Painting in Central Park, NYC

Here I am,  sketching in the Turtle Pond, Central Park NYC

I've always enjoyed painting outdoors especially during my travels and
I actually have a portable studio which I can easily carry with me wherever I go.
I found this artist traveling bag which holds a lot of things

 like brushes, watercolor pencils, mini sketch pad, etc:

Below is the artist travel pouch which I can tie around my waist and

inside this artist travel pouch are some tools and materials below:

Another view of the my artist travel pouch with some mini-sketch pad and watercolor papers:

Here is my favorite tool: a brush that you can put water inside
( no need to dip in water anymore)
I found this brush while traveling to Tokyo, Japan, but
some art stores now in th US carries them. 

Here is a really small and cute but handy material I have, the size of a business card:
A mini colored pencil case with its own miniature sharpener:

At the Turtle Pond, Central Park NYC

 Madonna Davidoff with their paintings

created in Turtle Pond, Central Park NYC

and below is my painting entitled" Little Girl in Central Park"

I used watercolor pencils and colored pencils to create this:

© Madonna Davidoff    

MondayArtday theme: MadTea Party

by Maria Madonna Davidoff

Very early just before dawn
a fairy appeared to have a tea party with me.

This is another painting for my Fairy Series which
you can view in my blog.

Still Winter & What I am Working on Now

Yeah, it's still winter here, but I am not complaining.
I love to hibernate in my art studio and work on my projects.
These are what I am working on today.

I am illustrating Magic on the Rooftop again written by Mari Mine Rutka,
published by Crane Publishing. I have to come up with a newer
updated version of Illos. The first version was really an old style of mine.
You can see the evolution of my style.

Here is the old illustration version of Magic on the Rooftop:

Here is a my process for Magic on the Rooftop:

1. I sketched in pencil , scanned and inserted an image of the teddy bear:

2. I colored the lineart in photoshop for my color studies:

2. Then I imported the text and made more color adjustment:

I have fourteen more pages to work on for this project.

My deadline is April 19,2009

MondayArtDay Theme: Cliff Hanger

This is a book based on an Asian folktale which I 've illustrated
while living in Singapore where I've set up my art studio from 2006-2007.

A corner of my Singapore art studio shown with my niece, Anna Angeles-Patajo

Illustration Friday

This is my entry for Illustration Friday topic " Flawed"

Fairy Series

This is a watercolor painting I did from a sketch done in Bali--I got the inspiration of creating a Fairy Series paintings while staying in Ubud, Bali is---such a mystical Island. I actually met a fairy there....

There's a little Fairy on my coffee table. A painting I did awhile ago. I catch myself doing a lot of Fairy doodles and sketches . Now I have a little fairy friend I can take with me where ever I go.
I can even tell her all my deepest secrets.