Sky Doll Gallery Show Nov 13

This Saturday begins a tribute to Sky Doll exhibition at La Galerie Nana in Paris France. Sky Doll co-creator Barbara Canepa asked Kei and I to contribute a piece each.

Here's just some of the amazing artists participating in the show:
Alessandro Barbucci, Barbara Canepa, Bill Presing, Enrico Casarosa, Kei Acedera, Bobby Chiu, Manuel Arenas, Claire Wendling, Benjamin

For inquiries, please contact info@lagallery.ca


Title: #1 Fan
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 6.8'' x 7.8''
Material: Pen & Watercolor


Title: Sky Doll
Artist: Kei Acedera
Size: 5.4'' x 6.7'
Material: Gouache

Chiutensity/Whispers book is now available!

Imaginism's 12th book "Chiutensity/Whispers" is now available for purchasing. This book is half Kei Acedera and half Bobby Chiu. It's all about the late night sketches and paintings Kei & Bobby do as well as some great stuff they've never published in their previous books.

3 great reasons to purchase this book now.
*1. Purchases before August 15, 2010 will be signed by both Kei Acedera & Bobby Chiu.
*2. Limited to 1000 copies printed.
*3. Free Shipping worldwide.

*CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION

back fromToronto Fan Expo

Thank you to everyone who came by our booth and showed your support this weekend!
We had a lot of fun and we look forward to next year..

Here are some sketches that Bobby and I did from the event...
(Sorry about the bad quality, I forgot my camera and took them with my phone :p )









thank you!
Kei

Charlotte was amazing...Chicago next stop!!!

A huge wonderful thank you to all of the wonderful people that came to see us at Heroes Con! We all loved the southern hospitality... and food. Corn bread at Mert's was my favorite. Yummy!

The convention was on the same weekend as the Dubs convention so here are some drawings from my little sketchbook of some of the cool characters we saw on Saturday night!












Next stop: Chicago!
We'll be at Chicago Wizard World convention from June 26-29th.
If you're in the area, come on by! Bobby Chiu, Jason Seiler and I will all be there signing books and greeting people.

Tables: 3300, 3302, 3304

Bobby and I will be doing sketches for every purchase of our prints or books!

Here's one of Bobby's that I liked.

Little Red Dragon

We found this shy little sea dragon observing us from a bank of coral. He was no bigger than my thumb, but one of our explorer friends claimed that, on a dive last year, she'd come across a full grown sea dragon that was the size of three school buses!

Hi everyone,

Here's a new pic Bobby and I did together. This is a study on deep sea photography. It's a cute little sea dragon for our new book "Water Worlds". For pre-orders click ---> [link]

Hope you like it!

Kei

Here's a little WIP gif.

Previews from the Dragons Book!

Here are some more previews from the "Dragon Sketches Book".

Hope you guys like!

the chase


Ziggy


the night battle


dragons collage


love dragons


shark-mouth dragons!


Blue Tongue Battle


lil dragons!


-Kei

Farm Animals at the Royal Winter Fair

Every year, just when winter starts, hundreds of farmers from Ontario come together in Toronto to showcase their livestock in this HUGE convention called the "Royal Winter Fair". Its a really fun-filled event and most of the art schools from the area would come to draw the animals and their owners. Its one of my favorite fairs that I'd always try to attend--its just full of character and life! You have everything there--little smelly school kids, friendly and not so friendly farm people, funny wine & cheese people, the elderly, and tons and tons of animals to pet! It was a really great time. ( but not so great for the cows n pigs, because they also sold some bacon and burgers close to them)

So here are some of my sketches from the event:

farm animals (gouache on watecolor paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches; pencils on paper)


Lemur studies (gouache on watecolor paper, 8 1/2 x 13 inches)




And here are Bobby's Sketches


(these were from a cool dog show there)




Here's a wonderful link to
Thorsten Hasenkamm

-Kei

TCAF this Sat, Sun! and.... Art Contest!!

For those of you in the Toronto Area, come on down to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, otherwise known as TCAF! The Imaginism crew will all be exhibiting there.

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Fan Art challenge!

After a long day of work Kei and I found ourselves watching 80's cartoon intros on TV last night and found ourselves inspired to do a little fan art! We had so much fun doing it that we decided that it might be fun to come up with a little challenge! Post your best He-man fan art on your blog from now until the end of August 31st and then post your link in the comments. It's just for fun and free to enter.

Kei and I will check them all out! There will be two winners. We'll each pick out a winner and mail them our fan art sketches (posted below)! It'll be a fun and nerdy way to do some art for ourselves again. So anyone interested?

Not sure how many will enter or if any at all but if it works out well then we'd love to do it again!

Bobby's


Kei's

Wizard World Chicago! Artist Alley Table 3400!

Hi all.

Kei, T and I will be absent from subway sketching for the next 3 weekends. We will resume on Sept. 2nd.

We're going to be in Chicago Aug 9-12 for the Wizard Convention - Table 3400 in Artist Alley.

Then it's TCAF in Toronto the weekend after and then it's the BIG Toronto con, the FAN EXPO. Can't wait for that one!! Sorry about this... but don't worry. Comicon season is coming to a halt end of this month.

These weren't from this Sunday's subway sketching but we were on a bus at the "African Lion Safari" in Hamilton Ontario. We had a pretty fun time. I haven't been there for over 20 years...

Here's some sketches of a lion, baboons picking each others butts and other beautiful wildlife :)

Bobby's








Kei's

Subway Sketches Art Exhibition this Saturday June 30, 7-10pm at the Labyrinth Store

Hi Everyone,

Kei and I are having our very first art show this Saturday June 30th, 7pm-10pm at the Labyrinth Store on Bloor St W just west of Spadina Avenue.

We'll be exhibiting a collection of sketches done in the subways of our beloved city of Toronto. These are original subway sketches taken straight out of our sketchbooks. You will also have the opportunity to purchase original sketches, prints and books as well as meet us in person and ask us questions.

It's going to be very exciting and fun for us so I hope you can come make it. We're also going to be premiering Imaginism Studios' 7th book - Subway Sketches. I hear the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) is going to be there as well.

Our Subway Sketches book is full of observational drawings, tips and tutorials as well as some killer guest artists!

Guest Artists
Louie del Carmen
Thierry Lafontaine <-- Thierry will also be there to sign books on Saturday
Jason Seiler
Stephen Silver
Dean Yeagle

The Subway Sketches book is a special limited edition out of the Imaginism collection. It's 72 full color pages, signed and numbered (limited to 500 copies).

All of the Subway Sketches books bought at the show or ordered online from now until the end of August will also come with an sketch from both Kei Acedera and I (Bobby Chiu). You can here.

I look forward to meeting and talking with everyone this Saturday!

Please click on the image below for directions to the Labyrinth store.

Digital Painting Classes, Comicon, Subway Sketches Book and Links

Hi Everyone,

Lots going on so here's a bunch of updates.


Registration OPEN on Schoolism.com for Digital Painting Classes with Bobby Chiu
Classes Start August 07, 2007.
There are 12 seats avalible. Sign up HERE


Today is the first day of the Paradise Toronto Comicon. The convention will be at the Direct Energy Centre @ Exhibition Place, Hall C
Open this
Friday 3-8pm
Saturday 10am-6:30pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

OUR BOOTH #CA34 (We should be just by Artist Alley)
If you're in the area, come on by and say hi! Kei Acedera and I will both be there.

Sheridan College Digital Painting Classes - CANCELED.
Unfortunately I've had to cancel my digi painting classes at Sheridan College. I will not be starting anymore classes at Sheridan. It's too far of a drive and I just don't have enough time in my schedule to drive out there every week. Thanks for the great time Sheridan! I'll miss all you Oakvillians.

Last bit of news: Subway Sketches Book coming June 30th. We'll be having an art show for the release of our book at Spadina & Bloor. More info coming soon.

Now for some killer links:
Sebastian Kruger
Scott Morse
Ted Mathot
Nick Sung
Aurelie Blard-Quintard
Alex Woo

So long San Fran. Hello LA Wizard Con!

Thank you SF Wondercon for such a fabulous experience! We met many new friends as well as saw some old ones! Can't wait to come back next year. Dinner at Osha was amazing... if you like Thai food I definitely recommend it.

Kei and I are just about to head out now... we rented a sweet little convertible and we're going to go cruise the coast. Next stop LA Wizard World March 16-18! Come out and visit if you're in the area.




Bobby & Kei

Here's a collaboration sketch by Kei and I