"Out of the Shire" pieces for sale

The opening for Gallery Nucleus' "Out of the Shire" exhibition was last night! My pieces are for sale online.

 An Unexpected Party

Roast Mutton

I hope everyone in New England is enjoying the snow! I am curled up in a ball with my space heater, wishing I was in L.A. last night!

HO HO HO

Just finished painting my Christmas card for this year! Comment with your address or shoot me an email if you want one :)

Out of the Shire @ Gallery Nucleus

SUPER STOKED TO ANNOUNCE that I will have two pieces in the upcoming Gallery Nucleus show "Out of the Shire" - a tribute to Tolkien! If you're in/near L.A., please go take pictures for me because I am sadly stuck in Connecticut.

What an honor to be among such amazing artists whom I admire very much! (And how humbling!)

The People's and Denizens of Middle-Earth

Big announcement!!

"The Hobbit" extended edition DVD came out today...

My troll piece is featured in one of the behind-the-scenes documentaries called "The People's and Denizens of Middle-Earth", and I'm so excited to finally share this!

Here's a photo & short video clip!

The Hobbit, and more specifically Tolkien, has been my biggest love since I was a kid, so this is truly an honor for me, even if my image is only on screen for less than 2 seconds. Life dreams, man!

Spoonflower fabric

All the patterns I've made recently are finally up on Spoonflower! Check it out~

Here are the test swatches, the first three are on basic cotton and Fat Cat is on performance knit -

I'd love to see these fabrics made into things...they're also available as gift wrap & wallpaper!

Autumn

 

I don't know why, but I've been doing watercolor painting for so long that I got a little scared of painting opaquely, to the point where I almost forgot what it felt like. And a few days ago, I had the sudden urge to ditch my watercolors! So here's an acrylic painting - yay or nay?!

Boogity Boo!

 

Been having a lot of fun with patterns lately!

The Buds & The Bees

New pattern! Make me a dress with it?

Roma

What to do on a Saturday night? Paint the same window you've painted a bajillion times before, of course.

Toucan pattern

I thought about making another installment of FAT CAT, but decided to paint toucans instead!

FAT CAT

Wow, people love FAT CAT! Featured on RISD Portfolios on Behance, on my birthday, no less. What a great present!

"The Hobbit" excitement

Trying hard not to freak out because I'm so excited and honored, but make sure you check out the extended edition of "The Hobbit" DVD in November. One of my pieces will be making an appearance in a behind-the-scenes documentary! Can you say dream come true?!

Fresh

For this week's Illustration Friday! Trying to do more digital things. This started out as something much bigger but I ended up liking this crop better. Poor fishy!

FAT CAT Pattern!

 

I made a repeating pattern out of FAT CAT! This is the first pattern I've done since my silkscreen class...I forgot how fun they are! Available on Spoonflower!

New sketchbook...

...let's fill it with silly things!

Self

I love drawing cute things but sometimes I go crazy and try to get better at painting digitally and then crazy self-portraits happen...Photoshop, am-I-right?! Do I look tired? I feel a little tired.

FAT CAT

Just amusing myself with some fat cats.

Suburbia

Some quickie watercolor sketches out my window.

Family Portrait

Meet the fuzzballs I currently share a living space with:

Otto & Lulu, Guillermo the Guinea Pig (actually my brother's), and Jordan the Rabbit.

Gallery Nucleus blog feature!

Though I haven't actually been able to go to any of them, being on the other side of the country and all, I've been a huge fan of Gallery Nucleus' exhibitions for awhile. Some of my favorite artists regularly show there. They have a new tribute show coming up in December based on Tolkien's works! Tolkien has been a huge part of my life for as long as I can remember, so it's an honor that the newest post on the "Out of the Shire" blog features my work!

Check it out! ----> "Out of the Shire"!

Marshmallow Roast

I have very fond memories of camping with my family every summer, burning marshmallows by accident (and sometimes on purpose). Luckily we never got ransacked by raccoons, but these little guys look like they could just be listening to the music, right?

Ribbit!

Print for sale here!

Cape Cod

I spent the past week lazin' about on Cape Cod, here's a couple teeny watercolors~

Gelato Date

Print for sale on INPRNT!

INPRNT

I've started selling prints!

Go HERE to check it out.

If you have a request for something that's not on there already, shoot me an email!

She still doesn't notice!

Print for sale on INPRNT~

Bear Dog!

...dog bear!?

After School

Grocery Shopping

Trying out a new technique where I color digitally under graphite lines!

Yay!

Hey y'all! Sorry for the lack of updates recently but guess what...I graduated! Woo hoo! I spent the past week decompressing on a tiny beach in Niantic, CT, and will now get on to the "real world" things!

Alumni Sale

The RISD alumni sale was a blast today! If I met you, hey! You're cool! Here is me with my bud Pally Zhang, and our assorted letterpress goodies. Despite the insane wind and holding down prints with bowls of rocks (seen above), I'm really happy I finally got to be in the sale. Hopefully I can return as a real alumni next time, not a student in ~disguise~ !

 I'm thinking of opening an etsy shop with all my leftover prints, so I'll definitely post about that when it's up!

What's Cookin, Good Lookin?

Come to my senior show next Thursday!! It's the last of the Illustration shows.

Thursday, May 9th, 6-8pm

ISB Gallery

55 Canal Walk, Providence, RI

If you can't make it to the reception, the gallery is open from 12-4 until the 15th!

RISD Alumni Sale!

I'll be selling letterpress prints and silkscreen throw pillows this Saturday at the RISD Alumni Sale! It's on the 4th from 10am-4pm. Come hang out with me!

Watch This!

Normally I only post my own work here, but I feel the need to share -

This is a short film made by Christina Cho while on RISD's European Honors Program last spring! I play the main girl~

"L'Altro Giorno, da Roma..."

Things that have happened lately

So much has happened since I last posted!


I was in a production of Cabaret, put on by RISD's theater club. It was our first full-scale production, with a professional band, lights, costumes, everything!

There was a huge design portfolio review at the convention center.

Here are some character turnarounds.

THUNDERDOME.

Here is a new image with the character from above (WIP).

I did another "Work in Process" event at the RISD Museum! I'll be doing another one in May.

And here is Ben Franklin riding a kite.

Life of Pi color keys

Watercolor & gouache. Because this was a really pretty movie!

New painting!

Made this for my mailers to hand out during Portfolio Review next week!

The Phantom Tollbooth

Here is a cover and text design for The Phantom Tollbooth! (From my book cover class.) Watercolor, as usual.

Work in Process @ the RISD Museum

Tomorrow night, February 21st, I'll be settled in the Porcelain Gallery (4th floor) at the RISD Museum from 7:30-8:30, talking about the process behind my watercolor illustrations. Here's a fun little blurb advertisement:

Join RISD student, Stephanie Vecellio (RISD BFA Illustration '13) in the Porcelain Gallery for a conversation about the processes and techniques she uses to create her watercolor illustrations.

 Should be a fun time! Come hang out with me!

Wintersession 2013

WOW does time go by fast when you're really busy! I have to say, these past five weeks may have been the busiest I've ever been...ever. Between a demanding course, an internship, and rehearsal for a musical, I'm not sure if I'm even breathing right now...somebody should come check my pulse.

I had the awesome opportunity to take a fabric silkscreen course this wintersession, and it was super challenging but also rewarding. Learning a new skill always involves a lot of frustration, especially when that skill is nothing like you've ever done before! In the five weeks, I completed two repeating patterns, and learned a whole lot about how to dye fabric.

The first fabric is based on a column I found in the RISD museum from Hadrian's Villa. Here is the pattern repeated, and snippets of the three printed fabrics:

Repeated pattern, birdies and branches! Leaves printed in india ink from real ivy.

Dyed yellow muslin, printed in orange.

Dyed uneven purple muslin, printed in dark purple.

Pink and orange rainbow roll, printed in turquoise.

 My second design went much smoother, since I finally mastered putting on emulsion (it only took me three tries the first time, shhh!) I wanted to design a textile that would be fun for a child, and I immediately went to glow-in-the-dark. Remember those fun sticky stars? Every awesome kid had them. I chose to create a pattern from a constellation map as a more elegant approach to that idea. And I printed in GLOW IN THE DARK INK oh yeahh! So fun! I can't seem to get a good photo of it glowing but, trust me, it glows. I experimented a lot with discharging and table dying to get that cosmic, celestially dyed fabric.

Repeated pattern.

Dyed baby blue muslin, printed in navy blue.

Dyed baby blue, discharged and table dyed muslin, printed in glow-in-the-dark.

Both fabrics next to each other.

All four fabrics!

I think these processes were also so difficult because of the size of the fabrics and screens - all the fabrics are 45" by 3 yards, and the screens are like 25" x 45" as well. And there is so much preparation that goes into silkscreen - getting ready to print a screen is 95% of the work, and printing only takes about 5 minutes! But in the end, I'm really proud to have these finished products. As you may or may not know, my mom recently started up an Etsy business, called The Quilting Bee. She sews baby and lap quilts and other fun things! Like pillows! It's my hope that she can turn these into something even cooler. (So if you feel so inclined, keep an eye on her Etsy page, or check back here because I'll probably definitely post about anything these are made into.)

So in addition to this course, I have also been interning at Ladyfingers Letterpress, a letterpress printing studio in Pawtucket, and rehearsing for a RISD production of Cabaret that's being performed in March - I'll post more about that when it gets closer.


For now, I am going to eat one of the fresh chocolate chip cookies I just baked and try to breathe a little. Until spring semester starts next week...!