A Group Show in Paris !

I'm very excited that I'm participating a group show atGalerie Arludikin Paris with Bill Pressing, Scott Morse, and Enrico Casarosa in June!
The show will open on June 24th and will be up through the summer till September. Though unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the opening this time,but if you're in town, please stop by the show ! and let me know what you think ^_^

Tea Time

It's been a while again since my last post...shame on me...(>-<)
the past few months I've been busy working on a few personal projects, including a new short story for the "Afterworks 3", and a group show in June !... Though I don't have the exact info of the show yet, here is a sneak peak of a painting that will be in it..
and yah.. it's a series of cats painting... (=*.*=)m



I'll be posting more paintings that I've been working for the next couple weeks. cheers!

Early Bird Painters Art Show !

It's been 6 months since I've gone out painting with other " Early Birds"!
and we're having a group show starting this week at the Studio Gallery!

the theme is center in our personal plein air paintings and sketches that are mostly done in the our early painting session- the 2 hr time between sunrise and 9am work to go paint around bay area. There will also be a few pieces of illustrations that are inspired by them.
Participating artists include Sharon Calahan, Jennifer Chang, Bill Cone, Mike Dutton, Jimmy Gutierrez, Noah Klocek, Robert Kondo, Ernesto Nemesio, Nick Sung, Enrico Casarosa, and Daisuke Tsutsumi.

Below is the info for the gallery and time. Studio Gallery is a petit boutique/gallery in the Polk st. neighborhood. If you're in town or around Polk st. for dinner on Sat., please stop by the reception, or the show will be up for 2 weeks *_*

Early Birds
plein air paintings & drawings
February 20th - March 9th, 2007
reception: Saturday, February 23rd, 4-8 pm


Studio Gallery
1718A Polk St. (between Washington and Clay)
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-931-3130 www.STUDIOGallerySF.com
Gallery hours: Wed-Fri 11-8, Sat-Sun 11-6, Mon-Tue by appt.


cheers!

Happy Lunar New Year !

Happy Rat Year !
this is also a belayed greeting for 2008!
I've been too swamped with stuff since December to post a greeting for everyone... XP
and now, the Christmas & New Year holidays have past, and it's time for the Lunar New Year ! (- Feb 7th).

the image above is the cover of a holiday card i made this year for family and friends. Now here it is for everyone ! For the 'theme' of the card this year is about having a warm relaxing holiday, I've made some bath salt tea bags to go with the cards. It was a fun process to make them, testing the bath salts myself has surely been the best part *_* .. I hope everyone had a great holiday, and having a great one !



Growing up in Taiwan, Lunar New Year ( literary translation: Spring celebration ) has always been an important holiday for me and my family. it's like celebrating Christmas and New Year for us, and it's also an once of year time for all family get together. During this time, we have a lot of good food and lots of oranges; post up poetry phrases on the front door and all over the house hold, that are written our greetings and hopes for the new year; elder generations give red envelopes, which contains new bills, to younger generations; we pray to Buddha and our ancestors to thank them for their blessing in the past, and the coming year ... the celebration usually lasts about a week. here is a wiki link that may describe more about the holiday.

Happy New Year !

Grizzly Hill view

It's been a while again since last time I post...
here is a sketch I made last week on another early morning painting session,
it's the first time I went up to the Grizzly Hill in Tilden Park,
the view on top the hill was amazingly far... I could see the ocean beyond San Francisco...


here is another sketch I made a month ago,
I was trying to use a big brush painting a small image...a very good excercise to simplify things and get the control of bush.
though I was battleing with the brush and the fast shifting sunlight at the same time... the sketch didn't came out well..(>_<)
though I thought it was a good reminder for myself, and keep me trying the approach again and agian.."f(@_@)..

Road side - Berkeley Industrial site.

Another sketch from this morning early painting session.
we went to this industrial area in Berkeley.
Lots of cool looking constructions and vehicles to sketch and paint,
but I end up choosing this corner that doesn't say so much of the place...
just thought it's a funny contrast of the bush of wildly beautiful plants growing in the middle of the industrial junks..

*Also check out "www.earlybirdpainters.blogspot.com, there are many amazing painting from the day !

"Don't you say it's too early ! "...

*Also, now we’ve just freshly setting up a blog to post & share our paintings:
www.earlybirdpainters.blogspot.com