Fish celebrating Christmas underwater, with kelp Christmas lights around a coral tree and all.

Because deadlines tend to wrap up at the end of the year and clients simmer down, December provides me time to design/illustrate this Christmas card for our fellow offices and clients, and for all of you too. In case I don’t get around to updating during the holidays, enjoy this e-card with an image of how I imagine fish celebrate Christmas under the sea. Merry early Christmas and Happy New Year!

I recently wrapped up a Wordpress theme for the talented wedding/art/lifestyle photographer, Erin Saldana. She was a fellow Art major with me at UCSB while we were learning the basics of everything. We took the same digital media and photography classes, building our first web sites and taking (my) first photos. (Yes, she knew for a while that photography is what she was meant to do.) As we went down our respective graphic design and photography routes, the result became a nice, artistic collaboration. Things do come full circle. Moral of the story: do what you love.

See the new theme at www.erinjsaldana.com/blog and be sure to check out her amazing photography. If you’re getting married, contact her! If you need a Wordpress theme developer, contact me. If you need a painting, you can’t go wrong with either. ;)

I draw a lot when on coffee breaks, days out in LA or Santa Barbara, when traveling, etc. So I’ll have to thank whoever this man is for being my subject on his (what must have been) usual study night at the local coffee spot. (Also, just a note, he was quite far away. I have yet to explore my artist’s boundaries of creeping up close to unsuspecting strangers.)

Originally a piece of a Vegas themed sleeve tattoo I designed.