Racuh

My best friend Tracey was only 24 when discovered a lump in her breast. She wrote a beautiful article on her journey in rediscovering intimacy with her boyfriend after mastectomy, by holding tight to the notion that beauty is a state of mind.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33213581/ns/today-today_health/

These are a few excerpts from the article:
"I tried to think to myself, "OK, whatever, it's a boob. It sucks but hey, it's not my arm, right?" but I wasn't ready. It felt like I was burying my youth."

"My bald head is covered in kisses, pats, rubs, and fuzzy hats whenever he comes home or if I look sad or feel ugly."

"When I was home, he emptied the tubes that drained fluid from my body and dressed my wounds. The first time he saw my chest he cried a little. I cried a lot. He kissed my incision and said he "was a butt guy anyway.""


Thank you for reading. I am extremely proud and grateful of Tracey for sharing her story. It is beautifully written, brutally honest and simply a sublime love story.

Sincerely,
Griselda.

Sweet Streets @ Gallery Nucleus

This photo was taken by David W. Chan from Sweet Streets at Gallery Nucleus over the weekend. I completely forgot to take pictures, so when I found it at Mr. Chan's facebook, I'm super trilled. Thanks David.

Nathania

Nathania is my new born niece. She is the cutest cutie patootie ever. I am not a believer of assigning color to babies by his/her gender (seriously!!!), but for some odd reason I've been getting all pink stuff for Nania and finding the girliest thing ever for her. I know, I know, it's terrible that I don't want to do it to my own child, yet... I'm totally doing it to my sister's child. haha... :)

So here she is as a li'l ballerina, inspired by many of Mary Blair's paintings.

Cheers,
Sel

ps. A good friend of mine, Natalie, just got a new Mary Blair book from Japan. It's amazing!!!! Thanks Natalie for letting me borrow your book.

Harajukus

Hi,

It's been a while. I've been very busy, between DWA, teaching, and getting in shape, it seems it is a miracle for me to find time to paint. So, Elizabeth Ito is kind enough to introduce me to Caro that is going to have a group show at nucleus. And these are the paintings that I did.

Hope you guys like 'em and I'll let you know when the show is going to be.

Cheers,
G.

Li'l Orphan Annie

I am donating this gouache painting for "Donors Choose" a charity that buys art supplies for classrooms around the country.

On Saturday, November 15th The Those Guys are putting on a charity screening of the classic movie "The Goonies" at the Rialto Theater in South Pasadena. Admission is FREE, and they'll be accepting donations at the door. The night will include a raffle (including Sean Astin-signed movie stills, DreamWorks and Nickelodeon Animation schwag and much more!) and 80's kid movie themed art auction.

The auction starts on Monday November 10th at ttgcharity.com and will finish on the night of the event.

For more information, please visit http://thethoseguys.blogspot.com/

this is more like it

"Li'l monsters on a date" is for a Picture Book Project by super sweethearts Rachel Tiep-Daniels and Margaret Wuller. It is a coloring book to benefit the orphaned children in Ghana and Tijuana. Please check it out, http://www.picturebookproject.blogspot.com/

Picture Book Rroject

"Li'l monsters on a date" is for a Picture Book Project by super sweethearts Rachel Tiep-Daniels and Margaret Wuller. It is a coloring book to benefit the orphaned children in Ghana and Tijuana. Please check it out, http://www.picturebookproject.blogspot.com/

Also, Normster suggested that I should put them on top of chimneys with toxic gas ... hihi... The boy monster reminds me of him, and the girl one reminds me of Tracey.