Group Show at Cotton Candy Machine in NY — July 7th

Hello!
I have 3 ceramic pieces for Tara’s gallery Cotton Candy Machine.
This show is crazy!!!  Please look at the line ups of the artists!
They are many many great artists (that I’m a fan of), and do you know what’s crazier? All the works will be sold for $100!!!
Super Deal!!!

Tiny Trifecta
2nd Annual Group Show: Curated by Tara McPherson
July 7th to August 5th, 2012
Opening Event Saturday July 7th, 7 to 11pm
Pre Registration begins at 4pm
at Cotton Candy Machine Gallery

Featuring THREE tiny pieces of $100 art from each artist!

Jessicka Addams, Aiko, Jim Avignon, John Baizley, Shawn Barber, Andrew Bell, Robert Bowen, Jon Burgerman, Zoe Byland, Ciou, Becky Cloonan, David M Cook, Dave Cooper, Dave Correia, Molly Crabapple, Lana Crooks, Steven Daily, Daniel Danger, Tristan Eaton, Camilla d’Errico, Brian Ewing, Natalia Fabia, PJay Fidler, AJ Fosik, Doze Green, Dan Grzeca, Fred Harper, Jason Holley, Thomas Hooper, Jim Houser, Seldon Hunt, Jeremy Hush, Jordin Isip, JK5, James Jean, Jeremyville, Nathan Jurevicius, Aya Kakeda, Audrey Kawasaki, Josh Keyes, Henry Lewis, Lola, David Mack, Jim Mahfood, Sara Antoinette Martin, Dan May, Tara McPherson, Brandi Milne, Junko Mizuno, Buff Monster, Tomi Monstre, Michael Motorcycle, Martin Ontiveros, Alex Pardee, Joshua Petker, London Police, Anthony Pontius, Martha Rich, Jermaine Rogers, Paul Romano, Arik Roper, Jay Ryan, Souther Salazar, Isabel Samaras, Erik Mark Sandberg, Jon Schnepp, Shawnimal, Greg Simkins, Skinner, Bwana, Spoons, Jeff Soto, Timba Smits, Diana Sudyka, Lamour Supreme, Fefe Talavera, Jill Thompson, Miss Van, Adam Wallacavage, Lindsey Way, John Wayshack, Eric White, and Chet Zar.

These are my 3 pieces.

Waking Up in a Tutti Frutti Hat

Hello!
I’m curating a show in July in CA.
Please stop by if you are in Monterrey area!

It will be a great show with eight artists who I really respect.
All of their art has whimsical, colorful and Dream like quality which can transport people right into their surreal world.

The title of this show came from one of my favorite movie The Gang’s All Here, a surreal and colorful striking images which I think fits really well with those 8 artist’s works.

“Waking up in a tutti frutti hat”
Book Show curated by Aya Kakeda
July 13 – Aug 7th
at  The Alternative Cafe Gallery , Monterrey CA

Artists:
Fumiha Tanaka,  Jen Tong, Nathan Fox, Matthew Thurber,
Nora Krug,  Panayiotis Terzis, Patrick Dorian, Tomi Um

StumpTown Comic Festival this weekend!

Hi Everyone!
I will be a part of StumpTown Comic Festival this weekend in Portland Oregon.
I’m bringing all my hand made books that I’ve been working on at the silkscreen studio since January and also some hand made products!

I have a booth sharing it with Sara Varon and Jen Tong. Two of my favorite comic artists!
So come down and say hello to us!!!

The 9th Annual Stumptown Comics Fest
April 28 & 29, 2012 • Oregon Convention Center
Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-6 • Buy Tickets Now! at TicketsWest

More info: http://www.stumptowncomics.com/comics-fest/

Here are some toto bags that I made for the festival!
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Front image is two Kokeshi chan
And the back is mixed and match Kokeshi chan.

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Print Shop Today

Busy day at Print shop today.
I did a drawing on a blank note book and I wanted to make it in color by silkscreen. It was so hard because the book wasn’t flat. but eventually I got it.
fewwww there is always something new to learn.
Original Drawing

Silkscreen Version, the color is hard to tell in the photo but it’s a nice hot pink in real life.

Also the project that I was putting off from January…I finally printed out the cover of my new accordion book “Snow Day.”

Starting out with white.
Front and the back cover. second color black.
I like how it came out! Looks like a wall paper all together.
Last color, only the front cover has gradation snow pattern. There are pink version and purple version.

Long Long day but productive, covered in paint.

Printing cover for mini books!

I’ve bee posting about ceramic studio but realized I didn’t post any image from my silkscreen studio!
I’ve been preparing mini books, posters, and comics for stump town comic festival coming up in the end of this month.
http://www.stumptowncomics.com/comics-fest/
Here are some photos of mini books that I’m working on right now.
They are book covers.

(First print/ white )

(Second Print/ Egg plant color)
(And last color/ red)

(And here is some system that I came up for printing this book cover. Registration was very easy doing this)

Voila! I’m done!
I really like them as a group looks kind of like a chocolate! Oh that would be my dream to print on Chocolate!

Drawing Diary “Mysterious Land” — Feb 25th, 2012

Look what I found in my mail box today!

After long day of silkscreening I came home pretty tired, but as soon as I found this in my mailbox I was so happy!
It’s  a book call “Asian Illustrators” by Monsa published from Barcelona, Spain.
Book Features 17 illustrators from all over Asia and I’m one of the artists. yappy~!!!  Thank you Monsa!

Here are some pictures from inside of the book. (I should scan it…these photos are taken by my camera phone… they are in such a terrible quality… )
Here is the Monsa website where you can get this book—>
http://monsashop.com/es/ilustracion-y-arte-urbano/237-asian-illustrators.html

Jet Lag Monster Part 1