Anra Scholarship Submissions

Thanks to everyone who has submitted work so far, there are 2 weeks remaining for those still working on their pieces. We're going to need some help judging the artwork and if you'd like to help out, email me so I can contact you when the time comes.


Nawal age 13


Tori age 13


Monica age 17


Click here to see all the entries.

Percy's Unlucky Day

I won't be posting full images of the next half of my upcoming show like I've been doing but I can show you which orphan I'm working on next.


Percy doesn't know it yet, but she will be catching an unavoidable childhood illness.


Her little lip.

Sketch Theatre

I filmed my first drawing with Sketch Theatre last week. I drew an octopus girl and her pet squid. Click here for full res.



P.S. Add my and Tiffany's youtube page if you have an account!

Allison Up For Adoption

Its been a while since I did a drawing and since I just finished Chelsea, I'm going to take some time to draw tonight before starting my next painting.

Since June was adopted from my Etsy store this morning, Allison now gets a chance. Click here to visit her at my shop.


Allison

Click on any thumbnail to go to my shop!

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade anabagayan.etsy.com

Anra Scholarship Deadline Extended!

Since the good folks at Arrested Motion posted our scholarship, we've decided to extend the deadline to December 15, 2009 for entries! If you're hearing about this for the first time, you can find more info on it here.

I've moved my website's shop to Etsy and I have put up a new print of "Unexpecting" for sale along with a few other items and one original drawing. To visit my shop click here.


Image Size 7 x 10 inches plus 1 inch border
Archival Ink on Velvet Fine Art Paper
Limited Edition of 100
Signed and Numbered
$75

Anra Scholarship Entries

We've gotten some amazing new entries for the scholarship contest!


'Dream of Vampire' - Arina age 13


'Floating City' - Brian age 12


'Flight with Penguin' - Nihal age 14



'Candy Land' - Tiffany age 13

While You Were Sleeping

***Edited 11/25 (by ana)*** I'm done! Ara's picture is more true to color, I don't know why I desaturated this so.



***End Edit***

Ana hasn't slept for two days working on Chelsea, below. She's asleep now, so I've posted a sneak peak of the painting in progress:

Chelsea

I've been working on Chelsea this past week. This one has been more challenging than the others for some reason. I've had a lot of trouble with the shape of the eyes. Each one is 2 inches! The blue background is water.


Cell phone picture :( If only I had an iphone...


The original drawing of Chelsea.


My palette taken by our studio mate, Hiroshi Endo.


Photo of Sushi also taken by Hiroshi.

Little Ones

Cleo


Georgie


Phillip

Mildred Animated

I made a process animation for the painting of Mildred! ^_^
If only I had a bigger scanner, I could animate all of my paintings.


Ghost of the Fireflies
8 x 10"
Oil on Wood

Anra takes on San Francisco

I was called upon to do some freelance animation work in San Francisco for a couple weeks, so Ana and I packed our things and headed north where friend and fellow designer Steve Neumann graciously took us in for the long haul.













Courtesy of Cheeseburger & Friends. Thanks also to Hovin Wang for letting us stay with him for a night.

From my sketchbook

Ara is planning a big picture post of our trip! In the meantime, here are a couple sketches I did in Yosemite last week.


Possible cut-outs.


Lumi

SF -> Yosemite -> Fresno

After a short break from the city in Yosemite, we are now in Fresno for a week. I've been able to do some drawings and have another oil portrait on the way. I'm saving the progress shots for another post.

I've also been working some more sketches for my cut-outs that I posted about a few months ago. They were previously going to be in my show at Billy Shire in March, but since they no longer fit the theme of my show, I'm going to save them for a separate group show Lola asked me to be in on March 7th at Copro Nason during her solo show.

Last Weekend in SF

Ara pulling me out of a basketball game, photo by Stephanie



This is our last weekend in San Francisco. We've been lucky enough to have good weather for two weeks. Unfortunately for APE, it started raining heavily today.

We picked up some goodies today though. My favorites are two little books from Esther Pearl Watson. I was missing one in her 'Unloveable' series and I picked up 'Romeo and Juliet.' I also love this little Mario Ghost magnet that is "Made by Amy." There is no contact info on it, so I don't know how to look her up.





Huge whiskey shots with a splash of Coke.


Just kidding, this is really what we've been doing for two weeks.

*If you've ordered our postcard set or greeting card in the last two weeks, they will be shipped when I return to Los Angeles on November 10th.