wear your dessert!

Some desserts taste so good

you might as well wear them

Churros con chocolate

so rare in Los Angeles.

Go to Churros Calientes

if you want some

Meringues...

if only they come in the size of pillows.

Pierre Herme's Ispahan:

rose macaron, Italian meringue,

raspberries, lychee,

rose petal on top.

Gateau St. Honore:

caramel coated eclairs

and whip cream

plus a little candied walnut

And by popular demand,

baklava.

So sticky.

island style

I've always wanted to draw a pinup,

but somehow never did.

Stands to reason the first one

should be special, no?

So here she is:

an island girl

for an island boy.

you can call me flower,

... I don't mind.

The artichoke is a flower, in case you didn't know. 

This is the color test... which I also kind of like.

bored. nothing to do

A patch of a color test I did for an illustration. I'll post the whole thing after I'm done with it. This cute little boy was watching me when I was painting this. I silently sent good thoughts his way: "You will grow up to be an artist! You will go to art school. Your Asian parents will ask you why!"

I did most of these in Starbucks today when I had to download something via ftp client. It took 2.5 hrs to download, which is nearly untenable enough. There were at least 3 more people in the group above but they got up so fast! Oh well. 

The next two were done while watching Escape to River Cottage, which is a British TV show about organic farming and cooking. The English farmers on the show could be shoved willy-nilly into a movie adaptation of some Dickens novel and they'll still fit right in. The host, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (the guy holding the dead bunny) has been known to eat roadkill for lunch and participates in such shenanigans as racing a wheelbarrow while dressed in a lobster costume. He's awesome. Now I wanna be a lobster for Halloween.

Well that ate a quarter of my day. The end.

oha! panda loves japan

"I cannot imagine what kind of sentiment a card made by apparatus might convey."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

teleplay written for the screen by Heidi Thomas

Well I made these cards by hand and they'll be sent through CalArts to tsunami survivor kids in Japan.

I hope it makes someone happy.

ETA: I chose to put in the photos of the watercolor because the scans of watercolors are always uniformly lame. The translucence and fine layering of color that are unique to watercolor are lost in the scan. Gah.

there will be (strawberry) blood

the truth is...

I am Iron Man.

taroko gorge

Taroko National Park, Hualien, Taiwan. September 2008.

monsters of fail