Moved to TUMBLR

Hey peeps! I've decided to haul my blog over to Tumblr! You can come visit me there. :)

http://pzilla.tumblr.com

Online SHOP is now OPEN! Free Greeting Card with Purchase.

You can visit www.lydiafu.com/shop to find some of my prints, greeting cards, and original paintings/drawings. I am giving A FREE GREETING CARD, to the first 25 customers on any purchase!

New Personal work

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

Good Bad Sister Sister: No. 6

A Mom's Advice for "Youth" 2

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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.

Good Bad Sister Sister No. 5

Professional

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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.

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VALENTINE'S GIVEAWAY

Hey peeps and lovers!
To spread some more love out there I've decided to do a VALENTINE GIVEAWAY this whole week until next tuesday (Feb. 11)!
Starting today, I will make an original valentine artwork (5"x 5") each day and post it to my Tumblr.
Just reblog the tumblr post of the valentine of the day (starting with this one!!) and I will randomly pick a winner at 7am (CST) the following day.

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

Wishing you lots of love n happiness!
XOXOXO Fu

To play go to:
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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!

late night sketch of bao staring like a staring cat

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.

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!