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I've been re-reading the Harry Potter Series, and now am on a quest to do a small illustration for each of the books. This one is from "The Sorcerer's Stone" and features Mrs. Norris, my favorite evil cat.

Drawn with a black pilot pen using many strokes.

Pen ink on paper, retouched in iPad

Added some color to an ink sketch from the recording session I recently attended.

30 x 40 cm / acrylics, oil + some splashes of nail polish on canvas

Impressionist koi pond watercolor

For the past two months ive been participating on the #drawthisinyourstyle challege at instagram. Here are some of the ones i made. Many more on my instagram account @mjdaluz_illustration

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

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.)

Peony flower drawn and painted in magenta Bombay India ink on watercolor paper.

Serious on the left, doodle on the right.

Inspired by my 90s nostalgia and the movie "Reality Bites"

I love drawing old houses, another monochromatic study in ink and gouache.

Monochromatic portraits using blue gel pen

"His heart turned off when his mind needed to listen." ~ A blackout poem from a recycled page of Riding with the Hides of Hell, now titled Burnout.

First time i’m using iPad pro to doodle. This artwork still on progress.

I was in Münster for the Skulptur Projekte in 2017 and made this map on a rainy day.

Watercolor and gauche of a place I walk around sometimes to digest my lunch

Watercolor and crayon on bits and pieces of paper

I thought of Edward Hopper when I came upon this view but a daytime version of his corner etching. I used watercolor, pen, and colic markers

March 2018

Slow journey. Personal work. Pencil drawing and digital

Sunset castle done with fineliners

It's a mad world we're living in

Playing with some experimental media while drawing from life with my students last spring. Gearing up for new sessions in a couple weeks.

Part 3 of my China sketchbook from last summer.