Lincoln Park, San Francisco

During our last San Francisco visit, we drove around the bay and stopped by Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of SF, famous for Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" sculpture in the Court of Honor. The hill used to be a Chinese cemetery now Lincoln Park Golf Course and offers one of the best views to Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) from the Pacific Ocean side.
Here, Rocket takes a little break playing golf against the backdrop of GGB in between of our long Bay drive.

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Chicago

For some illustrations it takes a looooooooong time to complete and this Chicago poster is absolutely one of them to us. We still can't believe that it took only a couple of hours for the actual drawing part as I've been thinking about the image more than four years since introducing "Rocket Launch" collection.
Here's our little tribute to the Windy City, one of the amazing places in U.S.A. famous for their architecture and design. Someday, let's fly over the City of Chicago on a balloon like Rocket does here.

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Rockefeller Center, NYC

Rocket became the Greek god Prometheus who brought fire to humans. As the building complex is famous for Art Deco style, we used Avant Garde typeface to reflect the era.

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[Rocket on Capitol Hill]

Although it's only April, Rocket can't wait to visit D.C. to attend Fourth of July Fireworks there. He wish to conduct the whole show like the "Mickey Mouse" did in "Fantasia movie" as he can do much better job being a mighty dog not a mouse. Do you agree?

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The Bean!

 [Cloud Gate, a.k.a. "The Bean"]
British artist Anish Kapoor created this public sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park using a huge number of individual stainless steel plates and polishing thousands of hours to achieve the seamless surface. The Bean was situated in front of Michigan Ave. back-dropped by beautiful Chicago buildings facing Lake Michigan. It's one of the most favored places by Chicagoans since first appeared in 2006. When Rocket first saw the sculpture in previous trips to Chicago, he wished Myunghye to draw it sometime soon as he also liked it soooooo much. Finally, here is the Bean with Rocket.

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California Quail

From cold winter days till spring time, these California Quails visit our house in high mountains in Utah, where we live currently. They usually come in a group of 10-15 to pick up seeds dropped by little birds from a bird feeder that we put out.
We caution our two dogs not to bother their meal time yet, I'm sure the dogs enjoy their pass time favorite job - bird chasing.


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Go Lions!

Art Institute of Chicago is my the most favorite museum in the world... I can say... in the world. It's the first art museum that I visited in U.S. back in 30 years ago when I came to Chicago for graduate school. I still clearly remember seeing their iconic master piece, "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat for the first time. How wonderful to witness the little dots of the painting in person with my naked eyes!
As the museum is now the second largest one in US after NYC's Metropolitan Museum with their new Modern Wing opened in 2009 behind the railroad and main building on the Michigan Avenue, I can see a lot more art in a very pleasant and spacious place.

Here's Rocket riding one of the two lion statues (Kemeys, bronze 1893) flanking the Institute's main entrances on the Michigan Ave. Next two photos are the famous "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" in full size and detail showing the dots.

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Finally, here's Neva the Greyhound, formerly a racing dog. We met her about two years ago at SuperZoo in Las Vegas as she visited our booth to review Paper Russells products. Since Neva retired from her profession four year back then, she had two litters, we heard. She was a very elegant mother wearing lavender essential oil at the time, which calmed all of us around.

If anyone knows Neva's mom, please let her know that we're looking for them both. We'd like to give them a little framed print of Neva's portrait illustration that we just completed as a small token of appreciation for being our model.

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Burton the Golde Retriever

We want to share another card image of Burton, the Golden Retriever. Jay, Butron's father told us, "Burton is a certified therapy dog and works at the local senior living facilities and Children’s hospitals in the SF Bay Area. All the patients love him and we are going to tell them about your site so they can order cards of him!" -- Thank you Jay. We're happy to share Burton's Golden smiles with our customers, too.

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Rocket in SF Union Square

I like people watching at SF Union Square. Everyday, there are so many different kinds of people from all over the world visiting the place. One day, I saw an art fair at the square thinking Rocket would love to do the people watching with me while selling his own drawings.

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Monster the Savannah Cat

This is Monster, Savannah Cat, who lives in Park City, UT., in a beautiful mansion on top of the hill overlooking the world famous ski resort. He moves like an elegant ballerina practicing her steps - very gracefully yet very agile. He is very social but will let you know if he doesn't like you in his own Monster style.

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Goose the French Bulldong says...

"It's your birthday. Relax and enjoy!"

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Sailing in the SF Bay

It's raining cats and dogs in the mountains past several days and I'm dreaming about the beautiful sunshine and sailing boats in the SF Bay - missing the gorgeous view under the Golden Gate Bridge. - Sep. 14, 2014

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SURPRISE!

This is Myunghye's new greeting card design that we need a simple yet perfect inside greeting. If you have a brilliant idea, please share with us. Once we take your verse, we'll send you a pack of cards as a small token of THANK YOU when we publish the design. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
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The final greeting printed inside is,

"SURPRISE! It's your birthday. Wishing you great laughs all day long."

Thanks for letting us picking your brains. :-)

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Prince the Pitbull

Finished drawing of Prince the Pitbull for Jan. 2013 Collection (or even earlier.) His laugh is definitely contagious. Thanks to Amy for the sweet photo.

Let's laugh again.

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Oreo the Parti-Poodle

Jenny talks about Oreo.
"Oreo is 15 months old, and is a female. We found her on the internet, and drove from our home, in So. California, to British Columbia, Canada, to pick her up.
She is very sweet, but still being a puppy, is quite exuberant! Oreo is a Parti Standard Poodle. She has two little sisters, both white, and both toy poodle rescues. Her favorite thing is to run back and forth around the yard; pretending she's a race horse.

If Oreo could talk, she'd tell you how much she likes taking a walk. Wherever she goes, people stop to ask about her, because she's so unusual-looking. She likes to stand on her hind legs, pumping her front legs up and down, when she's excited, which is whenever she sees a human and or, another dog."

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Goose the French Bulldog

Nicole shares a story about Goose, a French Bulldog. "I met him at the San Diego Airport after his quick flight from Phoenix. He was so tiny and fit in the palm of my hand. Living in San Diego, one would think Goose likes the beach and the water. No way! He does not even like to get his paws wet! Goose is mostly fond of his orange ball and treats and any affection he can get from humans. In fact, he prefers human companionship to canine companionship and most often just avoids other dogs."

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One Bed and Two Beagles

Wanted to share a story about these two Beagles by Laura Isley that my drawing was based on. "...we had to put the older dog, Ziggy (on the left), down due to thyroid cancer. He was only 10 years old. Willis was barely a year old and was with us in the room because the vet wanted to make sure he knew not to look for Ziggy anymore. It was absolutely heartbreaking, but necessary so as not to prolong Ziggy’s suffering. We were lucky to have both dogs together for a year, however, and your drawing has captured an image of them at their sweetest. Willis was only 10 weeks old when we got him last year and introduced him to his new beagle pal, Ziggy. While Ziggy was annoyed by Willis’ puppy exuberance at first, it did not take long for these fellows to bond and cuddle up daily as exemplified by your artwork." - 8/1/2013

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We're back!

After a long hiatus since our first blog was posted on Sep. 2012, we decided to resume the posting to reconnect with our customers and friends like you. Please re-follow us or visit us from time to time. In return, we'll share our newest drawings even before they are published - hotter than hot off the press.

Thanks for your interest in Paper Russells.

Let's talk!

MyungHye

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Rocket in New York

Whereas it's so noisy in the streets of New York with jam packed traffic, fast walking people, ever changing flashy billboards, car noises, etc., there is surreal quietness on top of highrises as they are so much removed from the ground level.

Here's Rocket went further up to the low hanging crescent to enjoy the starry lights and the lady in the city, Chrysler building.

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