Nora Aoyagi

Group Show February 11th- March 6th! (San Francisco)

Yes, it's finally happening! 

(Artwork left to right is me, Leah Dai Brawley, and Gina M. Contreras)

I hope you can make it!  

Collections Part 3: Toys

For this collection I chose a few more traditional and old fashioned toys.  

I grew up with several of these, including the worry dolls (lower left), the Daruma (the round guy), and the Matryoshka (upper left).  It's a bit nostalgic.  

Pinocchio

Kokeshi doll

Collections Part 2: Rocks and Minerals

These images are very inspired by a two page spread in an atlas that I used to pour over as a child.  All the gems looked like candy to me.

Pyrite

 

Sulphur

Ruby

These drawing very a fun (if hurried) exercise in drawing light and texture.  Generally I do most of my work from my head, but it's also great to have some grasp of how to render non-imaginary things too. 

Also, Happy New Year!!!