Thank you Nickelodeon + Krew of Korra

Last Friday was the end of my Internship at Nickelodeon.. bittersweet end. The Krew at Korra has been nothing but fabulous. I worked on a thank you card for the Krew with my fellow intern,Tiffany Chiu who started with the sketch and I finished it up with paint in PS.

Clothed Figure Painting

i felt accomplished after today's oil painting class.. so i thought i should share :)

Exhibit @ Union Sq

last weekend i was invited by Ria Foundation to display my work for Hopes & Dreams Art Exhibition @ Union Square. LOVELY!! My first themed exhibition in the heart of san francisco :))) 

Thank you Anthony and Andrea. 

together with my friends, elba and her husband roberto and their work, we enjoyed awesome weather and ice-cream with the tourists @ union sq

fly me away

digital sketch with painter
expectations are tough to keep up with...

midterm madness

yikes! i'm drowning in paints, sleeping in paints, eating paints...here's a glimpse of my progress for figure studio's midterm, i'm only on stage 2 out of 458 >_<

prepping the wood canvas took awhile, laid layers of matte medium and a thin coat of clear gesso. This is by far the biggest canvas i've worked on with oils, 30x24
and that's not even the challenge!
natural lighting, you confuse me!blocking out the figure

laying basic colors

my assistant

more oils

started another new session in class but i just can't get pass the ala prima stage in painting. why?
bad picture quality too, i blame the iPhone ;)

oil on wood panel 16x20

edie for vogue

WIP portrait assignment for a narrative illustration class. i decided to pick edie sedgwick, the poor little rich girl as the subject, played up with secondary images of the men in her life in the 60s. now it's time to put some paints down!

sketch on wood panel 9 x 12

I'm finally smelling turpentine in my nostrils!

HOORAY! I'm finally get to take a class from the master, ZhaoMing Wu! It has been couple of years since I had turp in my nostrils... I'm out of practice :( but hopefully I'll be able to produce better work at the end of this year!

basic sketch

blocking out the forms

at the end of the 1 1/2 session pose
hardboard panel 16x20

oh, FYI, I had to use a limited palette for this session.. FUN!

quickstudy landscapes

these were done years ago in Craig Nelson's quickstudies painting class.. we went somewhere across the bridge to paint. all i could remember from the trip was that it was COLD!!

oil on 5 x7 masoniteoil on 5 x7 masonite

this was a homework piece

believe in me

if not im leaving!this was done out of frustration after getting off work as a 'flash generator', pretty much officially my first try in DI. I didn't go to art school togo back to do what i did 6 years ago. digital painting may not be my forte but i will prove to all who don't believe that i can do it.. WRONG!

seasons

time is passing me by soo fast!! this was a painting i did in fall... and i'm only positing it now... whoops!

thoughts

this sketch by far is one of my favorite, I had to tilt the board diagonally while painting to achieve the vertical composition. with this painting I'm trying to move out of my comfort zone of my usual palette... it's gonna be another fun project!
oh yeah... i like to paint red noses... don't ask me why.

acrylic on wood 16 x 20

busy

School has started and lots have been going for me since the start of 2008, did lots of travelling and visits from friends and family. Besides helping Kazu Sano out in his painting class I'm currently taking a visual development class with Robert Kondo. Will post those work soon....

acrylic on canvas 8 x 11

honey bunny

here's a glimpse of a painting i hope i would be able to complete soon..

sketch on 30 x 30 wood

a closeup

rosie

a friend and awesome model =)
hope & uncertainty...
only 2 more weeks before my life as a student ends....

I'm experimenting with layering matt gel medium lately for a peek-a-boo effect of the wood texture.. any experts out there?

18 x 16 acrylic on wood

jon

im back! school has been alil' crazy lately =/
the model for my painting class had an astonishing diva attitude, that gave me inspiration for this piece... so this is Mister Jetsen as a she ;)

acrylic on wood 16 x 18

meow

after visiting Antiques by the Bay over the weekend, im totally hyped up! This is my in-class painting and tribute to Vargas Girls =)
! can't wait to finish this @_@ !

acrylic on wood 18 x 16

i-need-a-break

in-class painting... as you can see there's still quite abit more work to go.
I'm learning to smooth out my brushstrokes on this piece.

acrylic on wood 16 x 18

claudio

another in-class painting.. i was feeling alittle frustrated hence the strokes.

acrylic on wood 16 x 18

purple

midterm painting for Kazu's class which he wasn't keen on so...
here's a glimpse before it gets cover up...

acrylic on wood 18 x 20