I even had the chance to finally meet her (along with Miss Alphabet ) after the Sanrio 50th show/ party and we had a nice day thrifting around Melrose!

You can check out more of her work online at her website or stay up to date with her clients and shoots through her fanpage

UPDATE:  She is selling a 2012 calendar right now with some of her new amazing photos!  Grab one HERE if you enjoy her work

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Yes, another Mermaid post!  Since the Mermaid collab with Locketship was selling so swimmingly (HUR HUR HUR!) Miss Maria decided to take part in an amazing event, the first ever Mercon!  Yes, that’s right~ a MERMAID themed convention! I could not attend the event, but I jumped at the chance to work on a new mermaid piece to launch at the event with Locketship.  A lot of people had requested another design with a mermaid girl + her tail in the piece~  so after a bit of sketching on how to work this out so she fit cute in the circle shape of the jewelry pieces + would still be easy to see at such a small size~ I came up with this little lady:

I am really happy with how the colors came out + the fact I got that tail worked in ok! You can buy her online now through the Locketship online shop HERE in the following designs

~ ON SALE NOW!~

So anyway, Back to Mercon…  It sounded like an amazing event!  It was held in Las Vegas at the Silverton Mermaid Hotel  ( which has a 117,000 gallon Mermaid Tank! WHAAAAT!?) with vendors, fashion shows, Mermaid celebrities and the end of the day they had a really awesome mermaid pool party!  The always lovely Maria (locketship), Stephanie (Zilla), Stephiee (Dolly Beast) and Miss Bebe flew over from LA to attend the event and be adorable at the booth!

Kudos to Locketship + Mercon for the event photos! Check out the blog post by Maria on the event over at Buzznet HERE for more details and fun pics!

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Leanna Lin’s Wonderland over in Los Angeles turns 1 year old this year! To celebrate, the amazing Miss CROWDED TEETH put together a show ~ CROWDED TEETH + FRIENDS presents WONDERLAND … a fun-filled land of happiness!

♥ ♥ SHOW ON VIEW: AUGUST 3rd – SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2011 ♥ ♥

For this show I was stuck for a while on what exactly to paint, I just kept wanting to work on an Alice piece (yes very obvious choice I know) because I have not drawn her before!  Eventually I gave in and made my newest piece “Oh Alice” which was a lot of fun to work on.

Title: Oh Alice
Medium: Giclee print
Size:  14″ x 20″ (framed)
Price:  $399.00

Super cute pieces by Bei Badgirl, Alyssa Nassner, and Helena Garcia

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Alyssa Nassner  //  Axel Honey  //  Bei Badgirl  //  Crowded Teeth  //  Deth P. Sun
Erica Sirotich  //  Erin Paisley  //  Fomato  //  Helena Garcia
J. Fuchs  //  Jessica Lopez  //  Julie West  //  Ming Ong  //  Miss Kika
Sachiho Hino Lee  //  Seibei  //  Stevie Raya

my original concept sketch for the piece ♥

Aaaand the final vector!

Hope everyone enjoys the new piece and someone can give her a good home!  She is still for sale through the gallery and they show is running till Sept 3rd so if you live around LA please go check it out~ it looks amazing and Crowded Teeth really went all out with the amazing decorations (like she always does! ♥)

xoxo Stay Sweet

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♥ ♥ Photos by Digital Sophia ♥ ♥  Model: Traci Hines ♥ ♥ MUA: Doe Deere

Isn’t that shell bra just amazing?? Traci made it!

To buy the pieces you see in the shoot plus more choices~  please check out the online shop here at  Locketship!

PS. If you buy any pieces please do share your photos with me via e-mail or on the facebook fanpage!  I would love to see them

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I set to work right away on some mermaid girls, cute little sea creatures, and a quick logo for the collection after we discussed some basic color concepts.  We decided on some Seahorses, princess octopus, a peaceful pink mermaid, and a green/blue mermaid in coral!   ** Update! I have now added a NEW purple mermaid to the set! Post featuring the new pieces will be posted soon ♥ ***

I’m so happy with how the art came out and the final pieces look so stunning!

These are just the launch pieces!  Locketship has been expanding the set to offer more choices and different price points~

you can see a current catalog of whats for sale ♥ ♥ HERE ♥ ♥ on the online shop!

Some pieces come to you in little treasure chests, HOW CUTE IS THAT!?!?!?!?! I use mine on my dresser to hold hair bands now :3

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(Pretty photo by Shannon Cottrell )

Sugarpill (AKA that rainbow awesome makeup brand I did some box art for) Contacted me to do a new illustration for use in the IMATS expo booth~ a new girl alongside the sugarpill mascot kitty that decorates a lot of the products they sell ♥  Naturally I had a blast on this project and the result is so freaking beautiful… just look at that cool 3d font on top and everything.  Even the ladies match!

I really need more pretty photos from the event!  Please send them my way if you snapped any!! ♥Maybe Amy will upload some next year HUR HUR HUR ♥

Go buy some makeup!  It’s amazing~ Just google around or hit youtube for tutorials!

Kudos to Bubblepunch for the photos

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Bit of a late post, but I was waiting till all the photos started to appear online before I shared this event with everyone! For JapanLA’s 5th Year Anniversary Party on June 4th(first party at the new giant location on Melrose Ave. in LA!) they had the most amazing event and gallery show with over 500+ people showing up~ “Kittens and Ice cream”! The party was filled with all sorts of contests (like “Craziest Cat Lady”) with prizes donated from San X, Food trucks, goodies, games, and of course~ the art show.  Participating artists included Bei Badgirl, Twinkie Chan, Gary Baseman, Camilla d’Errico, Eimi, Buffmonster, and many more!  A % of art sales even went to charity to help less fortunate kitties ♥

My contribution to this show was “Pretty Persian Parfait“ which I had printed as a yummy giant giclee canvas (one of a kind)

Title: Pretty Persian Parfait
Medium:  Giclee varnished & stretched canvas print
Size: 16″x20″
Price: $600

♥ BUY HERE ♥

As usual the girls looked amazing and themed from head to toe!

As of this posting the piece is still for sale, I hope someone can give it a good home~ its stretched so no frame needed ♥

Also, here is a little bonus ♥ ♥ The original sketch concept I started this piece from!  You can see more of these and progress shots by following me on my facebook fanpage or twitter ♥

Linky dinks..

Japan LA blog post on the show

Orlando Welsh photos of event!

Dolly Beast Blog on the show + Adventures

LA Weekly

Italian Vogue

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Last month I was printed in the May issue of Digital Artist Magazine, Taiwan edition #44!!  They published a really interesting and PICTURE PACKED article about my work and some personal questions,  I think I have the original English interview for this~ so if enough people ask I will see if I can dig it up and post a translation for everyone.  I love this magazine, so it was so amazing to get a spotlight in it and maybe reach some new people over in Taiwan.  This issue also features my darling friend Mary (Acrylicana ) so if you can grab a copy you will get treated to a double does of eye candy.

Did you pick up this issue in your country? Sometimes they run articles in other places, so if it was printed in Brazil, UK, etc I would love to know!  For now, please enjoy the scans and check www.digitalartist.com/tw for more info or to order the issue ♥

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Lately I have started to feel like bigger is better with my art, so I have hooked up with a new giclee printer and have started to offer my gallery work as much larger wall candies.  I think a lot of detail sometimes gets lost in my smaller pieces, so to see it nice and big is really amazing~ plus a girl swimming in a sea of candy bunnies kind of demands to be a large piece!

Please check out LA Weekly, they featured a photo of my piece and wrote a wonderful article on the show!! ♥

Since I am still in Seoul, Korea I had to miss out attending this event which really made me sulk all evening around the house. Not only is it always fun to attend events you paint something for, but all of my friends go to these and get to dress up all pretty and eat amazing goodies~ gah I miss them!!  If you are in the LA area or can make the drive you must come out for an event sometime, you will not regret it!

♥ The goddess behind the show + new bow goodies ♥

I’ll upload a nice jpg of the digital piece “Miss Gummi Bunni Foo Foo” in my gallery this week, but for now please enjoy the canvas photos!

“Miss Gummi Bunni Foo Foo”
Giclee canvas print (varnished)
18″ x 32″, Framed, $575

♥ ♥ VIEW ALL THE PIECES ONLINE HERE ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ BUY MY PIECE HERE! ♥ ♥

♥ Some shots of the gallery. My piece makes pretty girls weep lmao ♥

♥ My friends are the cutest girls ever haha! ♥

Lil’ Rae Cakeballs, how I miss dem balls….

♥ ♥ BUY MY PIECE HERE! ♥ ♥

Photos by Dolly Beast Check out her post on the event!

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♥ Zambi Candy, Sugarpill, Twinkie Chan, Miss Kika, Sick for Cute, Miss Alphabet, San Smith, Acrylicana, Boredinc, Setsuna22, Egyptianruin ♥

Look at all that stuff!!! The bidding starts at only $50 for everything… makeup, commissions, clothing, stickers, its a bit of everything and all going to a good cause!  Please stop by HERE to bid or promote the auction!!! AUCTION ENDS APRIL 4TH!!!

I have donated 4 signed Mini prints (I don’t sell my mini prints at this time, and stopped signing them last year!) plus two of them are designs I retired!

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