Grace: Slanted + 3

I keep coming back to this:  flat plains, solitary trees, and distant hills.
I daydream these grassy landscapes, and at night I dream about dusty,
endless hallways/rooms. 

Red Birds and Open Cage

Out of my sketch book: pencil, pen, watercolor, and
some photoshop.

First Snow Excerpts

On and off this past year, I've been working on a large, winter themed
triptych. These two are sections from panels #1 and #2.  The third
(not seen here) is a segue into early spring, and has characters from
the story I've been working on.  You can say these are experiments
for the picture book I'm writing.  Hope you like them, and sooner than
later, I'll finish the paintings.

Green Honeycreeper

Among my stash of birds, this guy stayed the longest,
and has finally come around to finishing.
Green Honeycreeper lives in Mexico all the way down
to South America.  Their song sounds like an old fashioned,
squeaking, iron wheel.

Creative DA

 

Hello! The great people at Creative DA have included five of my pieces
for their latest show.  The show opened on July 26th in Seoul, and you
can buy the four birds (screenprints) and the landscape (hybrid screenprint +
silk screen) here.  I'm honored to be part of C/DA's great group of artists.

Chestnut-Breasted Mannikens: Hats Off

Not too common in Hawaii, and just love barley.

Sunny, Mike, and TRVT

Characters I've been working on for a picture book project.
That's Sunny to the left.

Picture Book Preview Pt. 2

Here's another piece from the picture book I'm now wrapping up.
It'll be published through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the first
quarter of 2014. The image above is part of a cover idea that we
decided not to use.  What's Robin up to?

Northern Mockingbird

Back in Studio City, Northern Mockingbird used to regularly
wake up my wife in the middle of the night.  Now on the Peninsula,
I've been seeing him everywhere along with Yellow Warblers and Red
Finches.

I'm quiet these days!  Very busy with projects, mostly the picture
book. I'll try harder to post a little more.  There's a bunch of stuff
on the back burner ready to get finished.