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

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)

Good Bad Sister Sister: No. 3

Keeping up with the Chens

New post every wednesday!

previous issues can be found: goodbadsistersister.tumblr.com

updates also on my facebook page!

GoodBadSisterSister: Issue 2

Crouching Tiger Hidden Eye Crease

previous issues can be found: goodbadsistersister.tumblr.com
updates also on my facebook page!

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)

Good Bad Sister Sister: Issue 1!

A Mom's Advice for "Youth"

I've also started a tumblr site where you can find future posts for this comic!

goodbadsistersister.tumblr.com

Starting a New Comic!

In an effort to exercise my storytelling and drawing abilities,...I'm starting a new comic series....I will start posting them weekly from next wednesday! Stay tuned... ;D

You can find other and future updates at my facebook page as well!

Wintertime in Chicago and promo postcards!

As one of my goals is to get better at self promoting, after starting a facebook page earlier in the month, I also had some postcards printed using artwork I made in spirit of the season and mailed a bunch out before holidays! Now I can go hibernate, right? :P

...and I'm off to the mailbox!

2nd penpal drawing between Seoul // Chicago!

Heui and I both got each other's second assignments in the mail!

This theme was a portrait of our grandmothers. I think our relationship with our grandmother comes out through the way we approached the renditions.

Heui's grandma:

my grandma (I called her "婆婆" (po-po)):

She taught me how to fold origami and she used to make 饅頭 (mantou) or chinese steamed buns/bread a lot.

unhatching a new Penpal project..

My friend Heuiwon and I are starting a penpal (or maybe it's more like a paintpal) project! We still need to iron out the details but here's a look at our first project. We painted each other's portraits and then snail-mailed them to each other! We just received each other's pieces in the mail - now it's time to find a nice frame :D

Hoping to build this into an ongoing project so will post some updates on it as it develops :)

 Heui's portrait of me with cute cat ears ^_^

 a close up

Cats were surprisingly the theme since I also added Heui's cat, Haru, to her portrait:

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

CSS animation

Wow...NY Times has this short story, illustrated by Attila Futaki that has an interactive animation going on with the scroll..it's a simple 3d layered zoom but sooo cool! Check out the story and what I'm talking about:
Tomato Can Blues

I'm seeing a lot of these new css-based animations- which reminds me of another super cool animation (animated ENTIRELY in css!) that I was led to via my fellow Gamomo friend Kenji:
The Good Man by Pedro Ivo Hudson

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!)

Upcoming Show: Ugly Step Sister Gallery (FREAKY FRIDAY 13th)

I will be part of an upcoming group show "Erotic Friday the 13th" at Ugly Step Sister Gallery in the Pilsen Arts District next weekend (Opening nights are on Sept. 13 and Sept. 14).

(photo by Mike Dooley)

They will be showcasing some of my drawings among other artists (paintings and photography).

Erotic Friday the 13th Show
September 13 – October 6, 2013

Two Opening Receptions:
Friday, September 13, 6 - 9pm
Saturday, September 14, 6 - 10pm

Featuring artists from New York, Michigan & Chicago.

Lydia Fu, Joe Sikora, PravusArt, Nathan Graves Tuttle, Nolan Fellows, Andrew Ek, Tanya Tucci, Stafford Smith, Missy Dahl, Peter Walsh, Mike Dooley, Gerardo Villarreal, J.F. Bolet, Jennifer Anne Buckley, Vlad K.

Ugly Step Sister Art Gallery
1750 S. Union Street, Chicago, IL 60616
tel: 312.927.7546

For more information and directions: Ugly Step Sister's facebook page

a peak at work in progress for show:

summer painted fans

Earlier in the summer I painted these (Princess Mononoke inspired) fans for the Vancouver Chinatown Night Market but they ended up being too labor intensive and now I'm not quite sure what to do with them! I guess they will come in handy for the remaining hot days at the beach :)

"eyes of the tiger"

"still waters run deep"

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:

SNAG 28 photos

Drew shot some awesome photos of the piece I did for SNAG 28 (on June 12). You can check out all the action for this night and previous SNAGs on the tumblr page or the Facebook page.

photos: Drew Young

SNAG + Burlesque night tomorrow!

I've decided to do a last minute SNAG appearance to say goodbye to Vancouver! If you're able to come out to the Cobalt, come say hello/goodbye and have a chance to take away some affordable Awesome-sauce art!

The piece from my first SNAG event, won by the Cobalt's very own DJ that night:

I dunno what I will paint this time...I guess you'll have to come and see, eh? (wink wink)!