“Go uses the most elemental materials and concepts — line and circle, wood and stone, black and white — combining them with simple rules to generate subtle strategies and complex tactics that stagger the imagination. ” – Iwamoto Kaoru, 9-dan professional Go player and former Honinbo title holder This submission comes from Alan, a huge GO fan who is on the …
Sneak Preview and Pre-orders: ‘Dream Big’ Cards!
Update: Dream Big pre-orders have ended but the item is now available in all its natural, deckled glory on Etsy here. Thanks for looking!!
Papers and Functional Oddities at Bergamot Station
A few weeks back, I planned a trip out to Santa Monica for some supplies. It was not a trip I was looking forward to, it was raining, I had other errands to run, and the thought of the dreadful-LA-traffic-rumor-that-isn’t, amplifying as city drivers panic at any signs of wetness was quite seriously horrifying. To my surprise, my little hand …
Illustrated Friday: Bite Me from Gula-Gula
For Illustrated Friday today, I received some one-liner submissions and picked one I liked. My favorite phrase is from the fabulous Adelene of Gula-gula, a luscious line of handmade chocolate liqueur truffles in Australia! Check out her facebook page here, you’ll want to order them all. Adelene is no ordinary chocolatier and wants her line of truffles to someday reflect …
Atelier Tuesday: Personalized Furoshiki Wraps!
I love textures, imperfections and and reuse-ability in gift wrapping and packaging. To me, they tell someone that everything about the gift matters, including what it was wrapped in. It can be re-gifted again many many times or find new life as other interesting uses. This experiment is one that I have been wanting to try for awhile now and …
Inspired Monday: Storytelling at 826LA
For the first of my Inspired Monday series, I am featuring an amazing local organization called 826LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center in Echo Park, LA that I discovered during the recent Citylabs event and just finished a volunteer session with-illustrating for a storytelling field trip for 2nd graders. What exactly is it that earns 826LA an Inspired Project …
Illustrated Friday: Kick-start!
Today is the first of Illustrated Fridays! If you want to know more about what that means, see the about page here . In short, I am dedicating my sketchbook on Fridays to all you folks! All you need to do
Hand-made papers! With Flowers and Seeds!
The TreeSpace Studio is committed to using 100% post-consumer-recycled papers, hand-made papers and artisan papers whenever we can! What can be better than beautiful papers lovingly hand-made right here in Southern California? Nothing makes me click my heels more than discovering an artisan whose gorgeous creations plant seeds in my idea garden!
When We Didn’t Have Much…
SNEAK PREVIEW! A few days ago I read a disturbing article in a weekly news magazine we receive in the mail. It pointed out how kids today spend 90% of their waking hours connected to some electronic media or the other (among them the usual guilty triage of Apple paraphernalia, and various types of virtual reality apparatuses) They also multi-task, …
Paint All Night Studios
I fell in love with these paintings by an extremely talented artist, Robert David Bretz, who has a shop on Etsy. I absolutely love anything that celebrates the wonderful, beautiful, and simple things in life and he does it so, so well. Since Valentine’s Day is coming, I thought I’d do a tribute to this artist and his wonderful ‘smiles’.