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butterfly #4: The Clouded Yellow. The hardest part here is the background! It would be too easy just to paint a cloud...I have about 5-6 different backgrounds, but only uploading one here is my fav of the bunch

"The tree-dwelling species are more solitary"

Label design I did for Snitz Creek Brewing and Abomination Brewing Co.

Graphite on moleskin drawn in a car travelling far away.

Everybody poops -- ESPECIALLY unicorns!

This piece consist of 2 sheets, the bottom sheet is painted by my four year old daughter, on top of that is a orange paper which I cut the kitchenware out of.

This was a commission for portraits of 2 dogs using watercolor for the dogs and acrylics for the background. Painted on Aquabord which makes the watercolor so saturated that they appear opaque

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

Flying ravens

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.

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

I had to edit about 60 corporate headhsots at work. Ended up doodling out about 10 of these on the back of a contact sheet during a meeting!

Gouache painting in my sketchbook. What if the dog planter were alive...