MOCCA Art Festival FUN! Thank You!

Thank you for coming by my table last weekend, it was great to see many familiar faces and also meeting some amazing new people/artists. This was my first MOCCA, I have been doing other festivals past years but I truly think MOCCA is very special!  I think Society of Illustrators did a great job putting together, thank you SI and volunteer team!
I didn’t have much time walking around to take some photos but here are some that I have and some of my studiomates photos!

Charlie Brown!!! Mascot of MOCCA, he will be part of the Macy’s easter parade this year. I was happy that our studio’s booth was right below!!!
(Photo by Diana Di Nazzo)   Here is my booth! Our studio had 4 tables this year.
Close ups of my booth. Lots of small books and sculptures this year not to forget Zombi cat Cookies!!!

Here are our whole 4 table run down :-)  (All the photos are by Joel Alter)
Everyone had super successful MOCCA!!!

Here are some visitors photos!
I wish I took more :-(
Cutest visitors were those 4 ladies!!! FIT Master program had it’s own table this year!  (I wish I took photos of that but here is a photo of a proud students who were selling out on their books! Good job :-))Met One of my favorite artist Ciou finally after we were in a same show 10 years ago! We exchanged the books like soccer player exchange their uniform!!! ;-)

Thank YOUUUUUU for the great experience! It was a happy weekend for me.

p.s.
Here is a photo from our studio after party. We have done it! YEY!

MOCCA FESTIVAL this weekend!

Hello!
This weekend is MOCCA Art Festival in NYC.
I have a table selling new books, prints, surprise sculpture boxes, and cat&dog cookies! Please come and visit!
You can see the direction and more info about the festival here—> click

Here is some sneak preview!
Double thank you for Kimiko and Fumiha for helping me bake!!!!!

Nap time YEA!

Little sneak preview for a tiny book and tiny sculpture I’m working on now.

“Nap time! what do you want to sleep on little cats and dogs???”
“On this Miss,  Nap time YEAAAA!”

Sketches and tiny clay shapes

Painting tiny faces with gouache

Working on the drawing part of the book

My cat use to do this impossible pose!

“Always Me!~illustrators in their own eyes” Dopress Books

A new book featuring illustrators across the globe by Cypi Press.  I have few pages in it.  My good friends and fantastic illustrators Marcos Chin and Yoko Furusho are in this book as well.  So I’m really happy and proud!!! WooHoo!!!

A Decade of New Prints by IPCNY

I’m part of the 30 Artists post card book call “A Decade of New Prints” published by International Print Center of New York.
I’m very excited and honored.
Thank you IPCNY!

A Decade of New Prints: A Book of Postcards Ranging from abstract to conceptual, from figurative and representational to surreal, the 30 prints included in this postcard book document the variety of style and subject matter and the technical excellence of artists working in the printmaking medium. Chosen from over 3,000 prints exhibited at IPCNY through our New Prints Program, these prints offer a snapshot of printmaking today. On sale in the gallery for $12.95 + tax during Print Week or for pre-order online. Contact stephanie@ipcny.org for more information. All sales benefit IPCNY programming. Artists included:  John Baldessari Matthew Benedict Richard Bosman Louise Bourgeois Victoria Burge Suzanne Caporael Enrique Chagoya Tamar Cohen Gary Day Tomory Dodge Luke Dorman Carroll Dunham Amze Emmons Kota Ezawa Torrie Groening  Don Ed Hardy Al Held John Himmelfarb Jungil Hong Aya Kakeda Alex Katz William Kentridge Robert Kushner Chris Martin Julie Mehretu Heidi Neilson Ruth Root James Siena Barbara Takenaga William Villalongo

Interview with dpi Magazine Taiwan

Hello!
I got an exciting mail today from Taiwan.
I was interviewed by dpi Magazine (illustration/design magazine) while back and now it’s out!!! Thank you dpi!
If you live in Taiwan please pick up a copy ;-)

TCAF May 11th &12th , Booth 235

I will be at Toronto Comic Art Festival this weekend!
Please come by and say hello if you are in Toronto.

Book of tea delivery bear

This is a little pouch of Japanese seaweeds and fish flakes for rice that my mom sent me.  I love the packaging so much, I was thinking hmmm… how to use this beautiful packaging and turn into something special.
So it turned into a little book!
It’s an accordion book about “Tea delivery bear”
Here is the story!
This is the “tea delivery bear” he is carrying a box of tea.
He travel through the forest
On a ship across the ocean
Through Mt.Fuji
To a little lady’s house
The end!