Squishy World
A painting of a squishy, colorful world.
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Hacking 3D Printer Infill Patterns
I 3D-printed these earrings using a cool little hack of setting top and bottom wall thickness to 0.
Ride a Bike Today
My husband Daniel and I created this piece together during the holidays, and I forgot to post it so I'm doing so now. It started with a pen-and-ink drawing I drew. Then we transformed it several times, alternating photocopier distortion, gouache, watercolor, house paint, more pen and ink, and collage over and over.
Butterflies
Daniel and I painted these butterflies with gouache, pastels, and a brush pen. Originally my intent was to experiment with butterfly shapes for republishing my butterfly book, but then I decided to play around with brush shapes and mark-making. Daniel joined in the fun of giving the butterflies their beautiful coloration with me.
Real World Django Book Cover
Most of this cover design is admittedly from 2013. I updated parts of it. It may change dramatically as we flesh out the book, or it may stay mostly the same. I don't know yet.
Impossible Hero Books Logo
We're moving all five of our fantasy novels to a new publishing imprint! Daniel and I came up with the name "Impossible Hero Books" and created this logo together on the plane ride back home.
Veggies for the Modern Baby Book Cover
My husband Daniel designed this lovely book cover. The veggies are my illustrations from the book interior.
Yummy Yummy in Your Tummy
This is the first page of Veggies for the Modern Baby, the book we're making for our baby daughter Uma. Pictured are the lyrics to the song Danny and I sing while feeding her.
Roy Greenfeld Company Logo
Our logo for Roy Greenfeld, Inc. has been evolving. This is the latest iteration:
Rediscovery
This painting represents my recent experiences. Paths in various uncertain directions are overlapped with spiraling curves revisiting the past and building upon it. Along the way, beauty shows up in the most unexpected places.
Watercolor and Stenciled Paper Mandalas
I love using recycled materials. I cut out these snowflakes from the heavy cardstock backing piece of a pack of markers. I estimate it as 120-150lb cardstock. The 3-inch piece cut well, but the 2-inch one didn't cut cleanly.
Voronoi Mandalas
SciPy has tools for creating Voronoi tessellations. Besides the obvious data science applications, you can use them to make pretty art like this:
Gleaming Mountain
The fourth piece in my series of watercolors inspired by Tolkien's illustrations.
Circle Flowers
A simple doodle of circle flowers bending in the wind.
House Over Waterfall
A third piece inspired by Tolkien's artwork, depicting a plateau with a small house overlooking a gigantic waterfall.
Land of Five Suns
This is another piece inspired by Tolkien's illustrations. I wanted it to be a scene from another planet, though, so I gave it five suns and tried to make the land a bit otherworldly.
River and Mountains
Few are aware that J. R. R. Tolkien was as great an artist as a writer. His art is incredibly inspiring. It inspired me to paint this piece.
Flowers and a Blue Potato
I've painted yet another tribute to a Chris Foss illustration I'm obsessed with. This version has flowers instead of an explosion, and the asteroid is actually a blue potato.
Willow Tree
For Day 18 of 100 days of watercolor.
Cloud Garden
For day 19 of 100 days of watercolor.
Hand Lettering for Two Scoops 1.8
I've been doing hand lettering for a long time as a side hobby. You might have seen some of my lettering before, including the famous Pyladies script logo.
Early Watercolor of the Two Scoops 1.8 Cover
Here's an earlier snapshot of a work-in-progress version of the Two Scoops of Django 1.8 book cover. This one was a watercolor painting.
Cover Art for Two Scoops of Django 1.8
Here's the cover illustration for our latest book, Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8. It depicts vines growing ice cream cones.
Strawberries
One of my favorite plates at home has a strawberry pattern printed on it. This is sort of loosely inspired by seeing that pattern almost every day.
Metallic Flower Doodles
Just playing around with metallic watercolor pencils. They don't really look metallic. They're like regular watercolor pencils, but with the colors just a bit desaturated.
Exploding Flower
For Day 12 of my "100 Days of Watercolor" project.
Giant Flying Dog
Book cover for a story about a giant flying dog who drools all over a quiet suburb, causing chaos and evacuations.
Two Scoops of Ice Cream
Another fictional book cover. This one is a parody of a real book that you may have heard of :)
The Garden of Feelings
A book cover for a story is about a garden where all the plants have feelings.
Flying Dog Sketches
I started writing a short story about flying dogs awhile back. The story is a work-in-progress, but I hope to finish it soon and post it on Wattpad.
Endless Food
This is a draft of a cover for another short story about food teleportation. For some reason I'm stuck on that idea. Not sure why.
Simple Garden
I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I work on my paintings for the 100 day project, I do them at night right before bed when I'm completely exhausted. My state of mind in these situations is wanting to get the painting over with as quickly as possible so I can get to bed.
The Greatest Cheese in the World
Awhile back, I wrote a humorous story about Danielle and Andrew, two cheese connoisseurs who set out on a pilgrimage in search of the world's greatest cheese.
Spring Garden
Abstract art is deceptively hard to create. It always looks so easy that a child could do it, yet it practice it's one of the hardest things.
Typography for Into the Brambles Paperback
Lately I've been working on the inside design for the paperback version of Into the Brambles.
Ice Cream Cake With Starfish
Everyone has a default doodle or two that they make when they can't think of what to draw. Sometimes when I can't think of what to draw, my default is ice cream. I blame Two Scoops of Django for this.
Waves From My Dreams
When I close my eyes and picture waves, this is what I imagine. The shells are intentionally oversized because they are giant shellfish.
Moon Over the Waves
I tried to make the light appear foggy and iridescent, with sea sprays glistening in the light.
Cover Design for Into the Brambles
I did the cover design for Into the Brambles, the first book of Daniel's forthcoming epic fantasy series The Brambles.
Palace Dome, From the Presidio
The Presidio is a large area of parkland on the northwest side San Francisco. It used to be a military base, but now it's occupied by a mixture of residential and commercial buildings. I woke up early today to try painting from a coffee shop there, which turned out to be filled with employees of Intel, ILM, and other Presidio corporate tenants.
Golden Gate Bridge II
The other day, while I was painting the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, I kept thinking about how I wanted to get closer to it and then do another painting.
Golden Gate Bridge I
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of those landmarks that's irresistible to watercolor painters, especially me. Even with all the other closer, brighter scenery around, the bridge and hills of in the far distance lured me to paint them.
The Boatyard
Last year, Danny and I spent almost a month in Split, Croatia. It was the end of the summer, so it was pretty quiet.
Ceramic Bird
This bird was half of a pair of two, an engagement gift from Aunt Lois in October of 2011.
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