Festival

It's officially summer, and summer in Boston never fails to remind me of Japan. It has the same kind of heat and humidity, and sometimes even the same smells. So here's a little nostalgic ode to Japan. This goldfish catching game is common during summer festivals. You get a little paper net that tears easily when it gets wet. If you can catch a fish with it, you get to take it home!

Florence

More sketches from Europe, this time Florence. All of them are of sculptures, except for the one of the girl drawing, which is my sister, Kay.

In Memory

I created this in loving memory of one of the greatest wizards of all time, Albus Dumbledore. I always felt like the movies never quite did him justice, so I tried to give him the warmth and sparkle that I imagine when I read the books. And of course he's not Dumbledore without Fawkes. :)

WTD: Mucky

The "What the Doodle?" word for this week was mucky. Here's what I came up with. Check out what everyone else did over on our Creative Juices blog!

Venice

Sketches from Venice.

Paris for Real

I just returned from an amazing two weeks of traveling around four of the greatest cities in Europe with my sister, Kay. We did a lot of walking around, which got pretty tiring, so we made good use of our rest stops by sitting and sketching. Often this happened in art museums, so I have a lot of drawings of classical sculptures. Here's what I took from our first city, Paris. Locations were the Louvre, Musee Dorsay, and the street outside the Catacombs.

Paris!

Tomorrow I'm off to meet my sister in Paris! She'll be flying from Cali, and I from Boston. It will be our first visit, and also our first time traveling alone together, so it will be quite an adventure. We'll also be wandering through Italy, stopping in Venice, Florence and Rome.

Adieu!