Saving the dates of yesteryear.

It's been fun looking through stuff Imade.

These are the "Save The Date" postcards from my wedding. They were done in a style reminiscent of some David Lance Goines posters I like.

And yea, we made 2 versions. One with roses and the other with gingko:

And, since it was a postcard, here's the back:














I'll post some of the other wedding art next time!

A commissioned work

Taj Mahal Poster, 2008 32" x 20"


This poster was commissioned by my friend Judy who traveled across India with an organization called Operation Equip India. This group helps provide wheel chairs for disabled adults and children. She wanted to remember this meaningful trip with a poster, and the Taj Mahal is certainly an iconic image of all India.

I take commissions from people who may want their own "vintage styled" poster for their own home or to give as a gift. These images can be used as framed art, or even made smaller and printed on note cards, stationary and the like.

In creating posters such as these for clients, I like to incorporate photos or images taken by the client on their trip. Here, you see the "before" photo:














On the poster, many personalized details have been incorporated; some of these may be small, and therefore difficult to fully appreciate at this scale. There are small icons with the organization's logo. The border details mimic the Taj Mahal's decorative carvings. The text above include the dates of my friend's trip, places she visited, and a passage which sums up the spirit of the trip in helping the poor and disabled.

As an aside, I was surprised that the landscaping- the trees in particular- was not better kept. Note the Stepford-esque trees in the final poster!

Welcome to the Third Workshop.

For me, art making has always been intertwined with growth and learning.

Around the age of five, I remember watching my uncle sketch the outstretched wings of an eagle pictured in a natural-science book I had. At six, I mixed red paint and orange paint, and yellow, green, blue, and violet. I was rather confused at the resulting brown goop for it bore no resemblance to the spectrum of light I had just learned about. These and the ensuing years of pencil, paint and paper were my first exposures to art.

A second period of my ventures would start during the adolescent years. There was Ms. Miller's studio art class which produced a big shoe and a yellow submarine, among other things. (Perhaps more on that later). And then came my time at Berkeley. I vividly recall the first day of class. It must have been something silly I said because as I finished my question, my professor spit out his coffee in violent laughter. There were also the less humorous and intensely focused long hours of work, debate, training, and critique in the architecture studio. Though, actually, it was funny in the studios too.

But I digress. All of this has brought us to the present day. The next phase in this journey? And you're catching glimpses of it; a busy place where art and life are being created. And for me, a place where art and life are evermore connected. It's the way I see it, anyway. It's the Third Workshop.

This is the first version of the ThirdWorkshop logo.