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Happy early Chinese New Year!

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...

Happy new year, everyone! I know I've been MIA for some time...the end of last year dealt me some considerable blows, but I'm slowly on the mend now. 2011 is starting out pretty well for me, so I'm going to make this year the year of "Yes I can!" No more "I'll try" or "maybe" or "I dunno"... This will be the year of taking action!

My main resolution for this year is to focus on my artwork. I plan on opening an Etsy shop (yes, I know I said that before...but now I have actual merchandise!), working on some paintings, and hopefully becoming an exhibitor at APE or some sort of fair (crossing fingers for this last one.)

And so with that said, here is my first piece for the year. I know that last year was the year of the tiger, so this one has nothing to do with the new year. I'll probably just do a rabbit piece next. Enjoy!

It's been a month...

...since I've last posted. Sorry, I'm just not into this blogging thing like I used to be. I guess that will be one of my new year's resolutions to work on. (Yes, it's almost that time again...blah)

Anywho, I've actually got a couple of pictures to post. The first set is from APE which happened a couple weekends ago in San Francisco. Boy, did I enjoy it. It definitely had much more of an intimate atmosphere compared to the other cons I've been to. And there was walking and breathing room! lol Unfortunately, I had to limit myself to only $100 spending money. But I was happy with what I got. I also got to chat it up with a couple of my favorite artists: Nidhi Chanani and Pascal Campion. Those two are awesome! Hopefully, if I crack the whip on myself and start churning out some artwork, I'll set up a table next year. (Another thing to add to my resolutions list!)

From top to bottom, left to right: Bill Presing, Sho Murase (and the "Heroine" book), Fiona Meng, Danni Shinya Luo, and Liana Hee,

Nidhi and Pascal prints

I love Bill Presing's artwork!

I was soooooo excited when I saw him drawing this on the inside!

The next pic is actually a piece I did a long time ago. My friend e-mailed me a couple weeks ago asking if I had any Asian inspired artwork that she could borrow for an event she's having. I had to do a little digging through all my old artwork, but I was able to find it. It's done with Caran D'ache. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's like a watercolor crayon. I'm not a super fan of using it, but I actually like the way it turned out with this piece. So I'm dropping off Mr. Buddha this weekend and hopefully he might find a happy new owner who'd like to buy him!

As you can see, I scrubbed out the background because honestly, I didn't like it at all.

 And lastly, I have a cute little Halloween pic. I actually did it a couple weeks ago as a demo piece at work. I didn't know what to paint, so I just came up with it on the fly. I figured I'd post it just in time for Sunday. So with that being said, Happy Halloween to everyone and I hope you all have a safe and fun weekend! Eat tons of candy, too! =D

paint...

Hey all! Here's a quick color rough of a painting I plan on doing on wood...yes, wood! I bought a little wooden plaque awhile ago knowing I was going to paint on it, but wasn't sure of what. Unfortunately, I also gessoed it, not realizing that the wood grain would add great texture. (Hey, I've never painted on wood before, so lesson learned.) Oh, and I also bought some new paintbrushes, too. Gotta break 'em in!

I've just been inspired by some of my favorite artists and their paintings on wood (such as Camilla D'Errico and Martin Hsu) so I want try my hand at painting with acrylic again. As it stands, ever since college, I've hated acrylic with a passion. But hopefully, if I try some new techniques, I could learn to work with it. So this piece will be my experiment. Very ambitious, I know, but here's to hoping...

Oui oui!

 

GDG's topic for this week: French maid pinup

Doodly doo...

Hey all! I know, it's been awhile. So instead of just giving a lame excuse, let's cut to some doodles I've drawn lately. I'll try and get around to coloring them, but who knows. There's so much stuff I wanna do...

 I really don't know what's up with this girl. I guess I just wanted to do something different...

Something a little cuter...

So since I wasn't accepted into GDG, I figured I'll just draw along with their weekly theme anyway, in hopes of building up a nice little portfolio of girlies to submit next time. This week's theme, pirates! I'll try to get her colored in.

That's all for now, folks!

Yeah...

I know...I haven't blogged in awhile...I've been moving...I just got my internet up and working about an hour ago...haven't done any artwork in the past two weeks...that's my update!