Keep6 gallery is having a show called Eco-Bag, Eco-Life which features eco friendly tote bags painted and customized by artists and designers. Here’s mine (a bit of a rushed job, but I think it turned out ok). The bags will be on sale at the gallery and will also be on tour around the world – see the gallery for details.

I just drew straight onto the bag with a HB pencil. I have been rather busy lately so I didn’t have that much time to work on this, so I decided to do something simple and funny. Oh Noz is a funny expression to me.

I painted in the colors with acrylic paint. I was wondering if I could get away with not using an outline but it didn’t really work out.

Finished adding the black outlines. The waves seemed too bare, so I decided to put in lines with a white acrylic marker.

Here’s the final bag!

India ink and gold acrylic on canvas. Was testing how ink works on canvas. Pretty good, actually.

Did this for a gallery show in Illinois. Hopefully the stuff gets there in time.

WordPress is seriously driving me crazy today. So this is kinda fitting I guess. Brush pen, india ink, watercolor and Photoshop.

Just finished this today. Below is a quick recap of what I did to paint this. ‘Chinese White’, acrylic and color pencil on wood panel. Click the continue thing below to read the whole article. (more…)

I was asked to submit some stuff to MOCHA (Mueseum of Childrens Art) in Oakland, CA, for consideration into their Once Upon a Time show. The show features art by childrens book illustrator, and the art they created when they were kids.

These are some of my really old drawings and paintings, done when I was 12-14. Though most of my early works make me cringe these days, I personally am still fond of the underwater dragons one, which is going to be in the show. More details later.

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I think I like it… and Kristal gets the original inks, so too bad if you wanted it, nyeh nyeh…..

Ok, juvenile petulance aside (ah heck, who reads this anyway), other inks are still on Etsy for sale.

The idea was about fox spirits. According to legend fox spirits who live to over a thousand years old have 9 tails and are generally benign. Before this they are tricksters who sometimes shape shift into beautiful women to tempt and mislead men.

Yeah ok so she has massively weird moo-moo lips. It’s hard to control a brush. Sketch in like 10 seconds just for general idea, hence the weirdness.

This is what happens when you work without a sketch. It looks a bit weird, but I still like her anyway. And she will crawl out of your TV and eat you like a salami sandwich if you disagree.

The callgraphy doesn’t mean anything, apart from me trying to pathetically remember what few words I managed to swallow during the 10 years of forced Chinese language class. I was always scolded for my bad handwriting. Interestingly I actually think my brush writing is not bad now, if illegible. It looks good, who cares what it says!

I want to switch over to WordPress so that I can categorize my posts! Ugh, I hate migration.