Awa Odori dancers: Japanese Obon festival

I created this piece for the "Grace and Ritual" show that opened this weekend at the I am 8 bit gallery on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles. I chose this subject matter because the Japanese dance was so graceful, and it is a yearly ritual preformed in the Shikoku region. The color and style inspiration come from Japanese wood block prints. The piece is in a black box frame that measures 18Wx24Hx3D. Materials used: Acid free water color paper, acid free Bristol paper, Japanese washi paper, ink, acrylic artist ink, and good old Elmer's glue.

Scooter study

European Buildings built out of paper

SPAIN- Sangrada Familia designed by one of my favorite architects Antoni Gaudi

ENGLAND- Big Ben clock tower in London

FRANCE- Eiffel Tower in Paris

ITALY- Leaning Tower of Pisa

IRELAND- Dublin Castle

TWIN PEAKS GROUP SHOW in Santa Monica California

The Copro Gallery- Bergamont station is presenting "Twin Peaks:Fire Walk with Me" 20th anniversary group art exhibition April 21-May 12 2012.

This is the piece I created showing 5 very memorable characters from the series.
from left to right: Log Lady, Audrey Horne, Dead Laura Palmer, Little Man From Another Place, and Agent Cooper.

For Gabby and her baby

Flip her belly up to reveal the baby brewing inside of her.

Breath of Embers:Art of Dragons Gallery Nucleus

The Dragon art show is this Saturday October 8th at Gallery Nucleus

This is the piece I made for the show. It is inspired by a Norwegian dragon myth.

I found the story on the website Draconika.com
"Like St. George and the Dragon, many other stories have been told about dragons and the heroes who kill them. One story like this comes from Norway. The king left his daughter in the castle while he went away on a long trip. He left her a tiny dragon to be her guardian. The princess was skeptical of the tiny creatures, fearing that it could not protect her. However, the dragon soon grew into a large monster. He soon became too good of a guardian for the princess when he grew large enough to wrap his body all around the castle and not let anyone in or out of it. When the king returned home, even he was not permitted inside the castle. The only thing to do was to kill this dragon, so the king offered his the marriage of his daughter to anyone who could kill this dragon. No man in Norway was capable, but a man in Sweden finally killed the beast. As his reward he married the princess and they returned to Sweden together."

This piece measures 17x21x4 and is in a box frame that opens from the front.

"PUSH PAPER" book release

Illustrator Jamie Zollars collaborated with Lark publishing to create this wonderful book that exhibits paper art from 30 international artist.

I love the layout of this book!
1. Really cool cover (continuing the theme of past books from the "PUSH" series)

2. Very clear table of contents that allows you to quickly flip to the various artist.

3. She picked a very diverse group of paper artist. It is great to see the versatility of paper techniques and design. Here are just a few of the artist that I really like in this book:

Will post more of these paper artists from book in near future.

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UPDATED WEBSITE!

Thanks to friend and computer wiz Johnny Byrnes, MEGANBRAIN.COM can now be viewed on iPhones and iPads! I also updated the gallery adding a "New Work" and a "Commercial Work" section. I decided not to have a store on my site, but aim to have an Etsy site set up by the end of the year. An Etsy link will be added when I get around to doing some new work, and figure out what to make prints of.

I also want to credit my friend Ariana Murray who designed and constructed my site back in 2005. She is a sweet multi talented lady. Great visual artist and fabulous musician. I recommend hiring both of these guys.

Bob Logan's Blog

Bob works at Dreamworks and is a friend of my husbands. We were dorking out over his blog tonight and I think others should do the same. Bob Logan's illustrations

Japanese Paper Man

These were created for a project I worked on back in December of 2010.

Samuri

Samuri Helmet Detail

Karate Gi- Anime inspired hair

Mad Eye Moody- HARRY POTTER TRIBUTE EXHIBITION

The show is at Gallery Nucleus on July 9th 2011. Mad Eye is going for $600.

I made a paper version of "Mad Eye Moody"--the character that actor Brendan Gleeson plays in the Harry Potter films. He has such an interesting face, and I liked the idea of creating a scruffy character.

A little optical trick.

Reference and inspiration material.

PAPER CRAFT 2

The German publisher Gestalten released their second "Paper Craft" book in March 2011. I'm a big fan of the first book so it was wonderful to be asked to submit images for their second book.

Gestalten did a wonderful job finding a wide variety of artist currently using paper as an artistic medium. It is very inspirational to see the variety styles and techniques being used around the world. I'm going to go through the book and post some of the paper art that I'm most excited about. And by "most excited" I mean "I wish I made this and I'm jealous that I didn't" :)

They included my images in the"Reality Reimagined" chapter.

This book can be purchased from Amazon

Cinderella's Fairy Tale Hall -Tokyo Disneyland

This piece is part of the newly opened "Cinderella's Fairy Tale Hall". It is a walk through exhibit inside the castle at the Tokyo park.

I was commissioned by the Imagineering division to create a paper sculpture diorama from the Cinderella tale. They specifically assigned me the moment when the prince sees Cinderella for the first time as she arrives to the grand ball.

The interior case measures approximately 30 inch tall, 22 inches across, and 14 inches deep.

The color scheme for the ballroom is taken from the movie...PINK PINK PINK in all of it's various tints, shades, and tones. Having a predominantly warm color worked out well. Cinderella is the only one in a cool blue tone. The other ballroom ladies are in warm monochromatic colors so they blended into the background and are secondary in importance.

The various dress designs on the ladies are inspired by drawings of old Victorian fashions.

This is a picture of the portion of the walk through with the various diorama scenes from the film. Each scene was created in a different medium by a different artist--wood, metal, glass, acrylic, porcelain, and paper. It was a really challenging and fun project to work on. I hope to see it in person at the park one day.

NORTHWEST AMERICAN INDIAN TOTEM PROJECT

This was a personal commission created for friends Anette and Jon. The heart part of the totem represents their love, 2005 commemorates the year they met, and then I stylized their initials "A & J".

INSPIRATION AND REFERENCE MATERIAL

New Yuki 7 book! Summer 2011

KEVIN DART AND ELIZABETH ITO are going to release the second YUKI 7 book this summer! I saw a sneak peak and it looks wonderful. A majority of the art was created by Kevin Dart and the story was written by his wife Elizabeth. The book also features work of guest artist.

Here is the piece I contributed to the book:

This is an early version of the piece. Yuki is a secret agent trapped in a snake pit. Her friend, agent Lotus, is trying to pull her out to safety.