Category: Drawing
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Taniku shokubutsu
Taniku shokubutsu, or “spoiled child”, according to Weblio‘s definition of the word “succulents” in Japanese: I guess a spoiled child would probably be ta-niku (have plenty of meat)! I had absolutely no IDEA about the succulent-verse online until I photographed the adorable little things as I was walking one day. Peeps are real serious about…
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Artistic Process – Where Cool Pillows Come From
I grew a few gray hairs creating this Cosmic Damask fabric pattern, but it was way worth it! From pencil sketches, scanning, and then repeat process. You’ll need some tracing paper for this, unless you prefer using a drawing app with a digital stylus. First, I scoured the web for a nice old damask pattern.…
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Moto Kitty Baby
UPDATE 7 June 2019: I’ve closed my Zazzle store due to their April 2019 change of policy. My Redbubble store is still open here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/studiozandra/portfolio/recent Original baby wear by Zandra, fresh out now. Don’t have a baby? Shop ALL the Moto Kitty STUFF: http://www.zazzle.com/collections/moto_kitty-119152128200030669 Shop ALL the Kitty FABRIC: http://www.spoonflower.com/collections/162257-all-teh-kittehs-by-zantoka
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Cosmic Duvet
Zoom in on this “paisley” to see the spacemen! Also available as bags, pillows, phone cases, and more items at Redbubble and Society6 !
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My Bucketfeet Print now live!!
The folks at Bucketfeet selected one of my pieces for sale as a print! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/HanbunBlack UPDATE: Shop for shoes at Bucketfeet via this link AND use this discount code ACIfwBvA for 20% off: https://www.bucketfeet.com/?utm_source=artist&utm_medium=program&utm_content=groupC&utm_campaign=AP_C_ZandraKubota
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NYC’s spring flowers barge into my sketchpad!
I haven’t drawn flowers for about a decade, and that was a single three-foot wide tulip. Where these latest ones came from, I can only guess. I think it’s the spring flowers everywhere — they kind of demand one’s attention, bursting out between concrete slabs, clawing their way over chain link fences, getting in in…
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The only activity I ever enjoyed more than drawing…
…was reading, back when library cards were blue cardboard squares. It took me on quite a long detour in life, as instead of continuing fine art after LaGuardia HS, I ended up majoring in English. The third page of my newest pad of paper was devoted to words, and the word “word”. Literally, kotoba, in…
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Drawing — Pen on Claybord
Last week I finished my drawing called “Futari”. I drew on two 5 x 7 inch Clayboards, using pencil and Sakura fine point pens. As it will soon be two years since I got hitched, I wanted to play with the concept of marriage. Trying to capture the strangeness of being married; there is some…
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If you want to feel pure wonderfulness…
As my office job quit date nears, I am re-developing my artistic muscles, which DO indeed atrophy! In order to get back into art making, I thought I’d enjoy some basic drawing, and my mom gave me an old Koh-I-Noor rapidograph which had lain in a drawer for years. The worn sticker on the plastic…