Sketches from the land of OZ!

These sketches are drawn this past Sunday, when I accidentally get blow away by a wicked wind and landed in the land of OZ!! Err ... OK ... may be not it's not REALLY that dramatic ... but I sure feel like Dorothy, when I stand in the middle of the Mojave Desert Grassland seeing bright orange poppies covering all the hills and flat lands!! The view is simply stunning!!

BTW, I would love to invite you all to my up-coming gallery show at Hive.

Come one, come all to MAYhem at The Hive!
OPENING party: MAY 1, 2010
8pm-12:30am

(show will run from may 1-may 29, 2010)

729 South Spring street
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Also, I just found out Hive Gallery write a special blog post about my artworks. I feel very flattered and honored. They have so many wonderful artists, I am very grateful for their compliments. I especially want to thank their King Bee Nathan for giving me the opportunity to present my works at their gallery!! Thank you Nathan!! You ROCK!!

UCLA Japanese Garden

Been very busy lately, didn't get to sketch much. These are more pages for the Sketchbook Project. Err ... top is my home not the garden. LOL

Almost forget, I just have a new podcast episode up on-line!! Please come and check it out!!

Eames house!!

I have a wonderful inspiring day visiting the famous designers, Eames' house in Pacific Palisades. Overall today is a good day. After the tour to the house, I went to visit Eames Office in Santa Monica, and end the day visiting one of Frank Lloyd Wright's house, Hollyhock house in Hollywood. Unlike the Eames house, this is house design for a client, not the architect's resident.

Hidden corner in downtown LA

After living in LA for over ten years, this city never ceases to surprise me. I was walking along Broadway cross 7th street the other day, and discover this cute little side street - St Vincent Court. The place looks like a page from a cartoony European illustration. I enjoy my first visit at St Vincent Court so much, I go back to again yesterday and bring my friend along. We eat at Tulip Cafe, very delicious and relatively inexpensive food for its high quality. I have a big plate of salmon seafood dish for only 13.99. It comes with a tasty plate of salad on the side too!!

The top piece is drawn at Venice beach ... approximately during the time, when we have the 7.2 earthquake ... we didn't feel the quake. One of my friends learn about the quake from his phone's earthquake app. I didn't know smart phone come with an Earthquake app ... I guess it's not a bad idea to have an earthquake app, if you live in a quake religion. I just install the app in my phone too. And the left sketch is a "Veto" drawing ... from the Descanso Garden day. HE! HE!!

Easter weekends at the garden!

More pages from the Sketchbook Project. A lovely day at Descanso Gardens. It's so gorgeous right now with most of the flowers blooming!! The place is like an explosion of color!!

Dear all,

I would love to invite you to my up-coming group show.

“Six Legged Freaks" BUG SHOW - Group Show
Location: Cactus Gallery
Opening reception: Sat, April 10, 2010 7-10pm
Show run: April 10, 2010 - May 5, 2010

Reception coincides with the area's artwalk :: NELAart.org's
Second Saturday Gallery Night is Saturday, April 10, 2010 :: 7-10p
- More info and map :: http://www.nelaart.com/

*** NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night is a free self-guided tour of the galleries, non-profits and artist run project spaces located in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA). NELA has a tradition in the arts that dates back to the early 1900's when the USC College of Fine Arts was located in Highland Park and characters like Charles Lummis and Antonio Corsi were living in the area. The tradition continues with new spaces opening regularly. NELA is now one of L.A.'s most exciting destinations to view contemporary art.

Quack! Quack!!

More from the Sketchbook Project!! Part of this project is to keep good documentation of the little book, so I try to take pictures of the location and scan in every single pages!!


Don't let the fat juicy appearance of the ducks deceive you ... they can run quite fast!! I try to catch one ... *just for fun, not for food* ... and I can't even get close!! Must try harder next time!! HE! HE!!