Merry Christmas

Feliz Navidad e Prospero Año y Felicidad.

A little Llama for the holidays

One of my newest art collections call Yo Amo llama which means I love llama. A fun bold colorful design for the bedroom.

Some surface designs for the room. 

Every room needs a I love llama poster. 

And some sample mock up of throw pillows for the room with lovely tassels. 

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Product Collections

Garden Bloom Collection

Representing the coming of spring where flowers begin to bloom bee's come out to play and little critters enjoy the new bloom of spring. 

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Exploring Textures

This little guy was created with chalk textures giving a chalk board feel to it. Fun Little photoshop experiment. 

Digital Sketching

I always have such a hard time sketching in digital format just something about it restricts my hand from drawing the way their use to. But I am determined to change my ways and skillfully master digital sketching. Here's a little sketch I did tonight.

A fashionable lady in her fuzzy fur vest. 

Some Treats

Trick or Treat a fun little sketch for Halloween, wish I had time to render this. Adding to the to do list.

I bought gold ink for silkscreen and was very excited to try it out. This being a test print turned out more yellow than expect. I'll keep testing it. 

Terrarium Birds

Just Love Terrarium why not add beautiful birds in them as well! This also part to a kitchen product collection I created as well which can be see here 

Lost Little Fox

A quick little watercolor of a little fox lost in the spooky forest. When I get the chance I would love to bring this little guy into photoshop =) 

Silkscreen Printing

Learning a new media is always fun. I've challenged myself to learn the ways of silkscreen. It's a multi- process media with many separations, double checking and of course manual labor. But the process is fun from concept to final. Here's my process of my 1st silkscreen print.

Thumbnail

Master copy -in silkscreen this image is your guide making sure everything on your print line's up. 

Master copy in hand and screen separations ready to be printed. Excuse the messy work space. =)

About half way here. 

My final print 

I started off with 20 and some got lost, ruined and mistakes happen easily. So my final count was about 11 good ones. Silkscreen is a very time consuming media but the outcome is amazing and as the artist I feel connected to each piece. 

Thank you for reading, enjoy your sunday everyone !

Church Poster

Just got ask to do this today. It was actually pretty fun and I like the final look. Great look for a church poster it would sure get my attention. And client loved it which is always a plus. Also a great way to re-use little vector files I created for such a short notice project.

A little Something for October

Website is Up

I finally have a website! For me personally I feel a website is always a work in progress. I will keep updating new work. But for now this is what I have =)

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Silkscreen Fun

This semester I'm finally taking silkscreen a technique I've been dying to learn. It very challenging but the outcome you can get is just beautiful. For our 1st project we could design anything we want with the teachers approval of course. I decided on my child of the woods thumbnail. Here is my process from thumbnail to clean up line work and finally my finished illustration. Now the fun begins separating each layer.

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Handsome Pup in Bow Ties

Chihuahua's in bow ties what's cute than that ?  This lovely little pattern is based off our own little man Samson. This pattern also comes in blue bow ties as well. I see this become just the cutest blouse for any dog loving gal. 

Thanks for viewing have a great week ! 

Sketchbook Shares

Just a few sketches from my handy dandy sketchbook. 

National Dog Day

In celebration of National dog day I decide to make a cute decorative custom portrait of all my dogs. 

I first start off with a clean sketch and bring that into photoshop. 

In photoshop the lasso tool is your best friend for fast clean shapes. I block out all the shapes and build on top of that. 

Details can then be added on top of those solid shapes. 

One of my scruffy models Skipper my poodle. 

Minnie the other poodle 

Samson the tuff chihuahua 

Waffle my goofy dachshund.  

And finally sweet maggie girl the Rottweiler. 

New Items to the shop

Added some new Illustrations and fun patterns to my shop on society 6. Take a look http://society6.com/SmartinezArt and it's finally friday have a great one everyone !

Loving the look of Illustration to final product it's so rewarding.

August is full of Patterns

A well deserved update is needed. August has been a very busy month with moving and working  there is never enough time. But I manage to sneak some sketches in =) 

Working at Anthropologie I'm obsessed and inspired with patterns on dresses, stationary, shoes and kitchen ware. (Pretty much anything!) I made two little pattern sketches with a mixed media I'm exploring. Nothing to fancy just ink on top of gouache. Love the outcome to it.

Finch Tweets 

Carnation Garden

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Woodland Slumber

Woodland Slumber is a series of sleeping woodland critters. These are the preliminary sketches still deciding on what media to use digital or traditional.

Sketching day in SF

Went exploring around the city for a day of sketching and we decided on Japan town. Very relaxing and calm place to sketch. We even had a man play a flute while sketching it was perfect. I lately have been focusing on simplifying my illustrations and making it more decorative. Watercolor and ink are a very neat combination.