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Water, Acrylic Paint,

The Rahara is a sea creature of legend from Venezuela. It was interesting to research it, and there only but one drawing of the creature, but it looked like a worm-eel like fish with large teeth. I was inspired by a similarly designed real life fish called the viperfish, which was an inspiration. Living in the deep ocean reminded me of zombies, who are the creatures that live in the deep earth. I wanted to give the creature a non fish like head, including white eyes as inspiration from zombies.

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This piece is dedicated to the dinosaur like creature named “Stoa” that is supposedly living in the undiscovered areas of the rainforests in South America. By using the very little information I had on the creature, the design was very similar to a real life dinosaur named Carnotaurus. I used this as a reference while still sticking to the Stoa’s description. Living in the forest, I thought the green would be a good contrast to the black and white creature. Originally it was supposed to be on a bigger canvas and the full body of the Stoa, but I decided to save that for a similar creature I’ll do later on.

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Not stepping entirely aside from my S.I., I wanted to make a piece on a more "real" creature who truly is an alien, the octopus. I used numerous photos of the Giant Pacific Octopus to truly get the design and texture correct. I also looked at vegetables, especially lettuce for the coral-esque textures in the background and onions for the suctions on the octopus' arms.

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SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION: How do the mythical creatures of Latin folklore reveal themselves to individuals?

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Acrylic Paint, 2022

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Acrylic Paint, Oil pastel, 2022

The Auhizotl is a mythical dog like creature that has a tail with some sort of grasping hand that drowns people in its territory. I wanted to make this a darker colored piece showing that this creature has some sort of aggression, and I wanted the creature to contrast with the dark blue, hence why I added orange hair.

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SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION: How do the mythical creatures of Latin folklore reveal themselves to individuals?

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"La Llorona Bonita" (The Beautiful Cryer)

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"La Llorona Bonita" (The Beautiful Cryer)

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Watercolor, Oil Pastel 2022

Context: La Llorona is a vengeful ghost that is a part of Latin folklore, known as the "Weeping Woman". She lives in waterfront areas where she cries loudly over her dead children who she drowned.

Description:
I wanted to use the opportunity of the mixed media project to do La Llorona, and I wanted her to be blue with slight hints of green. This was to represent how due to her story she is connected to water, as well as the coloration skin turns to bodies when they drown (slight coloration of blue).
I used watercolor for the background and oil pastel for the character. The objective of this piece was show a portrait of La Llorona.

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SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION: How do the mythical creatures of Nicaraguan folklore reveal themselves to individuals?

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"La Llorona Bonita" (The Beautiful Cryer)

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"La Llorona Bonita" (The Beautiful Cryer)

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Oil Pastel and Watercolor 2022
This is my New and Revised Version of La Llorona, because I deeply hate my other one. This one to me is much better, but there was some changes that I probably would've made to this one. I originally wanted to make her much more gross, and dead-looking, but I wanted to make her more beautiful than grotesque. Also I wish I had made some sort of tear dripping from her face. But I had a realization that she WAS a beautiful woman before tragedy struck. As for how she reveal's herself to individuals, I feel that she turned blue not to just being drowned, but due to her now-connection with the water in which is her new home. She reveals herself to people as a woman of the water, but can be quick to turn herself into the demon she is hiding within.

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SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION: How do the mythical creatures of Latin folklore reveal themselves to individuals?

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Acrylic Paint, Watercolor, Markers
2022

This a landscape entailing the eerie mysterious jungle in which "El Hombre de Gran Pie" (Nicaragua's Bigfoot) lives. As you can see, or better yet as you can't see, the creature is extremely hidden in the painting, just as he would be in real life. As for how it reveals itself to individuals, it doesn't. I like to think this area of the jungle is mythical already as it is, with the perfect looking creek with the fantasy saturated water. It turned out pretty much how I wanted it to be, it was original supposed to a much or dark environment although I wish it had more depth in the background to add realism.

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SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION: How do the mythical creatures of Latin folklore reveal themselves to individuals?

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ACRYLIC 2021
For the first project of the year, I wanted to straight dive in the creature I was most interested in- El Serpiente Emplumada (Feathered Serpent/Dragon). Using acrylic, I wanted to show the vivid colors of the mythical serpent. but also trying to take a more realisitc approach of what one would look like in real life as to one on rock paintings. I wanted to make it look the closest like a real snake, while still make it feel like it is a mythical dragon. It relates to my question to show the beautiful colors of the creature, while also displaying the threat that encountering one would detail.

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I knew the changes I had in my sketch were too drastic to just go straight to canvas, so I decided to make another sketch which turned out even better.

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After drawing the serpent I decided I wanted to go for a slightly more realistic look and I wanted replace the feathers for scales like a snake but keep the feathers on the head. They would be all very vibrant colors instead of the originally thought one color feathers. I also could tell this pose wasn't gonna work for what I wanted to do.