Drawing Day---UFO series

I had a drawing day with girls past Sunday and started this UFO series,I've done 3, and the story will continue. I'm excited what the mouse girl and mouse babies will do when they return to the earth! so stay tuned :-)

These drawings are going to the show at HQ gallery in Montreal for their Dec Show!

Collaboration with Noted ---thaumatrope by contemporary designers

I had a great opportunity to design a thaumatrope with the paper toy company Noted.I remember I had one when I was a kid.

After brainstorming, I did small sketches to share my ideas with an art director from Noted.

We decided to go with the "Bear eating Girl" so I worked on a final version... First I drew them in a white back ground using brush and sumi ink, then guache to color. Then the company realized that thaumatrope works best in lightly colored background.  (i didn't know either!) So I colored the back ground cream yellow by computer.

and they just sent me the final product!  it's really nicely packaged and super cute!

you can visit Noted here: http://www.notedco.com/spin.html

Collaboration with Rooms Magazine

I got an e-mail from Eva from new art magazine call "rooms" in England.And had a proposal to do a cover for their first issue! I was very excited. Since the magazine was called "rooms" I wanted to draw something that represent the idea of nesting. Since I moved around a lot in my life time, nesting for me means moving with Objects and Memories and making a comfortable atmosphere. So I drew this image.  A Girl carring her objects/memories on her antler and walking in the forest.

And I received the final magazine the other day, it looks great!  thank you Eve!

Link to the Rooms Magazine --->  http://www.roomsmagazine.com/

Aya + Inspire!

Helene Rossi from Inspire! sent me a message about her project. The project Inspire! ---> She will send me a blind sample of a perfume then I illustrate from the inspiration from the scent. Such an interesting project, I of course said "YES! count me in!"

So few weeks later....I received the mysterious vials...

It smelled like sweet, rose, botanical and a bit of of citrus??? My nose investigated the scent and my brain was trying hard to come up with an image! I imagined a girl with a orange head-dress sleeping in a Polynesian Island at night, Rose in a cage...

And I sent it over to Helene, she sent me the answer, the name of the mystery perfume!

Voila!!!  Rose Noir! so I think my imagination wasn't too far from the scent!  :-D

You can see Helene's Inspire! project + what the other artists came up with different mysterious scents: http://www.inspire-blog.com/