anima

Pencil drawing I did a number of years ago. Self portrait of myself with my mare, Chia. Graphite on bristol board. Took probably about 40 hours. This particular piece is sold.

1st acrylic bird. It was a practice painting for an art project.

This is my 2nd bird in acrylic.

Drawn in Procreate.

Cute little kid study from pictures I took at a petting zoo.

An ink and pencil drawing of a tiger.

This is an original acrylic painting. This is a collage of information meant to maximize the intensity of the calmness of the animal.

I had this black cardboard lying around for quite some time so I finally decided to make something out of it. Went for a intense lighting on a horse silhouette because the cardboard is dark and well, because I really like horses. Hope you like it.

That was my first animal painting, chose ocelot, because the are so beautiful and unusual. It is done with oilcolors on canvas.

Watercolour bears

using Inktober prompt list from Furrylittlepeach.

Patternz series 3

Patternz series 3

Drew this for a professor that mentored me on my first research paper! You can also find me on facebook www.facebook.com/sonialaiart for WIP and updates!

A slightly older pencil drawing from last year, untitled.

A flock of pelicans with their beaks open waiting for fishermen to throw out tasty morsels. I drew this from a photo I took last month, from a coastal vacation. India Inks and watercolours.

I hope that in the future we will forget about circus with animals

that’s how I’m spending the spring weekend, when it’s -8 °C outside

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Those puns couldn't be translate!

Animals with oil pastels on black paper. Using the black paper as lines

Little fox dude adoring the crescent moon

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Class demos in my "Sketching for Animators and Illustrators" class. The building in the foreground is a students sketch I xeroxed and went over with acrylics. This is about a half hour in. We also looked at brush-pen and watercolor. I'm doing a summer ve

Toothy boy and friend…

Seal time?

I turned 33. Of course I spent it arting :-)

It’s all twins…

And that’s a wrap from this current sketchbook! Closing things with some Peter Falk wisdom I’ve shared before, I think… “My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.”