I've been away working on some top secret projects and moving...but now I'm back. I've been wanting to do more portrait work, so here are a few I've been messing around with.

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I've got a piece in a show tomorrow night at Flock Shop curated by my friend and talented artist Patrick Hruby. It's from 8pm-12am in Chinatown for the Chinese New Year, which is the year of the tiger. Stop by and say hi!



here's my tiger. cut paper, paint, and colored pencils:

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I'm working on a lot of stuff right now. Here's a preview of a little something. stay tuned!

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This Friday I have six pieces in a group show at Black Maria Gallery curated by the lovely Aaron Smith. It's an all woman show and I'll be sharing the walls with some great friends and artists. Stop by and say hi from 7 - 10:30

"The Ghost of Wilhelm Reich"

a process shot of "Ghost"

"Cocooning"

"Skin Abstracts #1-#4"

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Over the holiday I spent a lot of time waiting in the airport...a perfect opportunity to get some sketching in.

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Here are some illustrations I did for the nicely designed Australian Trunk book series. This issue of the series will be about blood, and you can see the previous book about hair here. With these pieces I was thinking about stigmata and menstruation and was looking at a lot of botanical illustrations as well as this beautiful and amazing Victorian blood book. After the time spent rendering the flowers, I somehow prefer the simplicity of the silhouettes...we'll have to wait and see which ones the publishers picked.

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I hope you are having a great one!

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You can now check out the slide show for the Post It opening here. It's nice to see so many friends!

I forgot about this illustration for Celeb Life magazine. I did it ages ago and I'm still on the fence about how it came out...this is about as cartoony as I'll ever get. The article was a pretty silly and inane one about online etiquette, so I wanted it to be silly but also get the idea across.



I also did a spot for the same article, but the sketch actually looked better than the final.

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Here's today's NYT letters piece on health care reform and abortion. This sensitive subject can be quite a challenge...no pregnant bellies, fetuses, wombs...so I had to come up with something to represent the woman's health side.



here are a couple sketches. The editors requested I get rid of the oval because it looked too much like a womb.

Also congrats to Aviva Michaelov on her new position at the Op-Ed, and good luck to Leanne Shapton on the next stage of her career. They are both great to work with!

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This Saturday is the Post-It Show at Giant Robot, curated by the lovely Esther Pearl Watson and fantastic Mark Todd. I have 30 pieces in this show, starting at $20!



here's a sampling of my haunted house post-its:

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Here's my sketch and final illo from today's New York Times letters page, which is about how to finance food aid for the needy. You can read the letters here. They lightened up the image from the original, which looking at it now was a good idea since the newspaper always prints a little darker.

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Saturday night is the one night only show for my limited edition lamp. Stop by and say hi from 5-11pm in Culver City at the Helms Bakery Building.

I have a limited edition lamp for sale here for a one night show later this month. You can pre-order the lamps right now, and a portion of the sale goes to inner city art education here in LA!

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Here are some photos from the Altered States book exhibit, thanks to my dad for the pics.

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