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Love Locks

2012-02-14T20:09:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Now keep it going everyday....:)

Hairy Mask

2012-02-07T10:12:00.000-08:00

My hair is long. I need a hair cut, seriously. Or do it? I dunno.

What I do know is hair is so amazing when it's long because you can do so much with it, put it in a bun, curl, braid, straighten, leave it be....and more. I've been inspired lately by a flood of really cool disheveled braided designs which are effortless, put together and sophisticated... here's one of my pencil projects...

Dr. Gentlebot to the rescue

2012-02-05T15:16:00.001-08:00

Open Heart

2012-02-01T20:52:00.000-08:00

Inspired by the month, I'm mustering up my last ounce of energy for the night to share with you my upcoming inspiration...This is one of my favorite gold necklaces that belonged to my mother when she was my age...it's absolutely beautiful, whimsical, precious...and I'm not going to show you what it looks like just yet.... :) BUT...stay tuned...all I can wonder is...what did she put in the locket before? A secret note? Her love's picture to always remember him by? Hmm I still don't know for sure... In the meantime...bask in this month's celebration of love and appreciation...

Food coma

2012-01-26T20:57:00.001-08:00

A record week of cooking and baking for me including:
Turkey burgers
Bangers and Mash
Two dozen blueberry chocolate muffins
Chicken vegetable soup
Heirloom tomato salad
Mushroom, celery and parsley salad with lemon vinaigrette
Tomato soup
So it was only natural to draw a gentlebot picture paying homage to food today :)

Happy Chinese New Year 新年快樂

2012-01-22T20:56:00.000-08:00

Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous new year. Just a tribute to the year of the dragon :)...

I feel incredibly fortunate.

Here's a combination of a simple Bic pen black ink drawing mixed with a little digital magic.

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Get well soon

2012-01-20T15:20:00.001-08:00

Rain, snow or whatever you fancy, wintertime is here so stock up on the goodies that make you feel better.

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Wish upon a star

2012-01-18T11:07:00.000-08:00

My secret obsession is drawing the adventure of gentlebot and ladybot. They're just simple, curious, silly robots I developed ...

Staying warm last night with a crackling fire.

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New Years Part 2

2012-01-16T15:31:00.000-08:00

I love celebrating two new years almost back to back. Yup, Chinese New Year is on it's way and it's more exciting than ever with the year of the dragon. I just got back from London and it was pretty cool to see the streets littered in preparation of the new year with red and gold decorations, red envelopes, figurines, you name it, all for sale to bring good luck for the new year.

Nothing like starting off the new year with my new watercolor moleskine compliments of my wonderful bf. I'm diggin the size of the moleskine and the heavyweight paper. I always love the color of lanterns and I remember my grandma teaching me how to make ribbon lanterns out of this beautiful gold rimmed ribbon stringed with beads and bells. I'll dig up a picture later but in the meantime...voila! Lantern time :)...
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Aloha

2011-12-28T22:35:00.000-08:00

Thinking about my trip to Hawaii sometime next year...but in the meantime..prepping for cold London and Zurich...

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Lunch time sketching

2011-12-21T17:33:00.000-08:00

Quick lunch drawing today :)

Happy Holidays...

2011-12-20T22:59:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone!

No drawings for now...but a lot of baking, cooking, eating, gifting and icing..
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C is for Cookie

2011-12-15T00:21:00.000-08:00

OK, so I'm not gonna lie, I found inspiration everywhere...but I wasn't compelled to draw something yet...but it'll come later.. More importantly..I felt the NEED to cook and bake! I mean, how could I resist all the great holiday food ideas? Happy Holidays Everyone..thought I'd bake some classic sugar cookies doused with some gold and silver sheen along with some handsome gingerbread men..

These are a few of my favorite things...

2011-12-03T11:08:00.001-08:00

Christmas, cookies, wrapping, gifting, drawing...Christmas...did I mention Christmas... I love it... Here's some inspiration for my next project that I'm working on this weekend...maybe I'll get some inspiration from my holiday party tonight (e.g. mix of Tour de France and Carnival theme :)).

Hermes - Carrés’ Stories: J’aime mon carré Hobby Horse A beautiful piece of art for to wear many many ways; imagination is the only limit http://www.parismonami.com/ FILM COLOURS OF FLOWERS YELLOW Barbra Streisand- My Favorite Things I heard this on the radio yesterday on my drive home and I didn't even know it was Barbara until I heard her lovely, haunting voice in this song...it's so sultry and true to the spirit of the season...definitely bringing back memories of singing this over and over as a little girl...

Sing

2011-11-11T19:07:00.001-08:00

a sketch... I discovered a wonderful music artist the other night by the name of Priscilla Ahn I love how genuine, simple, and pure her music feels....and here story...ck it out...

Cozy

2011-11-03T21:41:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year when it's chilly and windy...and all you want to do is stay snug in your bed with a cup of hot chocolate...well that's me anyway...:) Here's a quick sketch tonight...something I haven't done in a while..inspired by the new Anthropologie catalog. I love the way their clothes are unique, luxurious but still effortless. The mix of patterns and textures are wonderful...

Dream a little dream....

2011-10-20T18:12:00.000-07:00

I don't even know the words to describe how I feel right now. I finished hanging my artwork with the amazing team yesterday in one of our fabulous cafes at work. There was a crew to help me unwrap, prep and hang my art. I call this collection 'Dream a little dream...' because this has been a year long journey, drawing weekly, collecting feedback, finding my style, to finally come up with a collection that reflects the most influential parts of my life. I've chosen 11 pieces (one more on the way) that represent different parts of my journey. Some ideas come from my mother's stories of Chinese bird cages in tea houses, to my dream of living in a castle, to fashionable funny times as a child building towers out of playing cards. These are just a few things that tickle my fancy among many other things. It's truly a dream just to share my work with the world and to hopefully conjure up some dreams along the way... Big thanks to Alice, Chris, Mike, Heather and to all the usuals Opening to come...let me know what you think or if you'd like to attend...:)

1st Art Show

2011-10-18T21:04:00.000-07:00

I am super excited to prep for my first ever art show! It's a dream of mine to actually show my art to the world but more importantly, go through the agonizing (but amazing!) process of just believing that I could even produce something worth showing. I'm so excited and feel lucky to have many good people around to help me along the yellow brick road....... I'm hanging my first experimental art pieces and I'd like to call the show 'Dream a little dream...'. Before I get to the details...I have to prep for how my art will hang, about flyers and tabs for each piece. I'm still pretty exhausted from a few long weeks and getting over some asthma issues but this should be good so just pushing through... Here goes and thanks all! Stay tuned...

Voicemail

2011-10-14T13:54:00.000-07:00

Pocket full of posies

2011-10-01T14:51:00.000-07:00

I've never received posies and never realized how delicate and beautiful they are..so I took some pictures of these jewel like miracles last week before they vanished into flower heaven!

There's so many updates I don't even know where to begin :)

I'm really excited to have my first art showing soon at Google. I have about 10 pieces of my early works and it's just so refreshing to be able to finally share this with the world. I had them all custom framed and didn't realize how much framing can make such a difference. Thanks to Michaels for the insight and doing such a good job.

I'm also excited to plan a trip to Hong Kong and China to train Wing Chun with some legends...and visit Ip Mans' memorial. I thought basketball was my ultimate calling, but the more and more I'm training, the more I feel this is a priceless gift unlike any other and I thank my father and family for supporting me through this path.

To moving forward and good stuff and things...

Forks and Fortune Cookies

2011-09-03T10:52:00.000-07:00

For all the fortunes that came true from the infamous delectable after dinner treat from Chef Chus...

Tea Bags and Takeout

2011-08-27T12:45:00.001-07:00

Excited to sell this item. I'm so happy it's the most popular piece yet
Just a twist on two classic items...

It was a relaxing time drawing this piece and here's some inspiration

Munching on some Swiss banana mallow candy..

Was watching the movie once. Definitely a good 'watch while you do art' kinda movie.

This is peachy

2011-08-25T23:44:00.000-07:00

Some inspiration tonight..I've been working on a few projects and I just love working on dense, heavyweight, watercolor paper. There's something about loading a paintbrush and splashing puddles of water on the page that produces beautiful gradients of color. I think that's my favorite part...waiting for the paint to wrestle together and create a surprising pop of color ..something surprising yet intentional.

I call this piece 'Just peachy' since it's inspired by peach blossoms known to be good luck in many asian cultures and for me, the Chinese culture. It's popular around Chinese New Year clustered in big bundles and wrapped with a vibrant red or magenta colored paper. They're also tied loosely together so they don't fall all over the place with its' goodness.

There's something fun about the 'This is Hong Kong' childrens' book that made me feel connected to this piece..which also gave me the idea... Maybe it's also the intoxicating smell of the book itself and the crisp paper which smells reminiscent of library books...(best smell!)

Inspiration Sunday

2011-08-14T19:58:00.000-07:00

photo by Trey Ratcliff

I love working on art over the weekends because that's when I can sleep in, roll around in bed for a bit...snack on something tastey and get up refreshed to create something I hopefully like. I'm preparing for some really amazing art opportunities and I can't help but feel overjoyed. My brain's still recovering from an amazing Swiss, French adventure the past month mixed with some Chinese tradition, martial arts surprises..I'm having a little bit of a creative stint with all of these ideas colliding but I just default back to keeping it simple and just trusting in the word of the fortune cookie (hehe, I love the cheese of fortune cookies and I'm convinced in its wise words...3 of my past fortunes came true..;)).

A recent inspiration came from Trey Ratcliff
who came to Google to speak about his philosophy of art and the Internet....and why he loves his craft...I couldn't agree with him more...the talk will be available soon...

Case and point

2011-07-07T17:46:00.000-07:00

Happy Traveling all...my final series of my classic suite cases....excited for my next project...stay tuned..