Archive for January, 2009

Extreme pencil geekery – part 2

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Here’s the second part of the puzzle of extreme pencil nerdiness, came in the mail today, just in time for my trip! It’s a Kuru Toga mechanical pencil by Uni with an auto sharpening mechanism that rotates the lead as you draw or write with it. Pretty nifty and yes pretty geeky, they are also [...]

Tadahiro on Coraline

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Yay! A nice interview with our good friend Tadahiro Uesugi at AWN.com. And look at those amazing pieces he did for Coraline! Beautiful! I can’t believe we are gonna be hanging out with him and his lovely wife Kuro San in Paris in just a day or two. Ronnie and I are packing our bags [...]

extreme pencil geekery – part 1

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Got myself some Mitsubishi Hi-Uni this past weekend. If you’re a pencil geek too, you’ll enjoy this amazingly in depth review, more like a full on test drive, of the highest quality pencils in the world.

Drawing foxes

Friday, January 16th, 2009

She’s drawing foxes … like me … at weird hours in the night. Though I draw them on my kitchen table. So here’s one more watercolor from the exhibition at Galerie Arludik (Click on the image at that link to see some of the amazing pieces by Tadahiro and Ronnie). If you want to see [...]

We have a poster!

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Here it is! The “Affiche” that you might spot around Paris announcing our exhibition! Ronnie, Tadahiro and I can’t wait to be at Arludik Galerie for the opening. As I’ve mentioned previously, we are also going to be at the Festival International de la Bandes Dessinée in Angouleme from January 29th to February 1st. We’ll [...]

21st WWSketchCrawl

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

What a great sketchcrawl this past saturday! It was hands down the most attended with artists participating and gathering in more than 90 different locations around the globe. Don’t miss checking out all the drawings on the forums! It really still blows my mind that on these days we are soo many around the world [...]

The magic fox of Kyoto

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Another watercolor for the artshow. Inspired by photos of Kyoto and Japanese woodblock prints. It’s getting framed in Paris probably around now.

the other fox

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

One more watercolor for the “森 3 trees make a forest” exhibition at Galerie Arludik on January 27th in Paris.

World Wide SketchCrawl 21

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

This saturday, January 10th, it’s the 21st global drawing marathon and people around the world are joining in to sketch around their towns and cities. We have right now an amazing 77 different locations around the world with artists meeting and drawing. Stockholm, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle, London, Milano, Houston, Brisbane, Shanghai, Dublin, Rome, [...]

What did you just say?

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

She means business, watch out. The iphone with toycamera can be fun, but my canon Xsi is certainly a whole other thing.