Cowgirl vs Native American!

Girls Staring at TV

This took for~ever~!

12" by 18", watercolor on paper.

baby portraits!!!!

I know how this looks.....I am not baby crazy.

But for some reason I'm just way better at drawing/painting children, hence choosing the career of a children's book illustrator.

BIG Thanks to MUTIA and her wonderful friends, letting me paint their babies! They sent me a couple pictures. So I chose the ones I liked best, and painted the babies in backgrounds I found suitable (to their body gesture and lighting).

I did these paintings just to see if I can. And during which, I revisited the joy of just painting. I love illustrating, and as you can see I cannot stop adding illustrative elements here and there. But sometimes it is so fun to just paint with little or no planning! So there you go, hopefully one day I'll have a side career as a baby portrait painter ;)

Kinda wish I painted her as a giant baby smashing a city.

I touched it up a bit and redid the background.

Fishing with Gummies!

There goes another semester, I've learned a lot. Unfortunately, this is the only piece I want to put in my portfolio. hope you all like it!

(Most of my class assignments are not suitable for my portfolio, though I have developed a liking in painting children portraits. Thats maybe something to consider as a side job down the road.)

Anyways, I did this completely in acrylic, instead of watercolor. I wanted to see if I can do it. the colors can be more vibrant, but I wan't able use the lift of technique after the paint dries. The result is not very different in my opinion. but maybe one day, i can paint looser and faster in watercolor and fix things in acrylic?

I'm not sure yet, we'll see.......

STA-BE-WEE?

u like sta-be-wee?

acrylics!

Sarafina w/wig!

These 2 I've painted them w/ acrylic on watercolor paper

looks just like watercolor in my opinion. Kazu keep suggesting me to invest in soft body acrylics, because the colors are more intense. I think i'm happy with watered down heavy body. it feels more consistent with my watercolor portfolio. Who knows, one day when i have $$ to spare and more time to play, I'll get a bunch of soft body acrylics. For now, I rather save some money........

Acrylic figure painting

"Isabel"
*i swear to god its not me, we have an amazing model with the school named Isabel, she looks like me and also has long straight hair and seems to have the same body type.*

"Old Fishermen"

"Pressure"

"A Passion for Passion"

the evil angels in annabell lee

Annabel lee by Edgar Allan Poe

i wanted to use fat baby angels at first to add to the irony of cupids being envious of love. but kazu said the poem mentioned "seraphs" not cupids..............oh well, here's the result :)

Check it out!

look look look! my website is finally presentable and representable! thanks to my wonderful boyfriend Todd.

My Official website: http://isabellakung.com/

magazine cover w/ shirley temple!

watercolor and charcoal~

More Watercolor stuff!

Sorry peeps, I know its been awhile since I last updated any work. I've just been very busy with my free lance job. Also the 11 by 17 scanner was out of order during the break. So now I present to you:

"Under the Bed"


"On Top of Spaghetti"

Girls play dress up!

I know it's been awhile.....But I have been concentrating on my children's book
I've have other new pieces, and this is my favorite one, I will upload the rest during break.....I hope.

Modified.....

Plein Air Watercolor Finals!!

I know it's been a while since I last posted....
I've just been exhausted trying to balance school, a part-time job and a children's book illustration gig.......which of course is under "confidentiality agreement".

Anyhoo, here are the two pieces I've been working on for my watercolor class:
(both about 14' by 20', watercolor)

this one literally drove me insane! I don't think I'll be doing something as "patterny" anytime soon. I referenced it from a picture I took from the SF zoo. I might touch up the moss at the back.

Got to say....one of my most proud piece yet....I had fun painting it too. If only i had nothing else to do but paint whenever I want...... the reference picture was taken at the farmer's market at the Ferry Building. I still have the tubal-wear and a box of peaches left to do....

I think this is the first time I handed in work "incomplete". The more I do watercolor, it seems the less i have a good estimation on how much time I spend on it.... Maybe I never painted something as complicated and as large as this....or maybe I'm just tired all the time....or my OCD is getting worse....

Plein Air Watercolor class (summer 09)