Gallery Room @ Better Than Jam

Better than Jam Pop-Up Shop on Governor's Island consisted of two apartments. One was designated for kids stuff and clothing, the other was for t-shirts, jewelry, and two rooms serving as gallery space for art. Here are some photos of my oil painting hanging on the wall of one of the rooms.

Pinnochio Inspired Paintings

I did a small series of 3 paintings based on Buratino, the Russian version of the Pinnochio. Buratino was published in 1936 by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, after Carlo Collodi's Pinnochio. The main characters are Buratino, Malvina, and Pierrot.

"Buratino"

Oil and Graphite on Canvas

12x12

Buratino is a long nosed wooden puppet carved by Papa Carlo. This one is actually more closely related to Pinnochio than the actual Butratino. I chose to do this version because it's more contrasting, Buratino's tones were too similar to Malvina's.

"Malvina"

Oil and Graphite on Canvas

12x12

Malvina is a beautiful blue haired girl puppet. She is sarcastic and unfazed, but a loyal friend. 

She has a pet poodle names Artemon.

"Peirrot"

Oil and Graphite on Canvas

12x12

Pierrot is a sad looking puppet who is also a poet and madly in love with Malvina.

Magnets are here.

Yay!!! I was so excited to come home today to a little package by my door from PureButtons. My magnets are here. I ordered only 2 designs of my mushrooms, my "Wild Thing" and "Autumn Dawn". I wanted to test out how they look and I must say they are too adorable. The magnets are 1.5x1.5 inch square, perfect size from my original 6x6 canvas paintings, so I didn't have to crop anything.

 I'm kinda tempted to fill up my entire fridge with them. That won't be too ridiculous, would it?

More Shrooms

Another little shroom is born. Say hello to NIGHT FALL .

Night Fall

6x6

Oil paints, graphite.

The little fellow spends all his free time playing in the leaves, usually around night time. Just look at that big smile. Such simple times when we were kids and playing in the leaves was so much fun, except my curfew was at sundown.

The painting is done is oil and graphite on canvas measuring 6x6x2. I love working on smaller scale canvas. I feel like I have more control over details and it's easier to keep proportions in check.

Available as a giclee print at my Etsy shop. Be sure to stop by and check it out.

Wild Shrooms

 

My series of mushroom creatures started with these three little guys I did for the Charming Gallery in NYC. They were on display last year. Since then, my love for all things shrooms grew and now I have about a dozen shroom painting I'm trying to finish.I don't remember exactly how the idea came about. It might have been after attending the Tim Burton exhibit at the MoMA( which was mind blowing by the way) and remembering the old Alice in Wonderland cartoon with the talking flowers in the garden.

"Wild Thing"

Oil and Graphite on Canvas

6x6 in

"Autumn Dawn"

Oil and Graphite on Canvas

6x6 in

"Foliage"

Oil and Graphite on Canvas

6x6 in

Summer Melancholy

"Summer Melancholy"

Oil, Graphite, Pastel

Wood panel

One of my first paintings on a wood panel. I was experimenting with color washes on wood. And I must admit, painting on wood surface is a luxury. The paints glide on so much smoother. The end result is soft, subtle and dreamy.

So apparently, this is almost a self portrait (although I didn't meant for it to be that). A lot of my friends have commented that it looks like me, not sure if I agree. Then again, I suppose many artist paint themselves into their work. Take Leonardo de Vinci's "Mona Lisa" that has been speculated to be his own self portrait by some historians.