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
Lines study. Daler downey ink on paper.
Failed Book Concept No.1
Back to the basics!
fishes drawn with a pentel brush pen
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.
This was one if my first sketches I did after receiving a package of brushpens
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
Bees, drawing ink on paper
From my online comic @ doodletowncomic.com
Dream. Play. And don’t let anyone stop your crazy!
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.
