More pictures at the sneak peek Multiply album.
Notes to come, kind of sleepy. Miamor is currently undergoing tweaking, please excuse the mess.

by Mia on 7:16 pm, May 18, 2008 in projects, visuals none spoke

Gift for my mother. A bag charm in pearl, abalone, crystal, glass, and silver wire.
Notes: Helloooo huge jump rings! I’ll probably buy more — sterling silver ones this time — when I move on to making bracelets. I used white and purple freshwater pearls strung on silver wire (the rings the pearls are hanging on […]

by Mia on 12:30 am, in projects, visuals none spoke

Acrylic on illustration board. First in a series featuring short poems or snippets of poems.
Is it true that the meteor
was a dove of amethyst? (Pablo Neruda)
I did it tonight in a rare burst of energy. The baselines are tilted and I really wish I could re-do the placement, but it still makes me smile. It […]

by Mia on 9:37 pm, May 16, 2008 in visuals none spoke

by Mia on 11:52 pm, May 6, 2008 in potpourri, visuals (1) spoke

Working on layouts for Diwa and Likhain @ Multiply. Diwa is giving me headaches, since I’ll have to learn yet another way to skin a cat– er, the site, or at least the online shop part of it. I don’t really want to use ready-made templates.
Also, I have to work on the site structure…! Rargh.
And […]

by Mia on 3:04 pm, April 19, 2008 in projects, visuals (2) spoke

I finally finished the inking (which was begun a few months ago — yet another result of insomnia and ennui — then totally neglected and recently taken up again). Now I have to clean up the image (both the sketchbook image and the scanned version) and figure out how to color it.
I did Murasaki on […]

by Mia on 4:54 pm, November 11, 2007 in visuals (1) spoke

(how can hothouse flowers bloom in an afternoon salon?)

Click the image for the full painting. I also posted the inked version some time ago.
She is a little twilight sparrow!
I planned a pale yellow/gray/blue color scheme for this, with some abstract patterns in magenta for accents. And then — and then it got way out of […]

by Mia on 10:16 pm, November 8, 2007 in visuals (1) spoke

Initial concept: fluffy parody of ridiculously thin and long-necked girls with stylized faces and pouty lips, sitting pretty in gorgeous lacy dresses. It just so happened that I had exams this week, and I get obsessed with detail whenever I’m stressed.
And wings! Well, black wings make everything better!
Ink on watercolor paper. Click the picture to […]

by Mia on 11:41 pm, October 16, 2007 in visuals none spoke

So let’s talk about how Mia is a glutton for punishment.

I meant to do a fluffy piece to poke fun at the absurdly long-necked, stick-thin stylized pretty girls so popular in some online art communities. Some basic inks and contrasts, then watercolor. I was going to add lace to the skirts when I thought, […]

by Mia on 5:57 pm, October 14, 2007 in visuals none spoke

I love it when ideas just come and you’re able to express them before the moment disappears. It’s a little weird if the “moment” arrives just as you’re climbing into bed, but then again I think it’s a good thing I managed to stand up and get art stuff before I closed my eyes.

A watercolor […]

by Mia on 2:03 am, September 19, 2007 in visuals (2) spoke