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Everybody's Searching For A Place To Belong

Painting, drawing, crayoning, markering (I just made that word up)...it's always more fun when a child is involved, even when they purposefully color over a character. It adds character to the character, no?

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Bombay India Ink on Yupo Paper, creating a pretty colorful abstract pattern.

Kitty Garden - Painted Illustration

Bunnies in the Garden - painted illustration

The Look of Love – Orange Tabby Cat painted illustration by Bernadette Sheridan

Just me and my little world

Another face under construction. Spray paint, ink, acrylic paint, marker on wood panel. 46"x36"

Two spreads featuring Victorian portraits made with ink and watercolor.

A3 paining inspired by the aquarium in Valencia, Spain. Painted in a combo of gouache and watercolor

Painting digitally to warming my figures up.

Red roses drawn in my sketch book with ink and watercolors. Design available as stickers, prints, clothing and homewares.

Watercolour doodle in my Moleskine sketchbook. Flower pots in different shapes, sizes and colors.

I messed up a face (just to the left of the spine), and then painted over it into a... unholy horror. I don't want to mess with that thing.

Sometimes I lurk around RedditGetsDrawn and doodle the people there. This has ink, watercolor, acrylic, and then more ink. I don't know when to leave well enough alone.

YlyaYod_sketch 027, 2017 paper, ink, pencil 210 x 297 mm. N027_600 x 800 px

A series I did a few years ago. Me myself and I.

I always admired those hand-painted signs outside the barbershops, so I made my own. Actually, you look like you need a fresh new hairstyle yourself. I can hook you up

I wanted to draw a twisted figure falling.

YlyaYod_sketch 026, 2017 paper, ink, pencil 210 x 297 mm. N026_600 x 800 px

Third portrait from the collection "Women of the world"

Original pencil sketch and final digital painting of some wacky underwater characters.

Quick gouache sketch of pup

Reebok commissioned me to customize a pair of their white Classics in time for a holiday giveaway (2017).

Here we have some very fancy European history folks, a creature that might be a dummy, and Harry Potter as a nervous waiter who can't remember if you got diet or regular soda. Because, let's face it, Harry was never THAT good at magic.

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

This doodle is based off Norman Rockwell’s The Tattoo Artist and pairs with the blog I wrote about how I think our society needs to change the words we use to describe love. ❤️ “ Love is a collaborative work of art.” https://princess2dutchess.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/loneliness/