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For my 5.th upcoming colouringbook, fashion and pattern colouring. This I coloured myself, just to see if it’s a good cover, but I used another illustration and less colour.

"Her cricket kids traipse in to wash their hands." Cricket is a popular bat-and-ball game in Australia where the winning team gets to eat crickets at the end of a match.

A quick sketch of a man holding a cup of coffee. This was drawn from a reference photo. Lately I've been practicing portraits. Trying to limit myself to 20 mins or so and just draw the basic form as best I can. Otherwise I'll fiddle with the details and spend hours trying to adjust things. Sketching in ink helps also since I can't erase. Need to get more comfortable sketching faster, but I like the way this turned out.

Cactus inspired watercolor washes in my sketchbook. Kept this one very lose to see what happens. Watercolor is always full of surprises.

Portrait of an old fisherman sketched with ink and coffee wash. Trying to experiment with some different styles and techniques.

Illustration painted with watercolors and outlined with pink pen. The borders were achieved with washi tape (low tack and unlikely to tear up your paper.)

"Mount Saint Helens had a cramp." ~ A blackout poem from Burnout, a young adult love and adventure story.

A view of Memorial Bridge, the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. Ink + Markers by Grazia Montalto www.graziamontalto.com

One of my latest collages for this year. This is a vintage found portrait altered with pens, stickers and washi tape. Enjoy!

A pencil portrait of a popular instagrammer.

Another doodle realised for my personal 100 Days Project.

These patterns are all made from drawings pulled from my 2017 sketchbook project. I studied fiber arts in grad school and learned how to do repeat patterns - the old fashioned way by cutting and taping paper together... I haven't done any in 25 years - until this month!

The purple socks that went missing

Portraits of folks in the neighborhood. Working with traditional as well as digital (Artrage 5) and enjoying the process.

Everyone should do life drawing. We all should be forced to look at people different to us as a mandatory part of education.

Fashion illustration

This is one of my daily contributes to the 100 days project. I am doodling over a fashion magazine and documenting my journey on Instagram. Anyone of you are participating to this challenge?

Pens and washi tape on vintage postcard.

I've been inspired by my mother's smoking, one of my best friends' obsession over the rose ash color and the magic spirit of October.

One of commissioned project of watercolor illustration for bridesmaid's attire guide.

"If I die, I'm taking you with me," Ebineezer whispered into Slasher's gaping, drooling maw. The explosion was heard for miles around.

I've started a new sketch book (one of many, lol), which I am dedicating to ink drawings only. No pencils, no watercolours, just pen and ink :) I drew this doodle today with a Uniball pen and a light ink wash for the space sky. No reference, totally made up. Mistakes and all! Available as stickers and other goodies on Red Bubble. Sketchbook is Stillman and Birn Alpha - I love, love, love the whiteness of its pages!

This is a new series of contemporary paper collages realised using a mix and match of new and vintage paper. I used: • Vintage paper ephemera (old postcards, paper cuts, portraits) • Recycled paper from envelopes • Brand new paper cuts • For the decorations I mostly used marker pens, stickers and washi tape.

Digital fashion illustration of Maison Margiela Spring/Summer 2017 haute couture collection

Mashup of geometric patterns and some organic shapes.