2 small paintings in progress

I'm working on 2 small paintings, aiming to use all my available material while I'm still at my parents house, I think I'll be moving to the USA next year, so I want to make sure I don't leave here anything unused that will just cause a big mess (in case that mom wants to use the room for rent or just if she wants to enter and clean it )

I'm overcoming lots of fears with this works, they look so simple, but the progress has been hard and I try not to go down everytime I know I need a break from them. But I like them, because of what they're teaching to me, like patience, planning and that "wtf? I'm changing this because I want it to be different!" feeling.  And i feel free.

The one at the right started with a different, more childlish kind of face, I elongated it and worked with a more soft-kinda realistic touch. I'm getting inspired by Soey Milk 's paintings,  she's my biggest inspiration as for today, I know I hugely feel inspired by women like Audrey Kawasaki, Karla Ortiz, Jel Ena, Stella Im Hultberg, Alice Savage and a huge list of incredible artists I follow. Including my best friends Tamisery , Piquipauparro , Bee-chan  who inspire me, not only with their art, but with their lives as well.
I would love to be half as incredible as they all are, and all the amazing artists I follow on all the social networks I'm in.

I'm working and redesigning my life to finally be where I'd love to be. It's been a long process, and I was even awarded with the most incredible husband and lots of friends, I can say that all I went through was worth it.  So, on to keep working =)

Thanks for reading (if you're not just a spam reference site =|)

Dianita

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Current Painting

This is the current stage of a big painting I'm making. I'm finally happy with her features and the horses, but as I changed it a bit, compared to the original sketch, I'm sorting out options to unify her hair and the horses coming out of it.  Colors are locked, just this tiny details missing and then to finish it.  I wish I had ArtResin to seal it up, I would love to see it with that beautiful glow.

I hope I can find her a home, I would't want to take her with me to the USA next year, it is bigger than my usual works =|

Thank you for reading! Have a great start of the week!


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Esta es la etapa actual en que se encuentra la pintura que estoy haciendo. Finalmente estoy feliz con su look y con los caballos, pero como cambié el diseño final a como estaba en el boceto a lápiz, aún necesito estudiar opciones para unificar la sección donde los caballos emergen de su cabello. Los colores ya están bloqueados, solo faltan un par de detalles y listo, a darle los últimos toques y terminarla. Ojala tuviera a mi alcance ArtResin para usar como sellador, me encantaría ver esta pintura brillante con esa capa de resina.


Espero que pueda encontrarle hogar, no me gustaría tener que llevarla a Estados Unidos el próximo año, es más grande que mis trabajos usuales.


Gracias por leer mi blog, que tengan un muy buen inicio de semana !


Dianita.

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New painting for Sev Ven´s show "Love, Sex, Magic"

"Forbidden"
Acrylics and Oils on wood.
12" x 7" aprox.
August 2013

Available
For purchase info, contact gallerysevven@gmail.com . Ask for their payment plans ;)


My painting for Gallery Sev Ven's show "Love, Sex, Magic". Highly inspired by Charmaine Olivia's beautiful paintings and Soey Milk's paintings too.  =)

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"Solitude" Pencil Drawing

Finished her a few days ago, but haven't had the time to scan and post her til now

"Solitude"
Graphite on Paper
5.5" x 8.5" (approx)
2013

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Nature Ladies Series now on Etsy

Finally, my little girls are up and waiting for a new home =)

They are lovely small drawings with an approximate meassure of 5 7/8 in x 8.5 in  (15 cm x 21.6cm) made with Staedtler fineliners, Sakura Pigma Brush, Hybrid Metallic Gel Pen on Strathmore Mixed Media paper.  I made around 15 sketches, and I'm just uploading the ones I've finished already for you to check them out.

Please, visit my Etsy Store  to see them and my other available drawings! Or click on each one to check their individual pages. Of course, the scanned image is not how they really look =(  it ate the quality =(

This following 2 are already on hold <3

Thank you so much for watching!
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Have a wonderful day!

Finished ACEOs/ ACEOs terminados

"Beauty and Pain"  and "Hope"  ACEOs are now ready to go to their new home =)
They're already SOLD.

Image taken from my Instagram  (dianita_art) 

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Ambos ACEOs por fin estan listos para ir a su nuevo hogar, los 2 estan vendidos.
Imagen tomada desde mi Instagram, disculpen la censura!
Gracias por su visita!

Drawings for a local convention this weekend

Good morning <3

Soooo, faithful to my work routine, I completely forgot about this convention hehehe  I just came back from Az a month ago and well, the last thing in my mind was to prepare for this Con =|

But I'm doing well, I'm having fun preparing some drawings to take with me, it's been a while since I worked with pens, and I'd like to think that with all the practice I've been having with semi-realistic drawings I've been able to work faster on this manga-style ladies =)

I would like to make from 15 to 20, but with the time I have left, it's going to be a miracle if I get to finish 10 hehehe. I still have half day today and the whole friday to make this work =)  I already have the sketches for the 4th and the 5th ladies and hopefully will finish 3-4 more today. If I get to have 8 by the time I leave for a movie tonight ^^

I will have this ladies for sale next week =)

Thanks for reading,
Have a lovely day
Dianita

Nearly finished ACEO card

After 3 weeks I'm finally being able to work on this lady of the first 4 ACEO's I planned to make. This Lady is part of the "Inner Secrets" serie I'm developing.  She's still keeping some secret from me, but she's now speaking clearer than she used to, it is just matter of time for her to let me know something else <3

She's already on hold, but other girls (ACEO sized and bigger drawings) are available on my etsy store <3 

Thank you for reading, have a wonderful day!

Dianita

Feedback from a buyer from Canada

I received the most artistic-self-stem booster a few days ago from a buyer that purchased a little drawing bundle I was offering on etsy. 4 Miniatures that found their way to Canada =)  

This were the words from the buyer:

"My girls arrived today and they are all just so lovely Dianita. Thanks so much for letting me adopt these very special original drawings, I am awed by your talent, and you are just the biggest sweetheart ever. So kind and quick with communications, everything shipped with care and arrived so quickly too. Now off to the framers to sort out their permanent homes. Thanks again for being such a wonderful artist, person, and having a great Etsy shop!"

It is always wonderful to read what other people say about your work, I've made artwork for friends and I keep their excitement and comments on my heart.  And it is kind of educational for some members of my family too...

I'm very very happy to be able to share my work with so many countries in this world. My ponies have gone as far as Australia, Germany, UK, Italy, soon also to Finland. But now some of my current drawings are also going to other countries, starting with Canada and some also staying in Mexico and in the USA.

Very happy even if I'm also very sad for having to go back to Mexico for some months again. 

Have a wonderful day everybody
Dianita

First Custom Zombie Ponies for 2013

 " Fear Song"
April 2013
Available ($90 + shipping)
If interested, please contact me through my FB page Dianita's Art

Featuring "Perfect Peach" Nylon from Retro Dolls US

"Deadly Secret"

April 2013

ON HOLD
Featuring "Bubblegum" from Retro Dolls US

New art in the making, ACEO size

This is a new ACEO I made, will be available either on my Etsy Store or my Bigcartel one, still deciding =)  Happy to be practicing a bit more of shading and expressions, I looove working with pencils <3

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Sadly this are my last 23 days in Tucson, not sure for how long =(  I'm trying not to go down and keep drawing, this time I can spend visiting my hubby is battery charging for me to go back to the messy life I live with back at Mexico.  But it's a good time to learn that I can live blocking all stress and focus on work if I focus enough =)  I might take a week and a half break when I go back due some social stuff and to get used to fight for my bed against Kitty when I'm back at my parent's house... =|

Today I got outside to spray sealant on some drawings,  got absorbed by the lovely weather, sunny but not hot, windy but not cold. A perfect weather for me to get teary eyes and to know I'll be missing the desert more then I thought...  Who knew?  I just don't feel happy to go back to a humid weather and less when I will be arriving at the start of the hottest season of the year...  Lovely 45 degrees (Celsius) feeling like 50 or perhaps more...  But that's the easiest of my worries...

Art will be work and therapy at the same time...

How I would love to learn to make a small pallet house at my piece of land where I can spend the day drawing without worries xD  Might have to save for it and learn some basic building stuff =P

Well... until I leave, I'll enjoy my time here, it is so incredible to be blessed with my husband and an incredible life changing experience that has been visiting this country 2 times by now.

Have a wonderful wonderful evening everybody

Love
Dianita

Good Thoughts - Finished Art

I finally finished this lady!



"Good Thoughts"
Pencil on Paper (acid free 190gr/m2)
5.5" x 8.5"

Got a bit rush of inspiration by discovering the works of Fuyuko Matsui. Playing with concepts and trying to add something a bit meaningful instead of just working on a lovely nude lady. I just wish that the scanner could have got the texture right, this is too sharp, the original is softer looking.

Also, I lost a bit the fear of drawing a different nose, this one reminds me to my own hehehe, I spend too much time critiquing my nose, I know. So I wanted to give this girl a more "non-perfect" look to her nose (<-for hollywood standards).

I like to work with this weird ideas
=)

Thanks for looking
Have a wonderful evening
Diana

Lady with Cat

"Lady with Cat"

8.5" x 11"

Pencil on Acid free paper

For sale on my Etsy Store
https://www.etsy.com/listing/125131153/lady-with-cat-original-pencil-drawing-85?

I love to draw hair like that <3 

I'm under the big influence of Gabriel Moreno's art, Stella Im Hultberg and Alice Savage <3

New Painting =)

Quickie just to post my new painting and first officially framed painting ever =)

Graphite and acrylics on watercolor paper. 12" x 12"

Still unnamed and sadly I forgot to scan it   duh for me ....  

Hubby raised his hands when I was thinking on selling her when I go back home, he wanted it to be ours and now this lovely painting is living with us from now on

We'll see if we can scan it and upload the pic without the glass, it looks so cute that I don't want to mess with the back T.T

Well, that's it for now, I believe I will write when I go back to Mexico in a couple of weeks
See you then! have a wonderful week

Love
Diana

"Mildred"
Pencil on antique looking paper

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