February 21st:
This is the sketch on page 28 of my Cut-Up Sketchbook. On February 21st I just did a bit of x-acto knife work on the page cutting out the portholes that had no yellow in them. The portholes with the yellow were already cut out back when I cut out the portholes on page 27.
February 20th:
I colored the creatures in the holes on page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
February 19th:
I drew a couple more characters peering from the ovals on page 25.
A bit of background here: The ovals on this page are traced from the cut-outs on page 26. There's a previously existing sketch on pages 27-28 that I already have a plan for, so I cut out the spaces that I wanted removed from page 27 (and consequently page 26, since it and 27 are the front and back sides of a single page) awhile back to ensure that my work on pages 24, 25, and 26 would support my plans for the 27-28 spread rather than conflicting with them.
February 18th:
I started some real work on page 25. The Valentine's Day hearts were just something that I drew on the page because I wanted someplace to draw hearts and they seemed to work with the Phoenix cut-out. These illustrations were more premeditated.
February 17th:
I decided that I wanted to pattern all of the mountains after all, but I tried not to make it too busy. Page 24 is unofficially done.
February 16th:
I couldn't decide whether I wanted to pattern all of the mountains or just a couple, so I did the little one next.
February 15th:
I decided to add a bit more interest to this scene by means of patterns on the mountainsides. It was a bit too tedious to do more than one pattern at a time, but I'm thrilled with the outcome.
February 14th:
A few hearts for Valentine's Day on page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
February 13th:
A quick wash of watercolor on page 24.
February 10th:
I got a week or two behind on posting my Daily Art, so I spent some time on the tenth of February organizing my artwork for 2015. I created a calendar set-up for the year in InDesign with the intention of posting images of my Daily Art in the corresponding cell for each day. I may even turn it into a real calendar for next year: images of my previous year's work to motivate me to create something every day next year.
Unfortunately, within an hour of finishing this - before I even got a chance to catch up on posting the images that I organized - I came down with the worst stomach flu I've had since I was a child and, consequently, didn't produce a single piece of artwork for the next two days.
February 9th:
Just a wee bit of work on page 24 today.
February 8th:
It was a gorgeous day in Santa Barbara. My nephew and his friends found shark eggs attached to some kelp washed up onto the beach, and I snapped this photograph and a bunch more like it to make a new collage (eventually).
February 7th:
Those steaming vents that I started drawing on page 24: volcanos!
February 6th:
The beginnings of a sketch for a Valentine's Day image. In the end I wasn't happy enough with this beginning to go any further with this drawing.
February 5th:
I added a tree, an egg, and a fern to page 24.
February 4th:
A bit more work on page 24.
February 3rd:
Now this illustration is done. I finished refining the clouds and the sky colors.
February 2nd:
I started page 24 of my Cut-Up Sketchbook.
February 1st:
I refined the color of some of the areas of my Birds Over A City illustration and colored the character design of my next model.
"Calendar" image of Daily Art created in January.
(Note: This image was actually created in February, but since I'm posting late I'm putting it here at the end of the month where it should go anyway.)