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Acquerello - my watercolor arts book is out in paper format and E-book format!! It's now available in my on-line book store - Ice-Cream Monster Book Store. The E-book is iPad READY!! Below are more concept paintings.

This is a piece for my own show at Hive in March. I will be the March small wall feature artist at the Hive Gallery. The art style of this painting is inspired by chinese folk arts and traditional chinese architecture design. All the decorative patterns in the paintings are chinese writings, which represent blessing, prosperity and fraternity. They are also the traditional Chinese New Year blessing.

My artwork is feature in the International Museum of Women - Economica web-site.

Top left is an on-location sketch at Descanso garden. It's also the sketch that inspired "Pawn" - the last Alice painting. I hit a creative block, after I finish 3 Alice paintings. I have plenty of ideas for the last one, but none of the ideas seem to excite me ... no enough that I want to make it into a painting. So I take a break and go to Descanso garden for a walk ... while sitting at the little stream over seeing the little bridge, an idea slowly forms in my head ...

I have a bit trouble titling this painting. This the last of the Alice in Wonderland series. The story of this painting is actually from the second book - Through the Looking Glass, where Alice is a Pawn in a chess game. Long story short, she eventually capture the Red Queen and becomes a Queen.

My iphone Artist Sketchbook just released. The title of this book is Acquerello. It's available at ArtistsSketchbooks.com. Acquerello is a digital artbook with collection of high resolution beautiful watercolor paintings and drawings by Alina Chau. This book included many of the gallery favorite pieces, which have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Orange Country, San Francisco, and Sapporo, Japan

You can also find the book at iTune store.

A concept painting for an animated feature film, The Ugly Unicorn. Painted in Photoshop. Artwork copyrighted by the studios.

Orchid: Come to think of it, did you ever see an alice?

Orchid: [sniffing Alice's hair] And no fragrance.

The top is the final version. The photo with the matte frame is the final original painting decorated with glass crystals.

BTW, I have been making some major up-dated to the Artwork section in my web-site.

I was hoping to make a new little painting for New Year, just for fun ... but so far, things have been really busy, didn't get the chance to doodle. Top is a little illo from last year, this is a gift for a friend. Below are some Battlestar Galactica stuffs I did for Technicolor, when they were doing some marketing stuffs for the show. These are some rough wall paper concept arts, which I do quickly in Photoshop. Battlestar Galactica artwork are copyrighted by the studios.