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Kitty!


I love my kitty, Mia.

Here she is playing in the sun. Except she's an indoor kitty- sorry Mia.

NY Sketches!!


Went to NY for the first time. I met inspiring wonderful people. Went to museums (I saw my first Sargent and broke down to tears, it was so beautiful).

We walked everywhere. I think that's my favorite part. It was so refreshing to see people everywhere.  The city was full of life and everywhere you went there were people creating things, moving things and living. Just living.
It's so unlike Los Angeles I immediately fell in love with it. I became spoiled. So many readily available things just a few blocks away. If I get the chance to, I will definitely move to the Big Apple.

PS. I GOT TO GO DO YOU'VE GOT MAIL THINGS. Yuss!
 


By the way, don't forget to check out my website at http://mariakvitan.com/


Eat Your Art Out Show!

Gonna Need A Bigger Gun. 
16x20 Digital Painting

A piece made for the Angel City Derby Girl’s Eat Your Art Out show.

Some people say it looks like a more adult version of Power Puff Girls! 
Thank you to those who put their name down for the silent bidding. I hope the man who bought it will treat it right. :)

She'll Be Fighting For Her Own Hand


Brave Tribute.
Screw the mom-daughter relationship, I loved her because she speaks for mind. 

She's my kind of gal. 

Photography Blog!

Hello Everyone!

I have started a Photography Blog! Please come and check it out as I've been having so much fun with it lately. 
Here are some examples from my blog. 




Powerrring Through Bolivia!

I love Top Gear so much! 

Powerrrr!


These sketches were from a trip in San Francisco, CA. 

The woman on the left is an Italian woman we sat next to at House of Nanking in Chinatown, SF. She was there visiting a friend of hers who was studying in SF. 
 They had blooming flower teas which made sitting in a very crowded room bearable.  
A friend of mine said that the meaner the staff in a Chinese restaurant, the better the food. Not really in this case. From a previous experience, this was just okay. Maybe because I was also so bloated when we sat down. 

This one is a sketch from my bf's mom's garden. On Christmas day. After I had some tamales. 

Panera Boys

These guys.

I was in line at Panera yesterday for lunch and these guys are in front of me. The one on the left ignored me when I asked him a question and the rest were too busy. All of them had long jackets.

They were too cool for school. 

Reddit Secret Santa Pt 2!

Here is an illustration I made for my Reddit Secret Santa. As a Dr Who fan, I was more than happy to make something special for another Dr Who fan. 


10 Min Doodle Break

Hello friends!

Work gets too monotonous sometimes. 
Oh yeah, it's still winter and snowy inside my brain. 

PS! I also got a tumblr! Check it out here!

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays friends! Hope you have a good one. I'm very thankful for 2012 as many good things happened this year. I graduated, for example!

I hope 2013 brings in more joy! 


Vietnam

I've been watching a lot of Top Gear lately and even though I'm not a car person, it's still one of the best shows out there. This one is inspired by one of their best special episodes where they traveled through Vietnam in motorcycles and in Jeremy's case, a scooter. 

I never had any inkling to go to Vietnam until that episode. But now, I can't wait to visit it. 



Reddit Secret Santa!!


To my Reddit Secret Santa: I couldn't wait til Christmas so I opened it.
 Thank you very much! You've made my day a little brighter and my neighbors a bit more annoyed! You are a wonderful person!

Thank you. :)

Rainy 134 Fwy

It's rainy and the clouds were low. Gorgeous day for driving and listening to Ashanti and Ja Rule. 


Some Sketches


Just a couple of sketches from the weekend! 


Thanksgiving Movie of the Night: Hunger Games

Watching Hunger Games with my mom after the dinner is very entertaining. She actually gasps, is genuinely surprised and sad about the scenes in the movie. When Rue died, she really cried.

Anyway, it's just so refreshing watching a movie with a real audience who won't decompose a movie like art students do.

First iPad painting! It's The Girl On Fire.



Birds

Just a little fun painting. 

Eagle Rock Sky Study

I like to go out around my neighborhood to just hang out outside my house, watch kids playing and paint. 

This one was done in one afternoon and while they're both really rough, it was done as studies. 

I love those mountains so much. 

3 Paintings!

Here are some paintings I did just for fun. Boy, these were really fun. 



This one was done on a camping trip with friends and I had a dog poo right next to where I'm sitting. 

Olly, it smelled bad, but it's ok, I had a laugh.


Gouache, I love our love and hate relationship. 
-Sincerely, my sanity. 

Hiking

It's those times when you're walking and the trees open up and the world presents itself to you.