It's Batgirl!

I had a different idea for this one but she turned into a kokeshi anyway... I think I am going to do another batgirl in my floating circle head chick way. If that doesn't make sense don't worry... it will happen soon. muahahahahah

Inktober Day 20

Heart Kokeshi

Had a wonderful day off today of doing absolutely nothing! My husband and I were going to clean the garage but... yeah. Movies and chill for the day. Happy Thursday!

Inktober Day 8

Mermaid Inktober Day 7

In the nick of time! lol

Sleep well my sweet.

Halloween is coming and I could not be more thrilled! Although I still need to figure out my costume...

Day 6: Inktober

Peek a boo! Day 2

I have made it to day two of inktober successfully! Go me! 

... and go everyone else who is being creative all October long! ... hopefully. 

Roll with it. Hello October!

Whew... it has been awhile! But here I am. In appreciation of Inktober (or Artober because I don't enjoy working in ink besides sketching...) I am going to try to do art every day this month. It is also my birthday month, Halloween and everything wonderful about Fall, oh how I love thee October!

I will be sketching in ink but not posting those sketches because they are trash. The final work is what comes of those sketches SO DEAL WITH IT INKTOBER! hahahahah

Flower Kimono Kokeshi Girl #2

Bunny love! ^^

Flower Kimono Kokeshi Girl and Panda

Hello Cuties!

Bottoms up! ^^

Tails of acrobatic chicks and a dragon!

Happy New Year!

Time to start anew! How exciting! ^^

Merry Christmas!

Just finished watching Scrooged, ate some good ham and now I am watching the Lady Gaga Holiday Muppet special! Yay! I hope your holidays are swell!

Back to normal life... Oh Japan, I miss you!

So I finally had the time to draw for myself in between my freelance work that I have been doing for the last couple weeks:

Yay the final forest girl!

Japan was Amazing!!! During our three months there we stayed in Nogoya, visited Kyoto twice, Osaka, Tokyo, climbed Mt. Fuji, bought too many Kokeshi dolls, shopped too much in general, learned the art of Kimekomi, got awesome Japanese nail art on my hands and feet, visited the Totoro house, and ate so much wonderful food!!! I loved every moment of it and didn't want to leave... although I missed my animals back home.

Since then I have been making a few of the dishes that were a staple in Japan and now I cant live without. Pork Udon is one of my favorites to make.

And its picture time!

There were so many pictures it was hard to narrow them down! A couple of other highlights were the Robot Restaurant in Tokyo which was AMAZING!!! So worth the money! Also while in Japan we hit up two music venues (I got to see BUCK-TICK OMG OMG OMG), went to Universal Studios and Disney World, along with another amusement park that was similar to Cedar Point. It was a complete blast!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you had a great one!

Instead of posting my last Forest Girl today... the skunk, along with some of my Japan pictures, I felt like drawing a Turkey Girl for T-Day and saving that for my next post! ^^

Inspired by my lovely feast for the day and the many leftovers... YAY!

Squirrel Girl while in Japan!

I've been in Japan almost three months! I drew this at the beginning of the trip and forgot to post it. I will be leaving soon and will have to make a big post about my travels. It's been a blast and I have many pictures!!

Lady Bunny

Its been pretty rainy around here lately... which has been great for our lawn but not really good for anything else... hah, I want to go to the beach!

Anywho, here is the next illustration out of what I am thinking will be a series of 4 of these Forest Animal Ladies!

Here I Am! and here is a Foxy Lady with her Little Owl Friend! ^^

I feel like I have been all over the place lately... well not really hahah, I have just been in my house making patterns, but my mind has been all over! I think its settling now so I can begin to start doing my illustrations again and sharing them with whoever happens to poke by!

I will have to make sure to update on a regular basis and am excited to share that I will be traveling to Japan in like a month and half... cant wait! CANT WAIT!

Here she is: Hello Foxy Lady!

Also I did a little refurbish project a couple days ago. I found a cute old jewelry box that was just like the one my mom had that I would sneak in her room and play with when I was a kid... shhhhh! She had lots of fun little jewelry and buttons and such to play with. I'm not sure if hers also played music but this one does which is sweet. It has a crank in the back and when you open the bottom drawer it plays.

I ripped out all of the inner suede type material from the drawers, in the top and also the sides of the walls and floor in the necklace hanging areas and replaced it with some cute scrapbooking paper that I had lying about. I don't think you can tell in the pictures but I did do a little dry brushing on the metal nobs with a metalicy green to give it a little pop. Also I just love the paint color, it was a sample Pantone color paint, Emerald Green, that I found at Lowe's the other day. I bought two of them and now need to find lots of stuff to paint green hahahah. I have a breadbox that I put letters in that I think I will do next!

Goggles Girl Nia

This piece is based off of a face I saw in some decoration that wasn't supposed to resemble a face... I couldn't even look at it without seeing this goggled face and curled hair. I see many faces when I look around at random patterns, trees, etc. Wasn't there a twilight zone or something with a story about a person that went crazy from seeing faces everywhere? hmmm.

Hello again!

Well it has been FOREVER since my last post... oh my! This illustration is titled Margaret.

Lets see, what have I been up to? I started my own company called Acacia MoonTree. I design fun, unique, colorful soy candles, which can be found on my site or on etsy, check em out! So far I have come out with two lines, summer and winter (holiday). I hope to be putting up prints and other items on my etsy site soon.

And since I have updated the look of my blog today I am posting the old look here for memory! I hope you enjoy the new look! =)

Panda Hood

^^

Flower Love

Peace, love and flowers to you!

I have a new website! Yay! Check it out! I recently quit my job and am now a freelancer! So its time for a new site! I have a few other projects that I am working on too that I can hopefully share soon!!! ^^

www.ririwillow.com