This piece was created for Visual Art 2: 2D/3D Design and was created using objects from junk drawers, garages, and the art room.

This piece was created for Visual Art 2: 2D/3D Design and was created using objects from junk drawers, garages, and the art room.

Ba Ngoai and Nonna

Both names mean grandmother but in two different languages. I am always in awe as I watch my Vietnamese grandmother interact with my Italian grandmother during the holidays. Ba ngoai doesn’t speak or understand much English while Nonna understands and speaks most English. They sit up close by each other and try to communicate, not always through words, but through their gestures and smiles. It reminds me that one’s presence can speak a thousand words.

This painting is illustrates the hectic environment of an Asian seafood market where the display of animals to be bought is very different than that in a typical American setting.

Summer’s almost here!

Drawing made with colored pencil highlighting the movement of koi fish and the water.

A redraw of the cover image for “Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.”