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Lurking in the deep...

My first isometric illustration, under a frozen mountain lurks a monster... Adapted to that world thrives an ecosystem with strange creatures and plants. Done in Illustrator, this illustration has been spinning around in my head for the past few days.

A beautiful flower that caught my eye at my parents' place 🌸 #watercolor #illustration #flower #beautiful #beauty #children #book #white #greenery #artistOnInsta #artistmichi #brush #inspiration #nature #love #paint #camilin #botany #botanical #lily #small #print #artistforhire #flora

The day I met my doppelganger.. of sorts

I love shopping and one day me and my husband, as usual, went together to the local mall and did a lot of grocery shopping. Luckily that day the queue at the checkout was quite small and as we stood in one line we both noticed that the cashier looked just like me!

A short but thinner version of me to be exact but our facial features were so similar! She looked at me almost the same time we looked at her and we could see her surprise.

Me and her, we both started giggling at the same time, controlling so other people won’t think that we’re making fun of them.

I was really surprised and my hubby nicknamed her as my twin and from that day onwards no matter how rush her counter was, I’d checkout there itself.

Oddest thing was we both smiled at each other happily, but neither of us knew the other’s name — probably because it felt like we knew each other with just uttering “Hi” and “Thankyou, bye”.

For some reason it felt more comfortable just smiling. Then she left the job and we moved to another city. But still remembering those moments make me smile.

This has made me curious to see what kind of people I’ll meet in the future, whether they be friendly or not. It’ll be interesting none the less.

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Adventure!! Swipe right for lineart 😳 #water #waterColorPencils #watercolor #art #childrensbook #whimsyillos #whimsical #cute #lineart #line #balloon #steampunk #happy #adventure #illustration #artistOnInsta #artistmichi #renuka #michi #inspiration #child #book

A royal kitty riding on his royal.. um.. "steed"

A watercolor painting after a long long time 🙇 not much time for myself nowadays. Managed to do this today but couldn't have done it without @poetshri looking after our babychu 😍 #watercolor #aquarelle #lotus #water #nature #print #beauty #green #flower #red #pink #artistmichi #pond #crystal #lotuspond #color #biology #botany #love #inspiration #artaday #artistoninsta #paint #baby #paintermom #mom

Children who dream #01 I'm working on a series of watercolor illustrations about the dreams we have when we are children but the ones we never follow when we grow - it could be because of monetary needs or peer pressure or parents' forcing us or maybe we just forgot. I'm trying to capture the joys of children, dreaming of what to be and happy in their own world 😊 #art #watercolor #illustration #artistforhire #children #book #inspiration #dream #goal #archaeology #dig #cat #girl #plant #archaeologist #excavation #joy #site #professor #history #artistOnInsta #artistontumblr #love #green #mud #mummy

A watercolor still life painting #watercolor #still #life #paint #artistmichi #fun #pot #frog #box #background

woah fantastic! The hunter is deadly cool

Hunting down the last mermaids.

A painting study that took a very elaborate turn. It’s my first time fitting so many characters in a single composition. The second image you see is how the model posed, versus what I managed to finish painting during the class. I worked on the background between yesterday and today. I still need to work on my textures a little bit but I am overall satisfied with the result.

The process gif skips soooo many steps though lol. I swear I reworked each mermaid like three times, I just couldn’t get their faces to look right no matter how much I tried!

As I was working on this piece I was thinking about fishermen or coastal cities with archaic customs like whaling, or even having to fish illegally because of their dire living conditions. it’s very sad that us, humans, are fishing so many species to extinction because of deeply-rooted traditions, or sheer desperation to keep ourselves and our families alive. It’s a very tough world out there, with no easy solutions in sight.