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This was my submission to the recent Mother Nature doodle challenge held here. Mixed media using traditional watercolor and digital line art/embellishments. It is now available on Society6 as a print, stationery, and a variety of phone cases.

Watercolor on Fabriano paper.

not drawn since then (1994), maybe I should give it another go?

inspired by the classics #DaVinci and experimenting with markers and a different paper (not very good).

Canvas mounted on wooden frame. Size: 25 x 30 cm Materials: acrylic, Chinese ink, brush, pen and marker. Is sold the original piece. For this reason, there may be slight differences from one piece to another.

Canvas mounted on wooden frame. Size: 25 x 30 cm Materials: acrylic, Chinese ink, brush, pen and marker. Is sold the original piece. For this reason, there may be slight differences from one piece to another.

After my high school boyfriend and I broke up, I went to prom with a group of single friends. While I was in the bathroom, I overheard someone saying, "Leah Budin put in no effort at all." Ouch.

When I was a teen, my grandfather had alzheimers, a failing heart, and half of one lung. He was covered with scars and sometimes muttered at walls. I was asked to keep an eye on him, briefly, one afternoon, while my grandmother did something else. While I was alone with him, he looked at an empty space right next to me, and whispered: "Mom? Dad? Is that you?" With the exception of getting hit by a car, that was the most terrifying moment of my life.

Posca, fineliners and page from an old book.

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

Watercolor jellyfish with negative painting and multiple washes to give depth. Ph Martins no bleeding white created a glow effect

Digital illustration of a woman enjoying the water at the introverts retreat.... not a soul around.

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.

oil pastels

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

This is my Favourite Book Shop in the north east of England.

A traditional illustration painted digitally.

A few days ago, I could see a flock of quail, they came directly to my window, when one of them did not manage to climb with the others and crashed into my window. I quickly went to see her but she had already died.

Inspired by lamb of gods - nightmare seeker, slipknots - virus of life and my own random thoughts as the songs progress.

Quick sketch. With a quote from Herman Melville.

pen and ink on paper, 5"x7"

i doodled this a few weeks ago, my son and daughter in law have now claimed it for the wall.

One of my submissions for "the rhinos are coming".

Failed Book Concept No.1

Another doodle realised for my personal 100 Days Project. Doodle inspired by the lyrics of Meat Puppets’ song

Another face in my journal that has black paper.

Penguin painted with watercolour

"Remember to forget. Forget to remember." ~ A blackout poem from a recycled page of Riding with the Hides of Hell--now titled Burnout--a Young Adult romance.