Happy new year! Hope 2024 is off to a sweet start for you all. Sharing this lovely, cozy scene from November’s spread in Maribel’s Year.
Beautiful art from Maribel’s Year by Sarah Gonzales and brilliant motion graphics by Jeffrey Jones.
Maribel's Year Celebrates Halloween
In Maribel’s Year, on Halloween, Maribel and her mother carve pumpkins, pick apples and make apple pie for the first time. Beautiful art from Maribel’s Year by Sarah Gonzales and brilliant motion graphics by Jeffrey Jones.
Hope everyone has a great Halloween! 🎃🍂
October Events
Bay Area friends! I’ll be in San Jose at my first official Bay area event on Friday, October 6, and I’ve also got some other fun events planned in Orange County and Long Beach. I’ll be there with treats in tow. Hope to see you there!
📅 Sunday, October 1
⏰ Signing 1-2 pm at Booth B17
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
📅 Friday, October 6
⏰ Author Visit 4:00-5:30 pm
3355 Noble Avenue
San Jose, CA 95132
📅 Thursday, October 19
⏰ Signing 5-7 pm
Grand Opening Week
The District (next to Whole Foods)
2857 Park Ave
Tustin, CA 92782
📅 Saturday, October 21
⏰ Reading at 1 pm
Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library
5870 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90805
The 'Ber Months Are Here
The BER months are here and that means the holiday season has begun in the Philippines! You can catch a glimpse of the longest holiday season in the world in the September spread of Maribel’s Year, where Maribel’s papa makes traditional Christmas parol lanterns by hand to hang on the doors of all of her titos’ and titas’ homes.
Maribel's Year in Society of Illustrators The Original Art Annual Exhibition 2023
🌟Congratulations to Sarah Gonzales whose art from Maribel’s Year is in this year’s Society of Illustrators The Original Art annual exhibition! 🌟
From Sarah Gonzales —
“Maribel’s Year has been selected to be part of @soi128 The Original Art 43rd Annual Exhibition!!!
Here’s some process behind this starry parol* scene. Pencil sketches, digital colour processing, line art and a bit of inspiration.
*parols are Filipino ornamental star lanterns.
The photos are from my last trip to the Philippines back in 2016. A lot of time was spent travelling by car so most of my photos were snapped through the window. Along the roads the nature was vast and life was in layers.
A home with caged windows and all its tiny details caught my eye — pots, bottles and containers were reused and stacked with plants. From the archives I pulled up one of my studies and redrew it in this spread.
Big thanks to Art Director Dana Fritts and Editor @hellomabel 💛”
Click here to get a behind-the-scenes at Sarah’s creative process for the illustrations in Maribel’s Year.