ALT I had the pleasure of being invited by my friend and fellow artist, Nica Aquino to collaborate on planning and teaching a free parol-making workshop. It was especially sweet to be able to share some culture and language from my ancestral home, the Philippines, Pampanga in particular, with workshop attendees. Nica got a local cafe, a sweet little spot called The Secret Garden of Pancho Lopez in…
ALT This Chalk-a-Doodle event at Glendale (CA) Marketplace is fun, having been the second time Amara Ononi events had me. I painted a big piece of paper like a canvas for guests to paint on and a cross which to draw a pencil. There was buffalo wing sauce samples, live music upstairs by Ross Dress for Less, a DJ down by Home Goods, a table for free art activities for the kids, and twenty artists or…
Before I let another year pass, want to shout out the folks at Jackalope Art Fair 2025 for including me and some of my friends new and established in a charitable endeavor: I plein-air painted “Mt. Big Boy” with oils on canvas to help Jackalope gives raise money for Altadena artists who’d lost everything in the fire this past year. Thank you Sara D. and Gloria B. for…
ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT At last, finally got around to posting these pics of the Minion Air tour, 2024! Visited four events, cities, from LA to the Bay. Thank you to Jackalope Arts Fair, Light Bringer Project, Amara Ononi Event Design, and Karla Ross Production for making these events go and for supporting artists in what they do.
foundcoffeela ’s annie choi had a silent auction fundraiser for our neighbors who were affected by the fire. i donated a print of Pillarhenge to the auction annie posted to IG: “also people who want to still give: there will be a cash donation box during the silent auction AND people have been dropping off grocery gift cards to give with the checks) thank you @geenahkrisht for the…
EDIT : There’s a new DRAWING JAM the second Sunday of November 2024! (See the first pic on this post and buy tickets at Eventbrite! ) Much thanks to the humans at The Pop-Hop Collective bookstore and art space at 5002 York Blvd. in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA. I led a collaborative drawing session with about ten folks using Lynda J. Barry’s sequential art Syllabus as a guide.…
ALT ALT We are window painters. Thank you to the city of Azusa and Azusa Connects for inviting us to move some paint around on their storefronts. Special shout out to Kelly Green who helped organize some really great talent for the event. BIGGEST shout outs go to my niece, Sara (and her dad, Ben, the B in PMLAB) who helped paint Ghostface chilling on the phone and talking to his girl friends…
ALT ALT ALT ALT View this post on Instagram A post shared by ᴀꜱꜱᴀᴍ ᴊᴇɴᴋɪɴꜱ, ᴇꜱᴋ. ⁂ (@appojax) Hurricane Han went to great ends to put out an immense rollout of Seattle Korean rapper, Jay Park’s WON SOJU launch at Terracotta and Intercrew in K-town Los Angeles, September 2024. Thanks Hurricane Han for having a neat vision for a piece and commissioning our art for the launch! It looked like a fun…
ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT I had the pleasure and honor of Tambayan Collective ’s inviting me to be a part of its show on Aug 18, 2023 at Sunset Junction in Los Angeles. The evening was uplifting and the event, well-attended. Thank you to Edmund Arevalo and Tim Obar for curating and organizing! Here is some artist info…
ALT The organizers of Jackalope Arts (Sara et. al) put on a good show in multiple cities across this fair land. I participated at theirs in conjunction with the Downtown Burbank Arts Festival, 2023 installment, paying homage to what perhaps is my favorite film, parts of which Zemeckis coincidentally shot on the streets of Burbank, I learned from one of the aunties in the pictures above. Just…
ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT We celebrated Pride in 2023 by painting a couple of petite rainbows on the ground at the Altadena (CA) Senior Center. Thanks to Councilman Nic Arnzen and Liz Espinoza (giving me mad sassy side eye in the first pic) for organizing us, and thanks to my enthusiastic apprentice painter, Tianle Su! A group had already painted a crosswalk in ROYGBIV when we arrived in the…
I dusted him. The smiling Lori Antoinette having fun with Running Legoman! Mis compañeros. Gracias! Thank you Jennifer Ripassa and Los Angeles Firecracker Run Committee, Inc. for organizing and supporting artists. This was a fun event! Last/not least, thanks to Lele, Angeli and Laup for meeting me early and helping/hanging out on a brisk Saturday morning. Two snaps up!
pssst. wanna know what Oscar's texting? We did it again! This here is a pic from the last Pasadena Chalk Festival on Father’s Day weekend in June 2022. We were able to stay overnight right across from the Civic, which helped us immensely in preparing things on Day 2. So a number of things needed answering: Do we draw the trash can? (no) Will we draw other things (yah) A hole in the can does need…
Thanks to Hurricane Han, Inc. for letting me be a part of this vision and having a mini-project on vinyl! There was a lady named Eileen Barbey who rents out her pink corvette for promo events like this. Nice meeting you, Eileen!
Really am lucky and grateful to be able to help the community in any way: through Los Angeles Community Fridges and with the help of a great coordinator (and painter), Charlotte, free food is available to anyone in my neighborhood, Eagle Rock, at the Rock Community Center; during the thick of the early pandemic, World Central Kitchen set up in the parking lot at Chavez Ravine (Dodger Stadium) and…