Celebration

Birthday Illustration inspired by the little people in my family. I seem to have a lot of friends and family members that have birthdays this month.

Happy Birthday to all of you!

Buffet-Illustration Competition

The Italian Organization Tapirulan is proposing an Illustration Competition with the theme Buffet. I was very excited to participate with my digital piece All you can eat-Buffet. The winners will be announced in the middle of Nov, which gives people a lots of time to look at the submissions and comment it. I would appreciate any comments for my illustration ! Thank you!

The Season of Flowers

Every day I go to work to South Surrey I get to see these beautiful irises at a corner of a street, now about to lose their fragile petals and life because of the heavy rain drops. It was a great inspiration for me to make the piece below, as a wedding present for a friend. The Bird of Paradise flower is just mesmerizing to look at!

Flowers for a good cause

Recent works on 8"x10" cardboard, with paper collage  and watercolours for a fundraiser hosted by Surrey Hospice Society in June 2012.  My works will be auctioned to raise money to help others. More information here.

Wood Ducks

There are so many things I did with paper, but never tried a realistic collage. Will definitely cheer up my wall!

Character Design

Characters from my sketchbook.

Terracotta Warrior!

I just finished painting one of the fibreglass sculptures for BC Lions Society, for their Terracotta Warriors Project. I am very proud of the result and cannot wait to be displayed on the streets. Promise to post pictures as soon the projects are exhibited. This is a little preview...

Among Words!

This is a cover design that I made for an Anthology of Children Literature, published in Romania. It's called "Among Words" and includes fiction and poetry written by children between grade 2 and 8. I had a lot of fun with this project.

I won a contest!

My Snow Feathers design is the winner of the Art Council of Surrey Christmas Card Competition 2011.
I'm glad I participated!

Vector Illustration

The ideas behind these illustrations came to me while taking the bus to work: 25 minutes of real inspiration!

The girl with the umbrella

I finished a couple of weeks ago these illustrations for one of my stories called "The girl with the umbrella".






Acrylic and pencil on canvas

My sketchbook

Unlucky illustrations!

Join us under the yellow umbrella!

I've just finished recently painting an umbrella for CDFBC organization for a noble cause, raising many for children with developmental disabilities. It was such a pleasure and so much fun to paint this object, like my canvas was a flower ready to open. Bees, birds and butterfly fly away and spread the news!

The most beautiful animal

Check out my etsy shop and don't hesitate to ask me questions: www.etsy.com/shop/silvanamaria

Sea explorer

Wouldn't be cool to explore the sea while driving an ice cream submarine?

Character Illustration

The simple road from a sketch to a cartoon character!