Etsy

I added new art to my Etsy store.  Including prints of all the Alice in Wonderland pieces.  

www.neesha.etsy.com

Have a splendid day.

Alice in Wonderland

Hi boys and girls.  I've been spending a lot of time painting, working, and sleeping lately.  That's pretty much all I've done these last two weeks.  I did this series for a Staff Art Show we had at the coffee shop I work at.  The show will be up the entire month of July so if you're in the Brunswick, Me area at all you should stop by.  The address is 87 Maine St.  I'm quite proud of all of us.  The show turned out really well.

I chose Alice in Wonderland as a theme because it is my favorite story of all time and I could illustrate it a hundred different times and never get tired of it.  I want to do more characters, such as the Mad Hatter.  Speaking of, I could have cried when I pictures from the new Alice in Wonderland movie.  Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Lewis Carroll all coming together as one?  Probably the most amazing thing ever in the history of the world...ever.

Speaking of good movies.  Check out the trailer for "Where the Wild Things Are."  That looks amazing too.  

Wanderlust

I got back from Ireland about a week ago, hence the lack of posting.  It was an unforgettable trip.  Everyday was filled with things to see, do, hear, taste, so needless to say I didn't have as much time as I would've liked for sketching.  I did manage to get a few pages down though.  These are quick gesture drawings of people I did while sitting on the green at Trinity College in Dublin.  I liked sketching there, people didn't move much.

Please No Shoes

I did a painting for my mom to put in her entry so that people don't wear shoes in her house.  Above this image it says "Please take off shoes".  See if you can find Flava-flave Darth Vader.

Hi.  A few people have been sending me some really encouraging e-mails lately and I just wanted to say thank you :)  These are a couple of paintings I for a series called "whatever Neesha wants to paint because she is sick of trying to come up with a meaningful theme."  I'll post more later.

Hibernation is Over

SO there have been a few distractions to say the least but I am back.  At least for the time being.  I just finished a couple of freelance jobs which means I now have more time to work on my portfolio.  Which I have a goal to do 8 new pieces to put in a new portfolio to send out before April.  So this drawing is apparently Dorothy and the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz.  Toto is there too.  I'm gonna paint it, but thought I'd post the sketch first.  Process wahoo!

OH I also wont the art contest with my Andrew Bird painting :)  His new album is lovely and I encourage all to go pick it up.  I am going to Boston this weekend to see him live in fact.

That's all for the moment. Thanks for stopping by.

I was looking through the latest Spectrum yesterday and it made me want to do a weird little sci-fi drawing. 

I don't really know what this is.  It started out as a potential "Alice in Wonderland" painting.  I was thinking of rewriting the story where the "real world" and "fantasy world" are switched.  So like when she falls down the rabbit hole everything is normal there and she tries to cope with it.  I think that would be the less exciting version though.

"Then Alice knocked on the door of a woman who called child services because she thought Alice had been abandoned.  Alice lived with foster parents until she was 18 and moved to California to be a singer.  She wasn't very good so she worked at a diner to get by.  The end."

Andrew Bird

I walked into a local music store the other day and they were having an art contest.  Basically you just had to draw your favorite singer, actor, or video game character.  The nerd in me really wanted to do some fan art of Zelda, but I decided not to.  If I win I get a $100 gift certificate (wahoo!) and a t-shirt (even bigger wahoo!).  So I did a quick painting of Andrew Bird, my new favorite singer.  He's coming to Boston in January and I am so excited to go see him!  

Anyway, that's enough rambling for now.

Knitbot Graphics

So you should head over to www.knitbot.com and check out the new banner and logo I did for my friend Hannah.  She has published one book on knitting and is working on her second.  I want to thank her for letting me do the banner and putting a little interview of me on her blog.  If your into knitting definitely check out her stuff, it's awesome.  

Logos, Icons, and Graphics oh my!

Hi.  So I've been somewhat busy these past few weeks doing some graphic design work.  I made a logo and banner for Knitbot.com, which should be up soon.  I also made this little character for my aunts new cleaning business called "Green Maids"  she uses all organic cleaning products and recycled paper towels, etc.  I'm not done with the logo yet, but this little lady went in the yellow page ad.  I need to do some tweaking on her so any comments/crits would be delightful.  

I also have a job designing icons for a company's new application that is coming out on iphone.  I need to thank Ringling for that one.  The company saw my work on the Ringling website and contacted me.  Wahoo!

As soon as I can I want to start working on my idea for a new book too.  It's called "The Rainbow Colored Snow Fox".  I'm super excited and will post some sketches soon.  I think this will be the one I take around to publishers this winter.

Stay warm!

Andrew & Coraline

I'm reading "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman.  It was described as being similar to "Alice in Wonderland" except darker.  I like it so far.  This isn't an illustration based on the book, I just stole the name because I liked it.

I'm trying to keep my colors cleaner.  If you haven't gone here yet you should and see some amazing illustrations of "The Little Prince" and "Alice in Wonderland".  By the way, anyone know how to order books from Korea?

IF: Repair

sadness.

Sorry for the delay!

Life has kind of taken over for awhile, hence the lack of posting.  But I felt the need to show SOMETHING, even if it is just a tiny clip of a new illustration that will be on my website.  This is to assure you I am still arting.  I'm saving my newer work for the website, which is also taking up a lot of time, then this will be more of a news/sketch blog.  But I will get back to working on my promise to post every week.

On the upside I have a few new freelance jobs.  So that is keeping me busy. I'm realizing more and more it's true what the teachers said: you do art, not to make money (because the term "starving artist" is there for a reason), but because you can't do anything else.

IF: Clutter

I drew this for this weeks Illustration Friday topic. My hair definitely feels like this sometimes.

Circus

Hello hello. So I'm done working at Carter's in one week. Then I move on back up to Maine. It was a really good experience, and I am very glad I took the internship. I learned a lot, met a ton of great people, and got to experience a new area. I will say I am leaving with a wealth of research and inspiration. I have never looked at so many other artist's work as in these last two months. Every day I do at least a half hour to hour of research, which really gets you pumped to do art.

Speaking of art, I originally did this piece for my website. But since I have no idea when I will be able to get around to finishing it, I decided to just post this now. I had Gris Grimly's newest (i think newest) book sitting next to me as I was doing this...if you can't tell.

Until next time!