End of 2012

Hello! It's been a while since I've uploaded, but I've been working on a lot! I ended up moving from Yokohama, Japan back to Houston, Texas (where I'm currently living) and stopped for 2 weeks in London on the way home. Before and after that time, I managed to gather my time to work on Christmas commissions and some inking exercises. Augie is the last painting I did in Japan and the rest have been drawn/ painted in the last 2 weeks I've been in America. I've been busy.

In other news, this might be my last post here. Please, please, PLEASE go to my Tumblr account and follow me here: http://kellyfscribbles.tumblr.com/

I WILL BE UPDATING MY TUMBLR OFTEN!!! I hope you all have brilliant New Year's parties and a beautiful and lovely 2013! Cheers!

Augie, Acrylic Painting, 22cm x 14cm

Betsy, Acrylic Painting, 5in x 7in

Angel, Acrylic Painting, 6in x 6in

Game Gurlz Miranda (Derrick Acosta) from Mega64, Digital, PSCS4

Rev and Blacky from The Howling, Digital, PSCS4

Dog Portrait/ Leaving

I'm finishing up with Japan, spending 2 weeks in London and moving internationally back to the US. Things have been quiet on the blog, but I've still been working. Life has just been incredibly hectic with the move. I'm debating whether to call it quits on this blog and move to a tumblr as well. Blogspot seems like a very well and dead platform, but I've been trying to avoid tumblr just because of all the art theft that goes on around those parts. Speaking of art theft, I've had my share of that lately.

On to brighter topics. Here's an animal portrait I've just recently completely.
Client's original image:

Painting:

This is my last animal portrait for a while due to the move and greener pastures. As you may/ may not have noticed... I've been directing my portfolio into a different direction. Come December, I'm grafting hard into the world of comics. This blog will either be exploding or a tumblr link may be coming your way. Who knows what the future holds?

Bentley Portrait

It's been quite a while since I've done a small pet portrait. I actually haven't touched acrylics in over a year. So, this was quite refreshing to do something traditional once more. I learned how to buy canvas and paints for the first time living in Japan (as I brought my gouache with me from America). In Japan, they size the canvas according to the traditional French sizes. This is an S0 size canvas (7"x7"). 

This was done for a nice lady in Houston as a present for her daughter. If you would like to order a portrait of your pet, I do ship internationally (now that I live in Japan). 

Original photos:

More Animal Portraits

Animal Portraits

Animal portraits are now available for sale. You can view some originals at TLC Animal Hospital. Prices as well as contact information are all listed below.

Dog Portrait

This is a portrait of one of my previous boss's dogs. She's a cute little chihuahua named Kyle. For those of you that don't know, when I was in high school, I used to work at a vet clinic. The first time I went to Japan (before I started college) I used the money I made there to fund half of the trip. My older sister still works there and asked me to paint a portrait of her boss's dog as a birthday present. I happened to have an unused 5" x 5" canvas lying around so I said, "Sure, Why not?" Here's the result of my little acrylic painting.

Here's a photo of the heads of the vet clinic w/ their animals. You can see Kyle in the picture for reference.

Plein Air Paintings

Most of these were completed in one session (around 2- 3 hours). The first two were done in oil and the last 3 were done in acrylic. It's interesting experimenting again in my landscape painting class. I'm obviously most satisfied with the last painting. It's the most resolved.

Pelican Skateboard

Painted in Acrylic for Sarasota School for Arts and Sciences Skateboarding Team Fund Raiser. Because people in Florida like Florida themed objects.

Christmas Presents

Here are the Christmas presents I did for my family and friends this year. I'm sorry the picture quality is terrible. I had to use my mom's snapshot camera to take the pictures (I left my D40x back in Sarasota). Needless to say the camera's ISO breaks down at 200. Strange I thought to have that much grain at 200. In order these were are (in the first picture): cupcake and icecream (Tiff), ring-tailed lemur (Jack), unicorn (mom), red panda (SJ), sea turtle (sister Erin), pig (sister Aileen). I hope you guys enjoy these despite the rushed paint job and picture- taking. ;)

Tata Gala Submission

This is my submission for this years Tata Gala! If you don't know about Tata Gala you can check it out here: http://www.tatagala.org
It's a non- profit show in Sarasota, FL that raises money for breast cancer. I painted a skateboard in acrylic this year. The show is going to be held this Saturday, November 14th, so come check it out!