Princess and the Wolf

Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, I had a very multi-cultural upbringing. This allowed me to be influenced by a number of cultures and belief systems that tend to show up in my work, whether it be conscious or subconscious. I grew up always being around some form of art, either Chinese brush paintings on some relatives or friends wall, graffiti art along the 10 freeway during the early 90’s, or just good old-fashioned American illustration in children’s books and comics. As I grew older art and music became huge influences in my life and also kept me out of trouble. Soon the two became one when doing illustration work while in and out of school. Art school gave me the fundamental tools of drawing and painting, which you could say were beaten into me by a method of classical training. However, school also taught me everything I wanted to rebel against which I think helped me shape an artistic style. Right now I’m just trying to get recognized to gain more exposure so that I can actually make a career out of drawing and painting. Thank Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.