Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA

This month I  participated in an amazing event!!  Sanrio (aka hello kitty) had GIANT birthday bash to celebrate it’s 50th year making adorable characters and goodies ♥  The party was  down in LA and part of the main event was an amazing gallery show curated by JapanLA, Talented artists from all over the globe  ( Tokidoki, Camilla d’Errico, Buff Monster, Joe Ledbetter, Bei Badgirl, Audry Kawasaki and more)  had been invited to create work inspired by and paying tribute to Sanrio~ and I was one of them!  Ever since I was a little girl I have always had a special place in my heart for Sanrio products and characters, so to get the honor to  make a piece with the characters for such an amazing event with artists I admire… well needless to say I was jumping for joy when I got the invite!

For this show I created 3 pieces~ My large character explosion piece  “candy candy kitty dreams” contains just about every character sanrio wished to honor at this event + was an excellent chance for me to use this amazing ornate frame I had thrifted almost 2 years ago… I was saving it for a special show haha.  I also created two smaller pieces in custom ornate frames for the characters “spottie dottie”  the sweet dalmatian little girl, and the thunder brothers “goropikadon”which are a much older character set, but so adorable!

“Thunder Sisters” Goro, Pinka, Don tribute piece ♥ Still for sale at JapanLA

“Darling Dottie is so Spottie” Spottie Dottie tribute piece ♥ Still for sale at JapanLA

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In the art zone at my Sanrio signing~ getting photobombed by JapanLA! ♥

I drove down to attend VIP night plus a few other event nights with Nara, what an amazing exp! Nerd Party sponsored by LoungeFly, Hello Kitty Prom, Food trucks… I played and ate for 2 weeks solid!  My large piece sold before the VIP showing even started~ apparently 4 people wanted to buy it ♥ aaaah what an honor!!! The response online with the articles and blogs has also been so warm that the gallery and Sanrio allowed me to offer everyone a print series on the “Candy-candy kitty dreams” !

The Giclée prints are 19″x9.5″ and priced at $75 a print~  edition of 100! After a week in LA Nara had to go back to his studio, so  I drove back up to SF to drop him off, switch out my luggage,  run off my prints, and head back down in time for the signing! It was a happy chaos! Nov 12th I arrived back in LA to have more Sanrio fun and had a wonderful afternoon signing prints and adding special hand details and sparkles to each. It has been a while since I set up a table and got to sign prints, so it was great to meet some new faces and chat with you guys!!

** This edition of 100 SOLD OUT, thank you SO much to everyone that purchased a print! I hope you enjoy the print as much as I enjoyed making it**

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