Pink Girl Print now Available!

Hi there, my Pink girl pinup is now available for 11x17 print! I'm selling them for $20, and they come on glossy paper. Email if you would like to place an order, I'm going to set up an online store for my prints soon. To order, email me at ritalux (at) live (dot) com, and payment is thru Paypal. Makes a great gift! xo rita

My Illustrations for Westfield Shopping Centers!

My Illustrations for Westfield shopping centers are out! They are in the LA times Saturday's paper on page A25 and Sunday's paper on A22. And in Real Simple magazine December issue! Woo! I'll post some of that art soon. yay!

Animal Instinct Art Show

I was contacted recently to participate in the Animal Instinct Art show benefitting the Humane Society at The ARTery @ The LAB in Costa Mesa. The curator pointed out drawings I made of snails, so I'm going to paint them up a bit, and have them in the show! More details of the event...

"Animal Instinct"
Opening reception:
Saturday, November 7th 2009, 7-11pm
Food & Drinks
Photobooth by Visual Adhesive
Live Art by Yuki Miyazaki

Runs November 7th-15th

The ARTery Gallery @ the LAB
2930 Bristol Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

* All works will feature one or more animals.
* The purpose of the exhibition will be to celebrate animals and
raise money to benefit the Humane Society of the United States.

More info here http://www.animalinstinctartshow.blogspot.com/
If you're in the area, come by!

Feather Hood

Fall is here, the sun is still shining and the air is getting cooler. A friend pointed out this sketch in one of my books a while back, and I did think it was nice. Today I saw this amazing Chinese comic book artist/painter Bin Zhang, and was impressed. Here is his blog,
http://resh01.blogspot.com/2007/06/benjamin-zhang-bin-aka-benjamin.html .

Just amazing painting, added to art heroes, wow! So confident and wild with color .. dang so radical. Was inspired. So I painted up my little sketch. I also had an slip selecting the lines, but it ended up looking really cool, so I made something of that as well. 2 versions of Feather Hood...Fall in LA. :)

Flower Shade

Photo and Drawing combo. I'm going to be experimenting more with this..

Cool Dressers

A few images of People on Lookbook.nu that inspire me.

Ivy Cartoon

So my best friend Ivy, were talking online last week and she made a joke that she is an internet cartoon. I was so amused and inspired that I drew some sketches of her as her wild character self. Ivy Something internet legend! I'll be working this.