I lost my Appetite… for certain things around me. I’m looking for things “broaden the horizon” but all I find are spoons! I think it’s time to schedule a move this year!
This WEEKEND in LA @ La LUZ DE JESUS 25
This weekend, I will have a piece at the La Luz De Jesus 25 HUGE GROUP SHOW!!
Here’s a preview of my oil painting, “Of Fractals”
Las Vegas’ First Friday I will have two pieces inspired by literature in the Whirlygig’s Juried Show. The show in inspired by literature for the Las Vegas Book Festival in NOVEMBER.
Here are images of my pieces. Wish me luck this Friday!
“Extensions of the Sundered” by Cristina Natsuko Paulos
Graphite Dust, charcoal, and pastel on bond paper
2011
Inspired by themes from “The Story of O” by Pauline Réage
“Lonesome Traveler” by Cristina Natsuko Paulos
Watercolour and pen on watercolor paper
2008
Inspired by themes from Gulliver’s Travels PART 1
“Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the law of hospitality to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk on my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creatures as I must appear to them.” - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1, Ch. 1
If you may have heard, I was in a recent car accident in August and have injuries from the crash. I’m trying to raise money for my ongoing weekly treatments at the UMC burn care.
I made a few new prints at my online shop to help raise some extra cash.
Don’t forget to check out old favorites like my hanafuda cards.
“Meow Meow” Cosmo-kun
I spoke a little about my Gallery 1988‘s Crazy for Cult piece with Platinum Cheese online site. 
I talk about my interpretation of Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” through my art piece, “Memory of a Woman with a Blue Key”.
Please check out full interview here
“CRAZY 4 CULT 5″
100 artists take aim at classic cult films
On exhibit until:
July 8 – July 30, 2011
You can check out my piece along many awesome pieces until the end of July!
I’m featured in .default magazine, Issue # 13
.default, a magazine of design, art, culture, fashion and music. .default aims to bring together artists from different fields to build an effective platform in the rapidly growing Internet world. Available in English and Turkish, free of charge, at www.defaultmagazine.com , with articles each month featuring new artists and a wide variety of topics.
There is an Artist feature of my mirror twin work, please check out pages 82-89 for the interview.
An ironic world of cartoonsThis emerging artist is all about her drawings,. default proudly presents Cristina Paulos, the rising star of the art world with illustrations and animations that will drag you deep into the semi-dark, semi-colorful yet always infinity world of imagination and much more.
-Buğu Melis Çağlayan, default magazine issue #13
My portrait show is now down and I wanted to make a blog post featuring of my favorite works from the series and the people in the artwork!
La Rose Muerta (Cristina), Burlesque Performer and Costume Designer. She was more interested in a the Costume BRA in Design School, then the usual costumes assignments in Costume Design major. It’s no surprised she is now part of the Las Vegas Burlesque Scene. She is has a big role in the LV burlesques scene as she is designing custom costumes for many of the performers in Las Vegas Burlesque. She works one and one with the burlesques dancers, to create original customes, that are widing the range of performance styles. She quirky, cute and has a good attitude. Every artwork I drew of her was just sooo CUTE. Good friends with Cha Cha Velour (who I also captured for the project). Her costumes are upping a notch in the Burlesque Community! You can see her performing at Boomers with her own burleque performance act that includes a large banana.
PJ in Green, ”Like”
PJ Perez, one of my very favorite pieces I did. Creating this portrait of PJ was very interesting, because I drew him 20 years plus his age. PJ is a young guy. I think I probably just captured PJ’s old soul.
Grouping of Portraits, “Localized Anonymity”. Blackbird Studios, June 2011
My memory of Vered Galor, “The Ador of Vered Galor”
Vered Galor, is an artist. I’m very much a fan of her work on GLASS, it’s beautiful,strong and powerful, which plays with the medium and relationship with the fragile-ness of glass. I painted two paintings by memory one of Vered and one of Cindy Funkhouser. I learned that it takes much convincing to have an older woman agree to let them paint them. (Probably because our culture is too obsessed with youth of woman or something like that, I wouldn’t get into that) Vered agreed to let me paint her only by memory alone. This piece came out the most abstracted then the rest. Vered also loved the piece after completion, and that meant a lot to me. Vered recently moved to Las Vegas a few months ago. I’m still trying to convince Vered in staying in Vegas, she hates the place. She finds the Vegas culture SHALLOW and superficial (and some more words after that).
I think at times Vegas is a very hard place for artists to live in too. Artists are very sensitive to our surroundings. Vegas Strip can be sensor overload, and it’s also a valley surrounded by mountains which makes you feel a little like your sinking underwater. But I know where my exits are (the 15 fwy and the airport), so knowing this makes me feel more at ease and I also know how to swim.
HEART -Cristina
Part 2 and 3 coming soon.
Crazy for Cult at Gallery 1988LA, is just a few weeks away!
So many cult classic films to choose from! I picked the Lynch’s ” Mulholland Drive“. It’s one of my favorite Lynch films. I’ve seen it many times, so it was a good choice for me to create a theme piece. I love how the mystery unfolds on screen and the noir themes. I like the unclarity and dreamlike storytelling. It feels like a memory, how you remember something, and then you retell it and retell it and the reality changes. I love the film for all this! Lynch will slip in silly dialogue, to never take yourself too serious! It’s so great! I heart it! Master Lynch!
“Woman with Mysterious Blue Key”, watercolour, graphite, acrylic paint, ink, and scarlet dye on acid-fee watercolour FRAMED.
DETAIL of Artwork without frame
I created a very simple piece, it’s a memory of the woman with a blue key. SIMPLE, as that. (Inspired by Lynch’s Mulholland Drive)
The genres of theme shows, has caused a bit of confusion for me. (Is it okay that I drawing your characters, mr. and ms. filmmaker?) Then I realized that films, toys and tv raised us. We all have a connection to it. It’s always fun to create the work for them. It’s like a thank you to the film makers who made the films.
I like it!
P.S. my first choice was to do a piece on “Showgirls”, but I only seen the film once and can’t remember the whole film. Memorable things I remember: Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) from Saved by the Bells acting and the sex pool scene (looked like a shark attack). I couldn’t find the movie streaming anywhere online! So I choose to go with a film I love and I’ve seen the most.
-C
This Sunday is a great fundraiser to help raise money for The Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada, Circus Couture.
Circus Couture 2011 will take place at
The Joint
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
June 26th, 2011
The theme of this year’s Circus Couture event is REVOLUTION
All proceeds benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the world’s largest volunteer driven fundraising organization for childhood cancer research. Money raised at the event will be granted to The Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada- Nevada’s only childhood cancer center where children can receive medical care regardless of their parent’s ability to pay for services.
You can order tickets in advance online for 35 dollars or purchase tickets at the door for 45 dollars
You can check out Fox 5 segment on Circus Couture here
Below is a beautiful drawing I did, for donation.
The piece, “Drawing of Woman in Pink”, shows a very simple abstracted female, with confused pinks marks hinting at the color movement in her form, informing of the raw emotion of the feminine, with pink showing as the cultural awareness symbol of Breast Cancer. ” -Cristina Natsuko Paulos
This is the second year I donated a piece for the event. I believe in the cause and the people who run the event.
You can help by purchasing tickets and biding on artwork. You can view the auction online :here:
What is great about fundraisers they help communities as well as change the world. I have met some of the nicest and supportive people here. I root of Las Vegas.
I think, Las Vegas is sort of everyone’s city whether you live here or not.
