance and time of peace

Brushpen and Inktense on sketchbook. She

Drawn with fineliners, made on A3 paper size.