city

16x20 acrylic and ink on wood.

Colored pencil and ink on pastel paper.

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 3 of my China sketchbook from last summer.

Made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life. Here is crowded Istanbul city

Page 18 of my Journey Journal. A study of my first impressions of the city of Berlin. Ink, gouache, watercolour on toned paper.

8x12 acrylic and ink on wood with wooden frame.

in the streets of Nice, looking up

#Swollen is the word for #inktober #day17. Because the city I live in is swollen from cars, buildings, humans, rats, pigeons, dirt and trash I considered the word to be proper for the problem of urbanization. Even if it's a natural transformation, it comes with a lot of issues. I see it as a concrete and steel monster eating the nature that stands in its way. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

I had a wonderful time creating this commision for a Kansas City Personalities wall mural installed in a downtown KC apartment building. The wall measures roughly 12’ x 20’. These were all hand drawn graphite and charcoal drawings that I scanned into my mac and delivered digitally. The file was then enlarged and applied to the wall surface.

A few sketches from the streets.

Cityscape illustration inspired by the legendary animator Katsuhiro Otomo and the movie Akira. A5, Sharpie Pens, 2022

The old city gate (the 'Sassenpoort') in Zwolle.

Went to another city by train with lead time about 3 hours & sketched inside the train

Today’s adventure took us to the KC City Market to sketch. We rode the streetcar to have lunch and draw. These are my sketches for the day.

Illustration of my ideal living environment

Graphics on artificially aged paper. Mixed media, ink, acrylic, 70x53 cm, 2025

Abstract painting "The Dark City". Canvas on cardboard, acrylic, 30x40 cm, 2023

What startet as a somewhat mindless marker-sketch at a cafè while having a conversation later came out as a pretty cool cityscape. Probably inspired by the movie Tekkon Kinkreet, which I watched previously.

A rough doodle about living with Corona.

city of sihaba

Pen and ink doodle of a fantasy city in the sky.

From the crossing corner, on a busy city street.

Abstract painting "A refugee leaves his native quarter" whatman, mixed media, acrylic and marker, 54x54 cm, 2023