Brought to Life

I had previously posted the outline to the DECOMPOSED drawing I started. Now it's finished! 

It is mostly black india ink with some light washes of gouache and colored pencil. I'm just not sure how long I want to keep drawing small, detailed art; I feel like it'd be a breath of fresh air to paint something large and unexplainable. One day.

Window of Opportunity

 Regardless of what day it is, how things turn out, etc. I am always looking forward to the next opportunity, whatever that may be...

Quilt my best friends made for my b-day last year (love you guys!)

Close up of embroidered chameleon 

Finally decided to snow

First scientific skin done (shall call him Sir Red Squirrel)! More taxidermy to come, yessss!!! 

Window sill fun

Ruffed Grouse Scientific skin

This makes me smile :)

Valentines day should be about loving your life, not necessarily whether or not you find a single individual to love 

(and the only day you're allowed to be sappy)

Craft-hard this week please

Be productive...be productive...be productive....

Taste of Incense

So weird, I was just about mentally set for my first vacation in three months...finishing up homework. Then suddenly with each exhaled breath, an aromatic cloud came from my lungs, and I could taste the smell of burning incense, the ones that my grandfather would use every morning and evening to give blessings to the Daoist deities... 

Either something really spooky just happened, or I just swallowed some soap 

while I was drinking from my cup....

This calls for a montage of beautifully strange things and places,

 it's nice to reminisce when you're always cooped up at college.

Elizabethan Gardens and apparently the site of the Lost Roanoke Colony, NC

Mountain village overlooking the ocean- Jiufen, Taiwan

Old man cactus (Cephalocereus senilis)- Longwood Gardens, PA

??? I forgot what this was- Longwood Gardens, PA

Kenting Youth Center overlooking the ocean- Kenting, Taiwan

Alishan Cypress Forest- Chiayi, Taiwan

Zuoying Lotus Lake- Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Broken down Japanese railroad bridge- Maoli, Taiwan

Jin gua shi old gold and silver mine and some random Japanese prince's vacation spot- Taiwan

One of the microscopic Penghu Islands, Taiwan

A small contribution for our stay on the island- Penghu, Taiwan

Coral walls and houses- Penghu, Taiwan

Bald cypress poking out in a mangrove forest, FL 

jelly invasion on Brighton beach- Brooklyn, NY

lonesome car, AZ

sweaty, tired, and....worth iiiiit- Arches Nat'l Park, UT

veil of rain- UT

light shaft- Antelope Canyon, AZ

Antelope Canyon, AZ

...photos taken over the last two years by me...