Liz Wong

Three comic books against a wooden background, with the titles "Phased", "The BOOK of DEATH Haiku Comics", and "Blood of My Blood".

Hey there! I'm an artist, cartoonist, and writer based in Seattle. I write and illustrate metaphysical comics and draw and paint landscapes en plein aire focusing on water-based media.

My latest comic project was The BOOK of DEATH Haiku Comics, pictured with my other two!

More at zenosarrow.net.

Ooh, I saw she was on the list of authors! I loved her whale book, looking forward to meeting her!

Poulsbo Kids’ Book Festival, Saturday, November 15th, 11 am - 3 pm, North Kitsap High School. www.poulsbokidsbookfest.com

Hey folks, I’ll be at the Poulsbo Kids’ Book Festival this Saturday, November 15th, along with a whole slew of other authors and illustrators!
www.poulsbokidsbookfest.com

Today is #nationalSTEMday! Celebrate by reading biographies of #WomenInSTEM. @steamteambooks
#bookposse #teachers #librarians #educators #homeschoolers #bookstagram #booktok #edusky #kidlit #picturebooks #scicomm #STEM #STEAM #STEMeducation #biography #edtechchat #WomenInTech #WomenInTech

I just read this one and loved everything about it!

Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is OpenOctober@Sourcebooks.com. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...

This Friday in Seattle - Haiku Comics art by five NW artists at the U District Art Walk.
www.udistrictartwalk.org/hosts/univer...

(This image by John Burgess)

Painting of Mt. Rainier with wildflowers in the foreground. Watercolor and gouache.

Another vacation painting - we went to Mt. Rainier and it was pretty spectacular. Lots of wildflowers blooming.

Combination of both! My travel palette is mostly watercolor with a few pans of gouache, but I mix and match them indiscriminately.

Painting of Sheep Lake near Mt. Rainier. Hill and trees reflected in the lake, rocks in the foreground.

Painting of the forest near Packwood, WA. Gouache and watercolor.

Vacation paintings - Sheep Lake and woods near Packwood, WA.

#pleinair

Gouache painting of a house with a hill in the background and trees a roads in the foreground. Mapcrunch reference.

Gouache painting of a house with a pond in the foreground.

Mini paintings number 4 and 5, buildings from various references.

Looks so good! Love the palette!

I love these!

I’m enjoying seeing all your experiments with different materials!

Gouache painting of Ronald Bog. Trees are reflected in the water and foliage is in the foreground. A few structures are visible on the opposite shore.

Watercolor sketch from Restlawn cemetery. Path and lawn with dappled light in the foreground, trees in the middle ground, and a fence with houses behind it in the background.

Recent plein air paintings - from Ronald Bog and a quick 20 minute sketch from the cemetery to test my painting setup.

#pleinair

Gouache painting of a stream with hills in the background and a white fence in the foreground.

Mini painting #3 - from mapcrunch reference.

#landscape #gouache

Gouache painting of a steam and mossy rocks.

Tiny painting #2 in my 4 in x 4 in sketchbook. Sometimes I watch the explore.org cams for the landscape reference.

Gouache painting of a sailboat at the Edmonds Marina.

Gouache painting of Richmond Beach, with the ferry in the background.

Paintings from sketching meetups in June and July.

Gouache painting of a red barn, with trees and the Wenatchee river in the foreground.

Gouache painting of the Wenatchee river.

A couple of paintings from vacation on the Wenatchee river.

#pleinair #gouache

Yes, thank you for the reminder! I spaced out on the July art walk but will be there for this one!!

Small gouache painting of a snowy mountain with hills and a green tree in the foreground.

I feel like I’m constantly in a state of “getting back into making art” or trying to make it easier to sit down and make something, so I have been making tiny paintings in a tiny watercolor sketchbook - this one based off a reference from line-of-action.com

Congratulations!! Way to go!

this kicks ass

Congrats!! So much work but I’m sure it will be beautiful!

Haiku comic with an illustration of a mermaid with red hair holding a fork. The text reads, “deep in the ocean/she finds herself dreaming of/the human world”

I’m taking a haiku comics class, and we had an assignment to make a non-traditional haiku (not about seasons or nature, but about pop culture, supernatural creatures, fairy tales, etc.) Here’s mine:

deep in the ocean
she finds herself dreaming of
the human world

#haikucomic

Leaf miners, pick off the affected leaves, check the remaining leaves for eggs, usually on the underside of the leaves. You can also use a row cover to prevent them from laying eggs (it’s some sort of flying insect.) I’ve had success being diligent about getting the eggs off (I just scrape them off)

Liz Wong Illustration postcard for KidLitArtPostcard day. Illustration of a crocodile carrying groceries walking down the street.

Happy KidLitArtPostcard day!

I'm Liz, I'm an author/illustrator and I enjoy illustrating quirky animals in watercolor and gouache.

lizwongillustration.com

#kidlitartpostcard

Haiku comic: spring green on my brush/ sunlight sparkling through new leaves/ dancing on the pond

Today it’s gray and raining but here’s a haiku comic about painting outside.

Watercolor painting of a park

Painting from a forest-y bit of the city park, looking towards a sunny bit of lawn. It smelled really nice here, very woodsy.

#pleinair #watercolor

Thank you!