We went camping over the weekend, and saw lots of scraggly bare trees with interesting shapes. I tried out this little drawing experiment I’ve been meaning to do while perching on a rock overlooking the beautiful Ojai Valley mountains! Yes it is an ongoing obsession with tree spaces for me!
Papers and Functional Oddities at Bergamot Station
A few weeks back, I planned a trip out to Santa Monica for some supplies. It was not a trip I was looking forward to, it was raining, I had other errands to run, and the thought of the dreadful-LA-traffic-rumor-that-isn’t, amplifying as city drivers panic at any signs of wetness was quite seriously horrifying. To my surprise, my little hand …
Inspired Monday: Storytelling at 826LA
For the first of my Inspired Monday series, I am featuring an amazing local organization called 826LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center in Echo Park, LA that I discovered during the recent Citylabs event and just finished a volunteer session with-illustrating for a storytelling field trip for 2nd graders. What exactly is it that earns 826LA an Inspired Project …
Those Impatient Eager Blooms
Sometimes it feels like another world where we live, where rules are broken daily and everyone goes about life like children whose parents are away. Today, spring is early and eager young blooms explode disobediently into the world, parading fancy new skirts in the latest fashionable shade. Bright sweet oranges leap from the trees to frolic on glowing green grass, …
California Snowboarding
No it’s not an oxymoron! It’s surfboards in Malibu, skateboards in the Valley and snowboards in the mountains! And real snow, 3 feet deep from the recent rainfall and gorgeous to boot. An hour and a half north of LA, it’s a haven for snow sport enthusiasts in Southern California where everybody brings their own board, binders and boots and …
It’s raining, it’s raining
It’s been raining all week . After 8 months straight of sunny, perfect Southern California weather, the gray, moody days are a welcomed reprieve. They remind me of growing up in the tropics where the monsoon season kept perfect time, was never tardy and shook up your daily activities for weeks to come. It brought along loud clapping thunder, searing …
Boudoir for A Girlhood Passed
One of my favorite pastimes these days, is to recall my childhood fancies and attempt to bring them into some form of renewed, adult fascination while pondering on how, if any, age has changed my views, thoughts and aesthetics.
Vignettes of an Angeleno Summer
This is essentially a collection of vignettes that capture what summer coming to a close was like for us here in Los Angeles. It is both a multi-frame study and an experiment with apertures and depth of field rolled into one contact sheet adventure!
Capturing Those Beautiful Days
There are some days that, no matter how beautiful and fun-filled have inevitable qualities that render my cameras as ineffective tools. For just such times, I have resorted to capturing with a pen and a traveling watercolor kit. It makes me pay a little more attention to my surroundings so that I can remember how to reproduce them in their …
Of Memories and Art Classes
When I was growing up, I drew a lot. I spend many days on my belly, with a pile of papers and a pencil in my little fingers. Family friends gifted stacks of blank papers from the discarded corners of their lives. At school in those days, we had actual functioning art classes. We were given assignments and graded on …