Opening on the 7th of November at the Roq La Rue Gallery is a two-man show featuring Tessar Lo and Moira Hahn. Details are here.

Tessar Lo was born in Indonesia and raised in Canada and now works out of LA, California. He describes his work as an exploration of themes, mystery, histories, growth/change, perception and time. There is a nice interview of him here.

Moira Hahn is an American artist from Boston and earned her MFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. She counts Persian miniatures, Tibetan Thanka paintings, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, Indian animal drawings and Chinese guardian figures as part of her influences.

Amazing young artists Yuta Onoda and Nimit Malavia who were previously featured on startdrawing, will be joining Dominique Fung and Martha Chan for project: gallery's fresh faces exhibition!

Check out their blogs for sneak previews of their work: Yuta | Nimit | Dominique | Martha 

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(from the project gallery website) Los Angeles, CA - project:gallery is excited to bring the Canadian quartet of Nimit Malavia, Yuta Onoda, Dominique Fung and Martha Chan to Los Angeles for their first large scale exhibition. Each has sold out work in recent group shows, but now showcase their largest bodies of work to date. All four emerging artists work are being eagerly anticipated by collectors - before each artist launches with larger shows next year in Seattle, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego and NY.

Recognized for bringing forward some of the most cutting edge talent, project's first "fresh faces" show in 2007 gave you Edwin Ushiro, Nate Frizzell, Rebecca Urias and Derek Albeck.

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Artist reception is on Saturday, September 6th 2008 7-10pm. Visit the project:gallery website for more details.

From the Official Website:

"Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totor Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much loved character "Totoro"

Over 200 top international artists from animation, illustration, and comics are donating artwork especially created for this cause."

Find out more by visiting totoroforestproject.org

Matt Huynh, Haline Ly and Will Loeng are finally launching their new book, titled "Midnight Morning"

The publication consists of distinctive illustration series celebrating shared experiences of love and devastation by these 3 amazing artists.

From the previous Cut & Paste, these artists prove themselves to be classiflied as "Sydney best designers". Matt won the damn thing so no doubt about how good he is, Haline's and Will's works are also very famous for their creativity and uniqueness.

Will they live up to the expectation? Will Matt releases his inner elephants? Will Heline make another artwork out of Play Dough? The only way to find out is to attend this very special event:

Midnight Morning - Book Lauch & Exhibition.
When: 6-9 pm, 17 July
Where: 12 O'Connell St, Newtown (Sydney)
more info at www.popperbox.com/midnightmorning

In conclusion: It feels like our prays to the God of comic art (aka James Jeans) has been answered. This is must go event for lovers of Illustration and comic arts.

see you all there :)

Sketchtravel is a global collaborative project initiated by Daisuke Tsutsumi (Dice) and Gérald Guerlais. It brings together some very talented artists from around the world, including Sang Jun Lee, Tadahiro Uesugi , James Jean, Vincent N'Guyen, and many more.

The idea is to allow the artists to create art on a single page and hand it over (physically, not postmailed- whatever the time needed, whatever the distance) to the next participant. Pictures of the sketchbook's journey are taken as it travels the world and are posted on the blog.

The official site is at http://www.sketchtravel.com.