BLUE BIRD " ENJOY NATURE, LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN

I painted this little blue bird that I saw on Instagram, the original photo was taken by Eduardo Rivera, a photographer and odontology student from Tijuana, and I made my version from the original pic, I added lot of textures with painted leaves. An the final result is a cool print. The print is available on my etsy.

  

NEW PRINT LOVE AND LIGHT

I made a illustration: hummingbird with quartz crystals and the quote "love and light" available on my etsy as print (with or without the quote)

You can see me draw....

DECEMBER DESKTOP CALENDAR 2015

Free to download, click on the image.

FIRST AUTUMN AT DES MOINES

I made some shots in the fall, photographs of my garden and near my home.

Autumn was very pretty, I did not have all the photos that I wished buy I enjoyed all the colors, specially red-orange trees (not showed here), is amazing how much beauty we can find on dried nature. Even when green turns black. 

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When I was kid I loved cinema, now is not my hit and Im not a "movie person" but always caught my attention some kinds of videos, especially those with beautiful photography.
My husband and I have made some for several years as some already know, experimental or creative videos without none at deepening.

Time is no longer as before when we had hours and we were free to create videos and experiment with video all days, but I decided to give me the task of recording personal moments, no matter the subject as they will be just little moments where I find beauty (as you know I see beauty even in the stones). Then pass them on to my husband for him to edit.

I hope you like it, all this will be numbered beginning with No. 1

BLUE DAYFLOWER

Double exposition with this little girl, I like how her hands look on the blend, Im not sure but I this this girl belongs to Bouguereau paintings.

SAPPHIRE FLOWERS AND BIRD

WIP graphite✏️ trabajo en proceso grafito.

A video posted by Valeria Alejandra Prieto. 🌿 (@valerialejandra_) on Nov 23, 2015 at 11:04am PST

GIRLS MYSELF DOUBLE EXPOSURES

I took some portraits on my home, then I bended it with other portraits (paintings). I love double exposure.

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Yesterday we went to Greenwood trail, and I made this photo, I love to make double expo with old paintings, I remember the first time, was 7 years ago approximately I was alone on my classroom waiting for my students, and I was looking the cotton filed and the sun making shadows on the floor, then I started to search in a book for old paintings and with my ipad I started to mix myself with other, thats very cool.

TESORO, LOOKING FOR TREASURES

Behind the scenes that my husband made, I was looking for wild flowers to work with.

THREE SKULLS

This was our first "Día de Muertos" without celebration, we were tired and we decide to spend the day at home making some improvements, suddenly my husband told me about the party at the Museum of Modern Art and they were having a party to celebrate the day of deaths! with mariachi, pan de muerto (bread of deaths) and altars, so we jumped out our bed and arrived to the Museum, was so cool! until our daughter started to cry and yell "A la calle!" ("Les´t go outside") she was scared with the ladies dressed as skulls and the music haha. So our party was over.

We came back to home and I was so upset because the party was like a mexican miracle here in Iowa and Valentina started to cry :( thats why I decided to make my own Día de Muertos on paper, I mean, I started to make some drawings of skulls and a hint of watercolor.

VAL CATRINA

One of my favorite holidays of the year is the Day of the Dead, this year we did not dressed up as Catrines therefore I decided to draw myself as Catrina. (graphite and acrylic)

NOVEMBER DESKTOP CALENDAR

November free desktop calendar ready to download, just click on the image.
I took this photo at the mini Botanical Garden at Colorado Springs, and this image is part of my wall calendar FLOWERS 2016 available on my etsy. I love how looks the shadow and light.

SQUIRREL ON WOOD "AUTUMN GOLD PECAN"

The second illustration from my work with wood. This si a cute squirrel on "Autumn gold tone" wood.