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Upcoming show in Baltimore. This is the postcard for my first group show with the Hoffberger School of Painting, taking place Nov 1-11 at the Fox 3 Gallery, 1300 Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD.

Recent news

Excitement! Two pieces of recent news. Taipei Landscape 2 and Baltimore Landscape 1 are being showcased on the Brink Lit e-magazine here. AND, Taipei Landscape will be included in the upcoming one night exhibition "REpeat REspond REact" in Baltimore's Walters Art Museum, opening Oct 18. Woo!

Baltimore Landscape 2: jo jo

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6 feet by 3 feet. gouache and watercolor on paper.

Baltimore Landscape 1: jie jie

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6 feet by 3 feet, watercolor and ink on paper.

if: open

this piece is for Illustration Friday: Open, but I think its also the beginning of another painting in the Baltimore landscape series. Right now its about open space, but I like the idea of swarms of birds.

DC Landscape

I haven't posted in this blog for way too long, it seems its been almost 2 months! Although it hasn't been documented well by this blog, I've been very busy and life has been changing rapidly, from finishing studying Chinese in Taipei to moving back to Arlington with Adam and working as a graphic designer, and now for the past month I've been in Baltimore starting grad school. Hopefully from now on the posted works will be more mature, and I'm already starting to move away a little (but I'll never forget) illustration, and into Painting with a capital P. I'm still interested in arms, hands, and moons, but I'm getting more inspired by the natural world; leaves and animals. Here is the first painting I finished at MICA (started in DC), the entire painting plus two details. (I started the piece in the beginning of the summer... details of it were posted earlier) Future paintings will be less design/illustration inspired (although that element will hopefully never fully disappear!)

if: the blues

moonscape

for I.F. moon

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An older illustration from Taiwan.

Graphic Design

An invitation design for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. This is the front and back cover, with a fold in the middle.

new painting beginnings

I'm beginning another painting now that I'm in DC. At least, I think it will be a painting... right now its only pen and ink but I'm enjoying working only with lines.

Katherine's Window

children's book illustrations.

design examples

IF my paradise

goodbye for real

Goodbye to Taiwan... for real this time. I will miss the children, the Chinese, the zhen zhu nai cha, the night market, the cafes, the Taiyal tribe, everything, everything Taiwan.

if fortune

IF fortune. Click for larger.

if green

A little bit of green in a very non-green landscape.