Gouache Painting I Did As A Demo For High School Students

This warm and cozy illo for Wassail, an amazing-sounding Lower East Side cider bar, appeared in the Bar Tab column of the New Yorker’s April 10th issue. You can read the article online here. Thanks to my AD Deanna Donegan!

It's Ping Zhu's birthday today! ♥ 

Tag! You're it! The rules are to state 5 random facts about yourself. Then, go to ten blogs and tell them that they are it!

get out of here with that noise.

There are lots of things to love about springtime.  One being buttercups, which may be the cutest flower.  One thing not to love about springtime, is the explosion in the stink bug population.  I used to not mind them.  They don't do anything, they're slow and catch-able so you can banish them from your house.  No big deal!  But in the building I work at they are taking over!  To the point that one found its way onto my head, and now I mind them a little more.  Meanwhile, a coffee cup full of buttercups picked for me by one of my bosses' kids sits on my desk, and I just wished that if anything was going to be in my hair, why couldn't it be those little flowers instead of an imposing stink bug...

Not a question, but... beautiful work, keep it up!

thanks very much! I shall!

Hey, I'm a sophomore at MICA and I'll hopefully be taking your digital illustration class next semester. I thought your name sounded familiar and when I looked you up I saw that I've already been following you on tumblr, which was a really weird small-world moment. I just wanted to say hi, I love your work, and that I hope I can get into your class before it fills up!

Thanks! I hope you can too, but I think it HAS filled up already (my gosh!).

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It's really sweet to see my Alphabirds in the little hands of little kids. I hope she likes her new bird letter friends! You can buy prints of my Alphabirds and other children's-themed artwork at The Littlest Mammoth.

Ava unwrapping her birthday present! Alphabirds by @andreakalfas (Taken with instagram)

The Cosmic Shroud

This is The Cosmic Shroud. I created him for Rotopol's Super Villains exhibit opening November 25 in Kassel, Germany. There are tons of really excellent artists taking part including Hellen Jo and Victo Ngai. This was a lot of fun, and I was so happy to be invited to take part. I wish I could be at the opening! Check out Rotopol's site here for more details.

Here's my little backstory on the Shroud (warning - real nerdy):

The Cosmic Shroud burst from the shadow of a lunar eclipse, and roams the galaxy compressing matter into singularities for absorption. It hunts anything from space-traveling heroes, to satellites and space stations. It must encircle its victims with its shroud in order to compress them however, so the larger the target, the longer it takes the Cosmic Shroud to unfurl and bind. If you're quick enough, you can escape it, but as yet nothing has successfully defeated this villain. Missiles and beams alike pass through it, and it can't be contained any more than a shadow can. If spotted, avoid at all costs.

Last night was another Pizza Party After Dark at The Ottobar in Baltimore where The NeverEnding Story was shown and my poster was sold (also shirts!). It was a blast. If you're in the Baltimore area, get out here every last Sunday of every month for free movies, free pizza and rad screen-printed posters & shirts by Pizza Party Printing.

You can get said rad screen-printed goods and my NeverEnding Story shirt (poster coming soon) here!

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween full of ghostly seances and congress with the spirits...