New Personal work

I finally finished a personal piece this week! yay. Haven't done in a while, feels great! :D

Congratulations to all the winners of last week's Valentine Giveaway!

That was a crazy Valentine-filled marathon week. I just wanted to congratulate all you winners and give thanks to everyone who participated and showed support for the giveaway contest and my work! You guys are all awesome!! You can find all of the valentines archived here.

Valentine Giveaway No.2 !

#valentine #art #giveaway no. 2 //
To spread some more love out there I’ve decided to do a VALENTINE GIVEAWAY this whole week until next tuesday (Feb. 11)!

Rules:
Starting yesterday, I’m making an original valentine artwork (5”x 5”) each day and posting it to my Tumblr.
Just reblog this tumblr post and I will randomly pick a winner at 10pm (CST) tomorrow. (I changed the time for this one because of my schedule :P)

Each winner will receive:
-the original valentine drawing of the day
-a love-themed haiku poem by me
-some candy

Pease don’t forget to keep your “ask me” open…the winner has dibs for 24 hrs…after that I am selecting a new person at random if I don’t hear back from the first selection!!
Everyday is a new Valentine! ;)
Wishing you tons of love n happiness!
XOXOXO Fu

Good Bad Sister Sister: No. 4

Love is sometimes a six-letter word.

For previous issues: goodbadsistersister.tumblr.com
For other news and updates: facebook.com/lydiafu.artist

SNAG @ the Cobalt, Vancouver Jan. 29

Since I was in Vancouver for a visit, Drew Young asked me to do SNAG last week with a group of artists including the awesome Katie So (who had just recently been feature on booooooom.com)
It was kind of crazy to do this the last night of my visit to Vancouver (I was waayyyy tired and groggy) But it was so nice to hand off my finished piece to the lovely lucky Lucy who won it! (horse theme for chinese new year :P)

(photo by Lucy)

Last penpal trade of 2013 Seoul // Chicago!!!! Happy 2014~

Heui and I decided to choose a poem and illustrate it for our last drawing swap of the year 2013

I just received Heui's AMAZING illustration in the mail a few days ago, set to Korean poet Yoon Dong-Ju 's poem:

Prologue

Let me have no shame
Under the heaven
Till I die

Even the sound of wind
Passing the leaves
Pained my heart
With a heart singing stars
I will love all dying things
And I must step my path
That's been given to me

Tonight also

The wind sweeps past among the stars

Heui's illo is a beautiful vision of a beautiful poem :)

 I chose a poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova:

Your lynx-eyes, Asia,
spy on my discontent;
they lure into the light
my buried self,
something the silence spawned,
no more to be endured
than the noon sun in Termez.
Pre-memory floods the mind
like molten lava on the sands...
as if I were drinking my own tears
from the cupped palms of a stranger's hands.
   -- 1945

I tried out painting on this thin sheet of birch wood

We both wrote our translated poems on the back of the artwork! (and they both seemed to be very emotional poems...ahaha)

A Metra ride to see the Viper and His Famous Orchestra

and a bunch of sketches along the way! Last night's venture to a downtown show.

On the metra ride to downtown.. 

 at the venue:

these sketches began to become a little inebriated towards the end...looks like the start of an ink-only sketchbook. My friend's husband was playing in the band so I ended up making weird portraits of all the members. yei!

Michel Gondry's New film + New Facebook Page!

Last night my friend and I watched Michel Gondry's new film "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?", an animated documentary starring Noam Chomsky.
As I haven't been following the world of independent film/animation for a while, I actually first found out about this from Tuesday's edition of Democracy Now!

Trailer on youtube and Michel Gondry's website:

I find both Gondry and Chomsky equally mind-blowing inspirational figures and this film was especially a delight for me to watch since it's two geniuses from two fields I feel - in my personal experience ahem :) - are so alike and bridgeable though they are often perceived as polar opposites. Gondry vs. Chomsky or Art vs. Science. You have to see this one if you are a total art/science geek/nerd whatever. It's for everyone really. Ok if you're at least a human you must watch it! Even if you're a robot it's awesome too!!

Also new: You can find regular updates on my facebook page now!

Work from Robots & Monsters @AydenGallery

I found a shot of the gallery opening night below (my work is in the corner)! Too bad I could not make it but excited to see all the fun times. :)

Original photo and article by Aaron Morris found on grinddown.com

The two pieces in the show:

Coder, 18"x24" Ink + gouache on paper

Meigui, 18"x24" Ink+gouache on paper

USSAG: Erotic Friday 13th Opening

 Some people trying to figure my stuff out for me

that crazy lighting is from...

the disco floor!!

There were some mysterious masqueraders as well:

My lovely friend accompanying my lonely self to this show.

Afterwards, since it was 2nd Fridays (something similar to Vancouver's SWARM except more frequent! - all the local galleries open their doors to the public), we went to check out some other work being shown in neighboring galleries:

Very cool performance piece in the windows of ROOMS gallery:

(those are very uncanny stones they are playing with!)

USSAG: Art Drop Off

I just dropped off my artwork at Ugly Step Sister for the upcoming group show over the weekend. Since my lovely sister was in town to visit, I dragged her along to help me out :)

Gallery front door

They had some cute soaps on display in the front

(check out that moustache one)

New Demo Reel up!

I've posted a version of my demo reel that I'm pretty happy about! It's up on Vimeo and YouTube as well as my website. Check it out below :D -yay:

Postcard show winner!

Raph won his bid on my "zhu" postcard from The Postcard Show Vol. II. He showed me where he hung it up - right next to his super cute little panda! ahaha....Panda won't be hungry.
Congrats on winning and thank you for the support!

Postcard Show Vol. II photos + SNAG tonight @9pm!

TONIGHT I'm doing SNAG again, come to the Cobalt on Main St. to see some live painting by other amazing artists as well. The lineup can be found on the facebook page.

Also the postcard show vol. 2 was a lot of fun. Saw some really awesome pieces as well as ran into some fantastic artists! I submitted the series below:

Some photos I snapped at the opening:

my buddies hangin out in the front window with all the other hip art

Some of my faves below:

 

Drew Young:

I loved this series by Shannon Elliott!!