Woman Power 03- Sue Coe

Sue Coe (born 1951 in Tamworth, Staffordshire) is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing and printmaking, often in the form of illustrated books and comics. She grew up close to a slaughterhouse and developed a passion to stop cruelty to animals. Coe studied at the Royal College of Art in London, lived in New York City from 1972 to 2001. She currently lives in upstate New York. Her work is highly political, often directed against capitalism and cruelty to animals.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, RAW, and Time magazine, and her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museum around the world, including New York's Museum of Modern Art. Her previous books include How to Commit Suicide in South Africa (1983), X (1986), Dead Meat (1996) and Pit's Letter (2000). Judith Brody co-authored Bully with Coe in 2004.

H.O.T - final step!

One of my big dream is that having all these silkscreen equipments (should be exactly the same) in my house. So that I can print all the time at home FOREVER! :D
I love you.
I love you.
Waited for drying screens. A nice crab image printed by Dominick in 2008 on my apron! I really want to say goodbye to wearing my Vans. (want to be a woman!)

The most labor-intensive part of the book, folding, gluing, printing cover ( the real BIACH!), and binding. Standing for 6 hours for folding them all... and they HAD TO be all precise!!!
Bonus pic- Murray's Bagels in Chelsea where is Tomi and I's hot spot. I went twice in last week for having plain Tofu cream cheese bagel for dinner. haha (never for breakfast... sorry, too heavy...) Their tofu cream cheese is DOPE!

It's about time! :D

SVA MFA Illustration 2011 Thesis show!

Click HERE to see the evite. Here's the invitation card. We drew each other. (card design by Philip Cheaney)
Luckly, I picked Jess's name. haha! My drawing of Jess Worby who is one of the talented humblest peer illustrators around me. He naturally made me laugh in good ways all the time. :)
More luckly, Philip picked my name!! I was honored to be drawn by Philip Cheaney who is one of my favorite classmates!Bonus pic- I'm going to be a 귀신 soon. I have the longest hair I've never had in 10 years! wahaha~~ should cut at least 5 inches soon. or grow my hair with finger and toe nails and becomes a fortune teller on the 21st street. :P
Here is the info of our thesis show.

Time	Thursday, May 5 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	School of Visual Arts Student Gallery, 601 West 26th St, 15th floor, New York, NY

Mark your calender, save the date!
All welcomes to come to the show! I'll see you there and let's have fun!! :D

H.O.T- a month left!

SVA Printshop where I spent most of my time this semester.
Important elements for silkscreen.
C- You rock tapes.
M- My love love love transparency!
Y- Sharpie paint marker you dope.
K - Don't ever ignore a tiny piece of cardboard.
Bonus pic- my "G.B.F" Will and I took a commencement photo few days ago. I just love the awkwardness of us and the pink background. Sorry to steal this photo... haha but we needed to have fun!

H.O.T- Almost!

Can you believe that I printed the last page today?!!! SMILE!!! :D

H.O.T got into IPCNY!

I got an exciting news yesterday from IPCNY.
Two pieces of H.O.T got into their New Prints 2011/Summer.
All my idols were exhibited from the gallery, so it's my big honor to be in.
Sorry to not post my new work until May, but it will be better you check out them at our thesis show!

SVA MFAI Thesis show opening: May 5th 6-8pm at SVA gallery in Chelsea. (I'll post details later)

IPCNY show will run from June 9, 2011 - July 29, 2011.
The opening reception will be Thursday, June 9, with an artist's reception from 5 to 6pm, followed by the public opening from 6 to 8pm.

Please mark your calendar!
I can't wait until May... especially in this beautiful weather!!!
Thanks again!!
:D

Oh, Special Thanks to David Sandlin & Josh Cochran!! xoxo

Silver award from Society of Illustrators LA!! ♥

Silver award for my American Boys book from SILA 49.
Society of illustrators NY 52.
Yay, my ball head is there!
Desire series looks really good!
Bonus pic: The queen of spades at the Metropolitan Opera. ( hopefully it became my new hobby going to Opera!)

Needless to say, I LOVE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS both NY and LA!!!
I got an unexpected package from LA yesterday, and the box included the beautiful silver award!
Thanks so much, and endless love to SILA and SINY!

"Have a good, productive break--work! Work! Work!" -David Sandlin
The last sentence of David's e-mail made me a dork-nerd girl again, but I AM happy!!! ye...s... really...
Today is the last day of my last spring break, and I wish tomorrow is May 13th! haha

It smells like spring already! Have a sweet spring of 2011!
:D

Meat icons

Meat icons.

Ten veggie icons

Can't really wait to finish my H.O.T book!
It was all my heart in for about a year.
Almost there!! :D

The birth of VEGAN venus- H.O.T

View from my studio.
Last Month's critique. Half done at that time!

I finally ran out of printing all the separations that I made today. I had a lot fun so far!
Now I have to do more idea sketches for four more pages that I have to entirely change.
AWWWW..... JOSH! and DAVID!!!! boooooooooo!
I was too lazy to make good-looking idea sketches, so then I kept sending crabs to my heroes, and they didn't even look at it. ha! hahahahaha....
So I made my mind to make at least 3 sketches for each with all my heart in it... :D
I AM SORRY.... ha....hahahahaha.

This year my second OPT started after May.
When I realized it was my second time to extend to stay in America, I was really sad for a while.
There's nothing wrong with the second OPT, but it made me miss home. a lot.

In 2009, when I graduated my undergrad school at SVA, There's a lot of reasons I have to stay in America.
And I was like a dreamy, and some dreams came true fortunately.

Now, in 2011, I found there's only one reason I have to stay in America.
Only one reason is not good enough, and the one reason is I love what I'm doing here.
So then, I decided to make another important reason to stay in America. or I have to. or I must.
After that, I'll make ten more reasons.

Have a good break!
I'll have fun with all my sketches!!... :)