n a t a l y k i m

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Here is my contribution to the AB (Art Brownie) Project taking place at Index G - Opening night NOVEMBER 19 3pm-6pm

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M&M

2011-10-21T11:17:00.001-07:00

crowning

2011-10-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

Getting a few teeth crowned today...grumble grumble

journey through space

2011-10-19T12:21:00.001-07:00

rainbow valley

2010-05-13T14:04:00.000-07:00

rainy day sketch

2010-05-07T11:43:00.001-07:00

2010-01-31T10:12:00.000-08:00

I've been painting! well, just a bit, and I guess it's technically more like drawing on some wood with paint. Anyways, I made this little piece for that's to be included in an installation at my friend Tessar Lo's first Toronto solo show:

"everything we wanted, in our nostalgic future"
SHOW & TELL Gallery, February 5th - 28th.

victory!

2010-01-13T14:21:00.000-08:00

The Little Cloud

2009-12-09T17:25:00.000-08:00

It totally slipped my mind to mention that my sidekick Chris and I put out a little book almost one year ago called "The Little Cloud".

Each book is hand bound and has a screenprinted cover (thanks Liz!!) They sell for $14, which you can purchase at Etsy.com or message me.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28608959&ref=sr_gallery_1&&ga_search_query=the+little+cloud&ga_search_type=category&category=books_and_zines&ga_page=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

This would make for a wonderful little Christmas present or stocking stuffer this year!

And did I mention how darn cute it is! :o)

painting at work

2009-11-24T10:04:00.001-08:00

stache-cat-stache

2009-11-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

hello november.

summer!

2009-08-05T10:20:00.000-07:00

here's a design that didn't make the cut, so I've decided to give him the boot to my blog.

brain explosion

2009-07-07T14:20:00.001-07:00

my brain is exploding from work.

boots

2009-06-11T13:22:00.000-07:00

I've been working on designs for children's boots at work for the last couple of days.

as of late...

2009-03-29T19:13:00.000-07:00

I think I have to be one of the worst individuals with updating.

Several weeks ago, Lou got me a gig doing some live art for a L'Oreal conference. We had 1 hour to complete 6 illustrations. Here are some pics, courtesy of my friend http://sunnyfong.wordpress.com (not project runway SF, but the original.)

Just follow your nose

2009-03-13T13:19:00.000-07:00

I've finally (how many times haven't I used that word) made a new piece for Sheridan's fundraiser show - The Birds and the Bees (http://birdsandbeesshow.wordpress.com/)

Since I've been unemployed for about a little over a month, I was hoping to get more painting in. ... Maybe I actually need someone else to kick me in the ass, rather than depend on my own foot.

BOO!

2008-10-28T14:38:00.000-07:00

Some halloween drawings for work!

the cold wind blew.

2008-10-22T14:07:00.000-07:00

and what a wind!

Where are these illustrations of mine? I ask myself the same question everyday. sigh.

"computer, open browser"
"computer, close window"
"computer, what time is it?"

A friend brought back some fun time memories when we were doing our work placements back in the day.
It was at that time when I told myself I would never let myself get into the position I'm in now, a full time day
job sans illustration work to follow.

Maybe this wind will bring a change of pace into my life. :D

July has come to an end.

2008-07-29T21:17:00.000-07:00

and I really thought that I would've gotten alot more done! T_T

I had alot of ambition once July hit, and now it's over. I guess running into August a little late won't hurt.

Tonight I'm posting my sketch for this travelling sketchbook that some of us Sheridan grads have started up. I'm not even sure if I should be posting up a sneak peak, but voila anyways. I'm also putting up a new painting in the works. Now that I've transformed my bed into a couch, I had a little area to squeeze a little work table (=sheridan donkey board + 2 milk crates) into.

YAY!

My website is also, FINALLY updated for 2008!! I'm just trying to iron out some kinks with my host. It's almost here!!

over and out for now,
and time for some long awaited sleep.

crafty robot

2008-07-15T13:51:00.001-07:00

so, I felt like today was a flip book kind of day. I found a little site for kids to make flipbooks. TRES FUN!

www.benettonplay.com

R A I N B O W L U S T.

2008-07-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

It's so nice to actually get a painting done! WOOF! It feels like it's been way too long. No more throwing my time away. More art on the way!! GO GO GO ME!

colour

2008-06-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

heart on.

2008-06-23T00:36:00.000-07:00

a bigger picture!

2008-06-05T06:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a bigger picture of the Little Cloud! AND NOW WITH TEXT!

colour me happy.

2008-05-30T17:00:00.000-07:00

Here is the final for The Little Cloud! One of my summer projects will be to make it into a children's book and send it on its way!
GO TEAM! V!!

doodles

2008-05-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

oodles and oodles of doodles! At least that's what I wish I could say I've been doing! EYE EYE EYE, ME ME ME

In the last month I helped do some redesigning for CityLine, a rape crisis helpline/centre for teens in Ottawa. I guess I'll have an ad floating around on buses around the capital!

I've also been doing some little illustrations for a someone someone for a short story that he's written.

I lag with the updates, I know. And, soon I'll get back on the drawing in the last post! YEESH!

making love.

2008-04-18T09:57:00.000-07:00

I've started my spring fling with art.

mi & yuu.

2008-04-04T12:07:00.000-07:00

Here is a new sketch to celebrate spring! I have some long awaited drawing and painting to do.

beauty in the breakdown.

2008-03-01T19:52:00.000-08:00

some concepts i'm working on.

magic mystery tour

2008-02-20T11:49:00.000-08:00

took a break away from work to draw. all done with a mouse, because i rock. my hand is a tablet, although i bet it would have been faster with one. ^^

.trevah g.

2008-01-25T23:21:00.000-08:00

it's trevah!

a new found happiness!

2008-01-23T22:58:00.000-08:00

thanks to tessar lo for letting me hear what i needed to wake me up from my constant struggle with painting!

nataly is not a painter. she's a draw-er who's inlove with colour!

i'm through with this battle of trying to complete a piece that i lose pleasure with.

my passion is sketching and little doodles!! they make me smile!

post post post

2008-01-17T16:13:00.000-08:00

i love to draw.

go go go!

2008-01-15T14:55:00.000-08:00

How the hell did we end up in 2008 already? I wish i was in possession of the de lorean to travel back to when i was a mindless fun going kid. anyways. i've landed myself a "design" job in Brampton. i'm looking forward to my first day! i can just picture jill dallas's flustered face at the sound of this and being all like "you're an illustrator, and will NEVER be a graphic designer!" and she's right, i will never be a graphic designer nor do i have the desire to be one, i just need monies for now. ^^
this also means that it's almost time to move to toronto. finally.

anyways, i'm TRYING REALLY HARD to keep myself occupied with painting and drawing when not working and plan to keep this healthy routine through the year.

enjoi.

L O V E

2007-11-24T22:13:00.000-08:00

And WHAT love!!

I recently completed a painting for a man who is passionately inlove with his lady!
This piece is 3'X5' and all I can say is, funtimes.

p a i n t i n g

2007-11-18T09:37:00.000-08:00

This is a portrait of my lovely tesl friend candy and her mister.
She would even poke me to wake me up when I fell asleep in class.

I've been painting lately, only because I have a couple of commissions...it's kind of sad that for that reason only is why i'm painting. T_T

I'm currently in the works of a second commission for the dearest couple in the world!!

royal winter fair

2007-11-08T04:59:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I got my first taste of the Royal Winter Fair. It was a great big farm experience and poo paradise for flies. I got a couple of sketches in, which is why Sheridan students take field trips there. I don't recall this fair being something that we did during illustration. Maybe I just slept through the mention? Anyways, I saw some really fat bunnies, liddle piglets, fuzzy llamas, cows peeing and pooing, sheep being defuzzed, scultpures made out of butter! and got to eat a tasty sausage on a not so tasty stale bun, and had some hot apple dumpling with irene. YUM!

baby, it's cold outside...

2007-11-06T19:34:00.001-08:00

BBRRRRR it's getting cold outside. and here's another sketch while waiting for customers at cash 1

rain

2007-11-05T18:22:00.000-08:00

it's supposed to rain all week. i'm putting up a sketch i made at "deserres" (loomis) while waiting for customers at cash 1. i stared off drawing bushra's arm, then some mini shopping carts. this little girl was climbing inside like it was a tunnel. she was so cute. and then ofcourse, i had to add a sketch of my hands in there drawing.

today was my last class to teach for my TESL course. i am now fully certified to go overseas!

i have a couple of commissions that i'm working on at the moment. once i get those finished i'll be sure to put them up, and then maybe i can finally finish this painting of vivian that's been sitting in my room and collecting cobwebs and dust.

our good friend tessar is leaving us farely soon. T_T GOODLUCK TO TESSAR IN HIS NEW HOME, L.A .

rain, rain, rain, snow, rain.

<3

THANKSGIVING ALREADY?!

2007-09-25T16:59:00.000-07:00

wow. so it's almost october. WOW! i happen to use that expression alot now...it reminds me of juan. weird. anyways, so here's what's been going on with nataly since school has been out. all summer i've been teaching a kids art camp for the oakville academy. man, i didn't realize how fun making crafts with kids was...and tiring. although..i don't know if i would ever take that kind of job again. well, yes i would, if the number of kids went down. but, putting things into a bigger perspective, i've decided to put illustration on hiatus. what am i thinking?!? i need money to pay back my loan, and the safest most efficient way in which i've decided to go about this, is to teach english in korea. SOOOOO...i'm taking tesl starting october, and will hopefully be making my way overseas by next spring. the thought occurred to me that i might also try and do some illustration in korea in my downtime. maybe. just a thought. ^_^ on another note, my sister in law kat and i, have started our company, "little pea clothing"...although there are still alot of kinks to iron out, and many things still in the make. so, maybe later down the road you'll see something from us! other then that, i've started a new painting just for fun. it's of my roomate vivian, heehee. nothing out of the ordinary. i just felt the need to put some paint down and mix up some colours...something i've been missing all summer. i'm glad to see all my friends moving on up towards their own success. congrats youuuuu's. <3

BAHHHH!!! i also need to start a new sketchbook! it's been way too long.
so, stay tuned for more, FREQUENT updates. no more of these extended vacations.

SUMMER!

2007-05-23T15:01:00.001-07:00

okay. so it's been a month since school has been over, sigh. currently i'm working 2 stinky summer jobs: loomis and starscoops. i honestly can say i think i've had my share of helping customers with invitation inquiries and perfecting my ability to make the perfect icecream scoop.

i have no new art to share at the moment, but promise myself that i'll be sending out my mailers (soon to be existing) sometime soon. ? bum bum bum....

on another note, i will be painting at the distillery for luminato 2007. please come by and visit me on june 6th and june 7th sometime after 3pm. i'll be painting a mural and other little projects with 20 other artists.

i hope everyone's enjoying their summers so far!
come see me at starscoops and i'll make you fat!!

<3

coming out of hibernation.

2007-03-09T22:02:00.000-08:00

well. it's been a very long while since i've updated my blog, and it's high time that i did.
what an uneventful reading week that has recently passed. i don't know where the creativity and productivity took a vacation to, but it decided to return just earlier this week. my sleeping schedule is way off, but i seem to be content with what i've been producing, although, i would like to increase my productivity rate by 100%.

ok. so the deal is, i was about to upload a basket of fun of things i've been working on in the past couple of months, BUT the upoading was taking a decade. so i must save it for another night. i have to get home to bed. so, i leave you one piece of the first spread for my children's book for visual narrative.

enjoi.

burning bridges, fellowes highschool

2007-01-09T21:20:00.000-08:00

so here it is. enjoy the burning bridges of my shitty years at fellowes high school. the assignment was to draw up some past class mates from highschool that may have been of some significance to you, whether it be someone you hated, or someone you had a crush on. that's your job, to guess what these people meant to me.

asian persuasion

2006-12-16T12:44:00.000-08:00

So, here are some last pieces before I take a little blogger break.
The set of three girls is a personal project about going back to a place that you can call comfort or home, that I did for my interpretive class.
The second piece is just a silly self portrait that I did during my last few hours of homework time.

lucky star

2006-12-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

the time has come! YAY. lucky star is here.

the break has finally arrived...this is our last night in the studio before we say farewell to 2006.

i hope everyone has a M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S

and just to remind some peeps, i will be here unfortunately for pretty much the whole break except December 25-29.
so keep me company.

"I A M L U C K Y S T A R." (retarded robot voice)

come get some tasty lucky star cookies in the studio while they last.

C U T E

2006-12-08T20:33:00.000-08:00

i like this sketch.
it's kind of cute.

thanks shimon and yuta for sitting so still.

"DING"

2006-11-30T21:29:00.000-08:00

It's update time and I've decided that I like to draw. I'm only adding a couple of new chicken scratch sketches from the other day. I'm starting some new paintings for Harvey, which I will be posting up in the next several weeks. School is out in 2 weeks, and I couldn't be happier, although I'll miss all your purty faces. If need be, we'll hang out over Christmas holidays, other then that I'll be gone home to Pembroke for several days, then hibernating in my apt. YAY. I can't wait to sleep.

OH SO CUTE!

2006-11-23T21:17:00.000-08:00

I couldn't resist. I had to put up a picture of my nephew Sebastian. Mixed babies are soo cute...tell me a korean/swedish isn't damn cute. you better not.

shtudio time

2006-11-23T21:00:00.000-08:00

It's updating time in the studio. With my throbbing toe by my side, there's no excuse for me not to do any updating.

Here are some pieces that I have been working on lately.

The first piece was for my alter ego class. My alter ego, Guenevere Cecil Booth reveals her secret affairs as a young lass.
The second piece is a personal piece I'm doing up for my nephew, Sebastian. Oohhh..he's sooo cute, almost 4 months now.
The third piece is a project that I've whipped up for my interpretive class. I've given myself the task to make 15 christmas cards..which I have drilled myself to do over the past 2 days in the shtudio. They will also be available at the Illustration Christmas Sale happening in a couple of weeks.

Well...I hope that's enough eye candy to keep you busy for a little while. I'm so bad at this updating business.

ENJOI! ^_^

2006-11-12T01:10:00.000-08:00

My oh my..this is the kind of thing that will happen once in a full moon. Two posts in one night is very rare indeed. I couldn't help but rummage through my collection of assignments from almost 2 years ago( of which I don't know why I still hang on to them) after seeing the beginning of Simon and Yuta's pastel portraits. All I can remember about this one, is that I was rushing to get it done, and that my enthusiasm and care drowned once I hit below the neck=quick study. I miss having a drawing class.

2006-11-11T22:53:00.000-08:00

It has been a while my dear blogger. School is taking over my life now..it's crunch time, and I have little time to enjoy all the little things of life that I enjoy. *sigh* On another note, I did however enjoy painting this piece about dreams for class.

The studio is becoming a second home to me, as it already is to others. We finally got the second installment of our desks put in....except they're not exactly to par with what I envisioned. Just a plain jane cork board to tack up cheesy pics and sketches..WHERE'S THE SHELVING!?!!! I was very much looking forward to having a spot for a little plant or something. MUH.

Halloween Treats

2006-10-31T07:01:00.000-08:00

Jillian Tamaki's book 'Gilded Lilies' has finally turned up on shelves. You can purchase this bad boy at the Beguiling in Toronto.

Check out Drawn's review:
http://drawn.ca/2006/10/25/gilded-lilies-by-jillian-tamaki/

Oh Jillian, you gots some talent you do.

On another note, Erin just came home with a sweet ass pumpkin carved as 'Where the Wild Things Are' character.
It brings a tear to my eye to think of how dedicated this girl is to pumpkin carving.

OH MY GOD...i have so much homework to do.

2006-10-30T11:02:00.000-08:00

I've been trying to keep up with the homework and keep the balance of the other 'work' all in control. It was decided that Jeff and I needed to go out to dinner to keep me sane. Lucy's Seafood Kitchen filled us up real nice.

k a t a m a r i

2006-10-27T18:58:00.000-07:00

The rainy days are definately making me even more sleepy these days.
Lately school has become my number one fan. I'm so overwhelmed with assignments, and i'm pretty sure everyone else is feeling it too around this time. DISCIPLINE!!! NEED MORE DISCIPLINE! ^_^ I just finished playing another round of Katamari..oh jeeze..that game is going to be the end of me, and Erin is soon going to bring home Karamari 2...that will be the end of us both. I wouldn't say playing that game is a waste of time at all, I'm pleased to how far I have gotten that little prince. I now have the eternal 3 moon and created a bonus star. Yeah, you might think of me differently after you read this entry, but sometimes you just need a little game to play in your spare time. Anyways, it's not like I'm the only one hooked on that game, everyone in class is singing the game's songs cuz they're so darn cute and catchy.

I L O V E Y O U K A T A M A R I ! ! ! <3

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2006-10-25T22:59:00.000-07:00

this is my first blog! i just wanted to fit in with the rest of the fellow bloggers in ills.