Jim

April 2011

Thank you for being such a great, though elusive friend, friend.

I ♥ LA

November 2006

This is a 'memory map' I think I doodled for my very first design studio five years ago. It is certainly unfinished, inaccurate and unfairly skewed toward Hollywood - the LA that all outsiders seem to envision when thinking of Los Angeles, but I find it fitting that I see all of its flaws after five years of architecture school and can still appreciate it at face value, regardless.

well why not

August 24, 2010

I didn't put these up because I find it lame that the only time I stretch the sketching/doodling muscles is when I send someone a thank-you note! But since any amount of exercise is better than NONE, here they are.

gamboling

July 11, 2010

A speedy drawing of my dogs. Fastest I ever whipped something up, well almost. I like how BB on the left looks but I overdid Max's face on the right. And I still have much to learn about rendering Westies well!

nasturtium

June 21, 2010

Happy Summer! Here is a drawing of a nasturtium from my backyard.

for the tastebuds

I didn't know how to utilize a handful of 2"x3" canvases I had, and then images of my favorite hot sauces, and consequently my favorite beer popped up in my mind and demanded to come to life. So in between the outer space paintings I would paint one or two. Painting tiny is painstakingly difficult. 2"x3" is pointless!

I want to live in outer space.

June 7-13, 2010

Blank canvases piled up and gathering dust in my room, extra free time with the arrival of summer, as well as constant stimulation and inspiration from my computer's rotating backgrounds of images compiled from years of archived shots from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day prompted me to sit down and try to capture the depth, the lights and darks and the overall awesomeness of the things astronomers spot in the night sky. These aren't so much creative endeavors, but more of a series to improve my technique, my eye for color and my brushwork.

send me artichokes

May 11, 2010

My mom came back home one morning last month with artichokes from her friend's backyard! After being obsessed with them all spring, my love for them has still not wavered. They are beautiful and delicious.

my friends in their rooms - 2

May 5, 2010

my friends in their rooms - 1

May 5, 2010

I find private dwellings, especially the ones of a few good friends, utterly fascinating, because a person's room can tell so much about the occupant. For these if I'm lucky to have some reference photos on hand, they're based off that, otherwise I make things up. Roughly 50% real, 50% imagined.