GR's Biennele 3 @ JANM

Gary, Rudy, Sunny, and I met up in Japan Town LA for the Giant Robot's Biennele 3 exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum. We stopped by Japanese Village and got some snacks, then head to the museum. They served a bunch of tasty food at the museum since it's the opening night. I got to try a grape infused tea that was super tasty too. The bottom floor displayed a lot of modified plastic and vinyl toys by many many artists.
The top floor featured artworks by Rob Sato, Ako Castuera, Deth P. Sun, Sean Chao, Eishi Takaoka, Saelee Oh, Albert Reyes, and Zach gage. Truthfully, I'm not familiar with any of these artists except for Deth P. Sun. I saw his works on a newstand that was for Jonathan Gold's breakfast event and it caught my eye. I was thinking "how cute!", then I went to look up his name afterwards lol. Sunny was a big fan of Rob Sato's work. He's super skilled and very very detailed. I'm more of a fan of Sean Chao and Deth P. Sun though hehe. Maybe because there are a lot of cats in their art and I'm a crazy cat lady! >;p

Sean Chao's sculptures
Deth P. Sun's artworks
Wall mural, Rob Sato's sketchbooks, Ako Castuera's painting.
Ako Castuera's sculpture, Catburger Land, and motion activated thought bubbles.

Gifts from FSc

A whole bunch of cute things!
FSc sent me some awesome gifts again. She's so sweet. Look at all these goodies! The most awesome thing has to be her hand-painted headphone wire wrap. Look how cute thing thing is!
headphone wire winder
She even included something for my cats. Sherlock knew right away and took off with the package that has a cat doodle on it.
Sherlock sniffing his gift
This totally made my day :D. I feel so loved! <3 <3

Sketching Trip @ The Switzer fall

My teacher organized another outdoor sketching trip to The Switzer fall area. I had just recovered from food poisoning a week ago, and decided that an outdoor sketching trip would be a good thing, so I decided to join them. The group is smaller than usual this time, but it's probably because the weather forecast kept saying that it's supposed to be one of the hottest day in September ever. I packed a lot of drinks and food, so my bags actually had 1/3 art supplies and 2/3 water and food lol.
Drawing outdoors is so hard. It's difficult to find a good spot to sit and my butt would hurt because we tend to end up sitting on rocks and things. Then there are bugs crawling up my legs or ants attacking me. The sun usually would creep up on my paper and shine super brightly, bouncing the light off of the white sheets, hurting my eyes T_T. And I can't move because I'm in the middle of painting from that point of view. Despite all these, it's still a very fun trip. The air is nice, you can hear water streams, the trees are big and it just feels very peaceful *Zen mode* haha. I also always enjoy talking to my teacher's girlfriend. She is such a cool person. It's just that she gives out such a positive vibe and aura. She's also super talented. I want to grow up to be just like her!<--- this sounds so funny lol.