A Free Coloring Page for You!

 A couple of years ago, I participated in a collaborative art  project called "Doodles for Donation", where artists were invited to create doodles which were later published as coloring books to be distributed for senior retirement homes as a way to relieve their stress. 

I am glad to say that this  doodle below  was accepted as a part of their jury process. 

I am sharing this coloring page here for you to print it out and color it any which way you like so that it can relieve your stress as well. 

Title: Gossip Time!

I am  someone who loves birds and also being an active birder , I decided to create this doodle. I imagined that the birds are meeting other birds on a hot summer day and are enjoying   and  gossiping on  the events of their day and that's the inspiration for this doodle.   

You have my permission to color this page. But please don't sell the coloring page that I have created. 

I would love to see your creations and please share your art with me on Instagram using the hashtag #coloringcreativejayu

Have a fun time coloring!

My Recent Artworks in Colored Pencils

Pictures below are some of my recent artworks created using only Colored Pencils.

1) This artwork below is for the Studio Challenge for the "COLOR" magazine

Title:  Hello Summer!
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos  Color Pencils, Prismacolor Colorless Blender Pencil and white gel pen for highlights only on Kohinoor Color Pencil Paper
Size: 9.5 by 7.5"
Photo reference credit: Ann Kullberg and her amazing team from "Color" magazine and the Mountain bluebird is my own photo reference 

2)This year I will be attending  the CPSA (Colored Pencil Society of America ) International convention held later this month. The CPSA convention will be held in Brea,CA this year from July 31- Aug 3,2019.

I am also a  member of CPSA San Jose local chapter.  Local member chapter artists are contributing artworks related to Monarch Butterfly to raise awareness about the slow decline of this amazing butterfly population at this convention.

Picture below is a scientific illustration of the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly. This illustration shows the various stages the Monarch butterfly goes through before it transforms itself into a beautiful butterfly.

Title: Metamorphosis
Size: 5 x 7"
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos Color Pencils on Canson's Cold press watercolor paper. Used only 10% Sakura micron pens
Photo Reference Credit: My own reference.
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3)I recently visited the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History and created the following scientific illustrations from my visit.

Title: Rufous Hummingbird, Noctuid Moth on a Pink Heliconia Flower
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos Color Pencils on Canson's mixed media paper
Size: 9 x 12"
Reference Photo Credit: My own reference and the hummingbird drawn from subject 

 

Hummingbirds generally like the nectar from Heliconia flowers. It is actually their favorite flower to drink nectar.

Title: The Green Birdwing Butterfly
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos Color Pencils on Canson's cold press watercolor paper
Size: 4 x 7"
Photo Reference Credit: Pixabay

4) I purchased a Tulip at a local farmers market. It was so beautiful that I decided to put my scientific illustration skills to test and created this artwork from life. The moths in the picture is also my own reference. I attended an event called "Moth Night" on National moth day last year. I added this moth to add visual interest to this composition. I made rough sketches of this moth in my sketchbook and used them as reference for my artwork.  The magnification of these moths have been reduced in scale.

Title: Tulip with Moths
Medium: Faber- Castell Polychromos Color Pencils on Canson's Mixed media paper
Size: 9 x 12"
Photo Reference--  Tulip Drawn from Subject and moths are from my sketches and photo reference 

5) On March 21, 2019 , I won  first place in the Gold section  at the monthly Sunnyvale Art Club meeting competition.

Note: This will be my last entry under Gold section and from now onwards I move to the Blue/Advanced section.

Title: Oh Deer!
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos Color Pencils, Micron pens on Canson's Cold press watercolor paper
Size: 11 by 14"

Club members  who win the monthly competition at the club get to display their painting at a local cafe located in downtown Sunnyvale,CA  for the whole month ( Mar 22- April 24, 2019) under the signage " Sunnyvale Art Club's Artist of the month" signage.

Here is my picture below the signage at the cafe.

Title: Oh Deer!
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos Color Pencils, Micron pens on Canson's Cold press watercolor paper
Size: 11 by 14"

6) This is my entry for the Colored Pencil Magazine' s Sep 2018 challenge.

Title: Dino Candy
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos Color pencils on Canson's Black paper
Size: 7 x 5"
Photo Reference Credit: Sally Robertson ( Copyright released)

Thank you for visiting my blog and I will see you with another post. 

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks." -- Yo-Yo Ma

Sunnyvale Art Club's 2017 Annual Art show at the Sunnyvale Library

The Sunnyvale Art Club's annual art show happened this weekend at the Sunnyvale Public Library. This was a juried show. Name of the Judge: Jose Luis Andrade. He is an instructor at the Arthub academy located at Saratoga CA. Website: http://www.arthub.academy/jose-luis-andrade

Show dates : June 17,2017 from 12 noon to 6 pm (Saturday) and June 18,2017 from 12 noon to 5 pm (Sunday) at the Sunnyvale Public Library  665 West Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086.

This show was a memorable one for me because not only did I win 3rd place under mixed media category, I also sold my painting -- Tribute to Cecil. 

Here are some pictures of the show:

Note: I won 3rd place for the Tiger painting seen in the picture and I sold the Lion painting seen here (Tribute to Cecil)

Note: Tiger painting details:
Title: Tiger,Tiger, Burning Bright
Medium: Pen and Ink ( Mixed media category)
3rd place winner under mixed media category

Lion Painting details:
Title: Tribute to Cecil
Medium: Pen and Ink with Colored pencils  ( mixed media category)
Price: SOLD !

These are only 2 paintings that I entered this year for the show.

Selfie with the judge of the show: Jose Luis Andrade

Here is a close up picture of my SOLD  painting:

Title: Tribute to Cecil
Medium: Pen and Ink with Colored Pencils on Watercolor paper
Price: SOLD !

Here is a close up of my Tiger painting

Title: Tiger,Tiger, Burning Bright
Medium: Pen and Ink
3rd place winner under mixed media category

Some more pictures of the show and  fantastic artworks of other art club members are below:

Note: Visitors admiring artworks 

Visitors admiring artworks 

Artwork of Angelo Lopez

Art Demo by an art club member-- Mat Coutney  outside the Sunnyvale Library

The judge giving his critique on artworks

Beautiful artwork by Cathy Ordonez

Beautiful paintings by Lavonne Carrick

Diana with her beautiful paintings

Suzanne with her stunning animal artworks and also a wildlife enthusiast

Some pictures of art club members who worked behind the scenes to make this show possible:

Club members discussing logistics on how to display artworks! 

Photographing artworks -- Barbara Wilson with Lavonne 

Setting up panels to display artworks

This is how it looks after show set up.

Picture of postcard created for the show by an  art club member

Show postcard for 2017

I thankful for being a part of this vibrant art community. And I also thank everyone who worked towards making this show a success. I would like to specially thank Suzanne who is a  superb wildlife artist and a wildlife enthusiast for purchasing my artwork -- Tribute to Cecil.  Thank you again.


Update: I came  to know that we had about 1000 visitors who attended this show that weekend.

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -- Helen Keller 

A celebration of Animals !

For the months of October 2016 and November 2016 my paintings will be up at " For Other Living Things"  located at 1261 S Mary Avenue,Sunnyvale,CA. I share this space with two other local artists. Please feel free to visit the store if you are an animal lover like yours truly.

Being fond of animals  especially the "wild" kind,  I dedicate this post to all types of animals.

Pictures below are the paintings that will be up for Oct and Nov, 2016 at the store

Medium: Pen and Ink with Colored Pencils on Watercolor Paper

 Also linking this to Jake Parker's Inktober Challenge -- #inktober  and #inktober2016

Title: Adopt Me!
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Only the Pencil feature in the App Procreate

Title: Best Friends
Medium: Colored Pencils on Watercolor Paper

Title: Finding Nemo
Medium: Acrylics on 9 by 12" canvas

Pictures below are my entries to Colored Pencil Magazine's  Aug 2016 monthly challenge -- Beginner Category.
Photo Reference Credit: Sally Robertson

Title: American Bull Dog
Medium: Kohinoor Wood-less Colored Pencils and Watercolor Pencils  on Canson's Acid Free Sketch Paper 

The picture below is my entry to the Colored Pencil magazine's Annual Art Competition

Title: The Madhubani Peacock
Medium: Colored Pencils on Canson's Acid Free sketch paper

 Picture below is  One more entry to Jake Parker's Inktober Challenge. The Mule Deer is  created using Pen and Ink on watercolor paper--  #inktober2016 and  #inktober

With this I will conclude this post with a picture of one my most favorite animal from the animal kingdom. Picture taken from Jane Goodall Institute. 

Digital Whisper weekly challenge theme: Racoon and Every Inchie Monday-- Robot

Here are my entries for this week's Digital whisper challenge-- Racoon 

Title: I am watching you !
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Procreate

Note: Picture of  Racoon taken from my camera roll. This racoon visits us daily. 

Title: Time for  Dessert !
Apps used: Procreate
Medium: iPad Art

Note:  I wanted to infuse some humor onto this art piece. So used one of my favorite candy  for dessert. Also the car further ahead is not sure which way to pass them as these racoons want to  enjoy their dessert first. 

This Racoon is originally my painting done using pencils on my sketchbook. I took a picture of  it and incorporated it into this collage painting.

I hope you like it. If you want to participate for this weekly challenge please visit  http://digitalwhisper.blogspot.com.au/ 

This week the theme  at "Every Inchie Monday"  is "Robot." This is the first time I am participating for this challenge. It was quite challenging for me to work on such a small canvas as I am used to working in larger canvases. But I feel as an artist we sometimes have to break out of our comfort zone  and play and experiment with art.

Title: Beep Beep !
Medium: Micron Pens and Color Pencils on Moleskin journal

If you want to participate for this weekly challenge, please visit:
http://everyinchiemonday2012.blogspot.com/2016/05/inchie-robot.html 


I thank you all in advance for your time and comments here. 

" There is much more learning than knowing in the world."

My Tribute to Cecil the Lion !

I started this painting right about the time Cecil was in the news but I got to finish  it only  early this year.

Title: Tribute to Cecil
Medium: Pen and Ink on Watercolor paper and  Colored Digitally using the iPad.

My painting won second place at the monthly art competition at Sunnyvale Art Club monthly meeting on Feb 18,2016. The theme of the art competition was "Portraits"

Title: Apsara
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Sketchclub

Early Feb,2016  my pet squirrel painting  made it to the cover of  Kathy Qi's  Key2arts  newsletter-- Newsletter Issue 78 Bay Area Art Events (Feb 1-10)

Here is the link to her newsletter:
 https://www.key2arts.com/newsletter/newsletter-issue-78-bay-area-art-events-feb-1-10

Here is a picture of Tulips in full bloom at my patio garden

Title: Garden Goddess -- Tulips
Medium: iPhone Photography

Wish you all a Happy and Colorful Spring !


#Cecil #animals #Lion.  #zoo  #endcrueltynow  #zentangle  #Tulips

You are Invited ! --- Contemporary Art Show

Hello All,

I will be participating in a group art show at the Sunnyvale Art Gallery from November 2 to November 30,2015. A reception will take place on Saturday, November 14,2015  from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The artists will be present to greet guests and talk about their art. Light food and drinks will be served. Everyone is welcome. The Sunnyvale Art Gallery is located at 251 West El Camino Real,  Sunnyvale, California.

  All my valued customers/ art collectors  will receive my personal   handwritten thank you note  with some fun free  goodies.  

Here is a sneak preview of some of the paintings from my animal series 

All of you are invited ! 



#Inktober #artforsale #art #Creativity #Sunnyvale #BayArea #artcollectors #artlovers  #contemporaryart   #coloredpencil

#penandink #inktober2015  #tiger  #squirrel #elephant
  #buffalo #bull

#Zentangle 

 #SaveAnimals

#NationalGeographic