Art, Lakers, and Koji truck

Grandma's 70th Birthday Piece

This captured the beauty and color of my dear Grandma, Mai. This original 1/1 piece was created with a water based ink for the over paint and water colors for the under paint.

She was and is still one of my inpirations and driving forces for my love of the culinary arts. Both my mother and my grandma's secret ingredient to cooking is their own Love and Soul.

When I was in 6th and 7th grade she helped me make a Wolverine and Gambit costume for Halloween. I was the art director and she produced everything on her sewing machine in our garage. Being original and over the top with my costume creations since then, has earned me the title of someone to look forward to every Halloween. I'm usually humble and pretty reserved with my creations, as is my Grandma with her creations, but deep down inside we both know, we ROCK!

After watching "We Were Once a Fairytale"

We are all apart of something grand and larger than we realize. We run around with the greatest gift...free will. We are the drivers of our own lives driving down this road towards a better and beautiful destination. Close to perfection is what we sometimes imagine it to be, but we tend to find out from experiences, that its never the case. Reaching that place we call point B is sometimes worthless because of our inability to retain what we've learned."What the heck was inbetween those two points? Why does it feel like I'm still at point A." The Grand beauty we search for is less than we imagine and the bigger part of us is ugly and not the perfection we were told we would find if we work hard at it. We are the same person we were 10 or even 20 years ago. Our free will leaves us to decide wheter to move forward knowing the facts of an ugly truth and trying to overcome them. Most of us do quite the opposite and put blame on others, give up on the journey, and CUTTING and beating ourselves up for making the same mistakes over and over again. Thats the reality we all live in. God is not perfect, and we are not perfect. We sometimes may feel cut off from God's love and life,but even with that and even with the horrible mistakes we make over and over again, there is always one thing to remember we have...free will...free will to change and to live a better life. Free will to change and to live a better life with all the evil, hate and ugliness in this world. Free will to change and to live a better life even if you've wronged more than you can remember. Free will to change and to live a better life.

...we can change. We can live a better life.

Daniel Tes

California was where I fell in love...

with music,
with art,
with beauty,
with change,
with colors,
with struggle
with family,
with friends,
with myself,
with my love,
my dreams,
my god,
my destiny...
my life.

Sunny Days Ahead...

First time trying out Flash. The assignment for class was to understand basic animation, we had to animate sunshine. This is pretty fun. hmmm, endless possiblities ....I was listining to "We are the People" by Empire of the Sun while making this quick animation.

"We can remember swimming in December, Heading for the city lights in 1975 We share in each other Nearer than farther The scent of lemon, drips from your eyes We are the people who rule the world A force running in every boy and girl All rejoicing in the world Take me now We can try We lived an adventure Love in Summer Followed the sun till night Reminiscing other times of life For each every other The feeling was stronger The shock hit eleven Got lost in your eyes I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me, but I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Should you be believing now I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me, but I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Should you be believing now Can you remember and humanize, It was still where wed energized, Lie in the sand and visualize like its 75 again We are the people that rule the world A force running in every boy and girl All rejoicing in the world Take me now We can try I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me, but I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Should you be believing now I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me, but I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Should you be believing now I know everything about you Know everything about me Know everything about us x2 I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me, but I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Should you be believing now I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me, but I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Should you be believing now x2"

Mon on the Moon Screen prints

Number 2/7

3 week screen print project comes full circle 10/07/09. 7 prints done on 19x24 Bristol Vellum sheets. Actual painted area is 11x17. Mixed media using water based inks, color pencils and water colors. Title: Mon on the Moon.