Katanagatari Portraits

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"If you find a job you love, you'll never work a day in your life." So instead of doing work I've been doing these, and if you're wondering what Katanagatari is, it's an anime that inspired me to do portraits in their style.

Akiho, a Japanese friend from Osaka. Tried to draw her in a cute dress she wore sometimes. Not sure she looks like herself...

This one is a self portrait- tried to take sexy librarian and silly artist and combine them. Those are supposed to be garter belt like stockings, not striped shorts. 

My step dad Don- left his shirt blank so I could put something clever onto it from one of the shirts he wear often.

Friend, Hideko, whom I met in Osaka, from India - goes to Soka University of America in Orange County, California, so i put their logo on her shirt.

Friend Keifer I met in Japan, from Florida - loves these kinds of coats.

My mom; loves to read.

This is Paul, a friend from my hometown who likes Naruto (and knives i think?), so I drew him with a sword that looked like one of the character's swords from that anime, but i think his face is not accurate at all; I especially need to change his eyes.

This is my little sister, Seri, who is a very happy person.

My bestie Brynn who wants to become a nurse- so i drew her as a sexy one since she IS sexy ;P

Great long time friend and LBGT advocate, Jasmine, going to Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California; her tie will be rainbow colored. 

Jen - a great friend and old roommate at WSU.

Another great friend/roommate/fellow student; Jessie was my roommate while Jen was in Spain.

Friend Matteo from study abroad at Kansaigaidai.


School Start Sketches

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So senior year has started, and I'm already exhausted. On the upside, I made a little time to do some creative stuff, but a majority of it has been done recently. During my stay in Anacortes after coming back from my semester in Japan I seem to have suffered major depression partly as a side effect to reverse culture shock. Thus, most of what I did was sleep, learn to crochet, and mope. Here's my recent stuff, only 3 so far, but hopefully more as the year progresses. Also, I've gotten an internship with College Hill Custom Threads doing T-shirt design work, so we might see some of that up on here, too.




Anacortes Art Festival 2012

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A local arts fair was held this past weekend in my hometown, Anacortes, WA. There were some amazing artists. Perhaps I'll get cracking on some of my own projects, however I've been under the weather emotionally and physically, and have been incredibly scatterbrained lately. Excuses, excuses.

There was Dona Reed of Friday Harbor, who does mostly hand-pulled relief prints of local animals and slightly tribal designs.





My mother and grandmother both bought clocks as gifts from David Roseburg, who has some great designs. 

Another interesting deaf artist, Tai Poon, from China did wonderful, simple Sumi-e (Chinese brush painting) pieces.





A ceramicist, David Orr, had some incredibly elaborate, sgraffito works which were appropriately priced but really out of my price range.




German artist Beate Degen had beautiful, native inspired inlaid jewelry for sale.





Miranda and Joseph Skar of Skarart have been increasingly going to more artist exhibits and fairs in the past few years with their beautiful artworks, though they might have been a little insulted that I saw some influence of the Chihuly exhibit in their works.





Port Angeles based artist Helene Cooper was displaying her handcrafted jewelry on beachwood; very awesome display. She currently does not have a website, but she can be contacted at her e-mail wstudio9k@olypen.com .


 

I was able to speak a little bit of Japanese to Kayoko Tachibana who works with his wife Nori, making hand-crafted jewelry with Japanese paper and metal.




Another artist in the fair, Val Jackson, made some birdhouses and other outdoor art pieces that caught my attention, as I had once found a tutorial on how to turn a dollhouse into a fairy house, something that had kept alive in my child-brain for quite some time. 

 



At the Anchor Art Space, before the Port Authority building where the main art show was being held, was a cardboard display with my old ceramics teacher, Chris Theiss's cardboard display. I didn't know until I read the business card that it was his work, since I thought he only did ceramics, though from a distance my mom spotted it and identified it immediately. 



After voting in the art show at the Port authority building, I got to work with artist Allen Moe of Guemes Island using some of his special guemes clay in the Experience Art walk-in/by workshops by the pier. I haven't been able to work with my mom on any art projects for a long time, so it was nice to sit and play with clay. One of his pots is also being displayed at the local hospital. One of the interesting things about his work is that the firing is very direct and not time constrained - many pieces are fired in a literal bonfire after being carefully burried under the logs.


As these are only a sampling of the artists that I personally enjoyed, I encourage anyone reading this to come to next year's art fair and experience all the wonderful local artistry for yourself. Maybe you'll come home with some awesome souvenirs, you never know.

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