Nomi Chi

Flombagoo

2011-11-25T00:35:00.001-08:00

The Forest Charlatan Tells us a Story
Gouache, watercolour on paper

Soft Endoplasmic Reticulum Oil on Canvas

Apocalyptic Visions as Experienced Through the Nervous System of a Jellyfish
oil on canvas

Hey folks! Here's some new pieces I contributed to Kristian Adam's show. (he's a cool feller - check out his stuff here http://www.kristianadam.com/)

I feel like this blog has seen its share of empty promises, but I *am* trying to stay on top of things. At the moment, I spend so much time producing (though not always being productive) I barely have time to document my work, and rarely have the time to share said documentation.

I am getting quite burnt out at this point, I'm not sure how exactly I survived this month. Participated in 4 art shows, did well on midterms, didn't get fired from my job due to neglecting my tattoo clients. A well deserved pat on the back from me to me. I keep saying that I need to take a break from shows and over-booking artistic obligations but it doesn't seem to work that way.

Ah well. Back to the drawing board.

more @ http://www.nomi-chi.com

a this and a that

2011-11-11T23:41:00.001-08:00

Couple of things from Kristian Adam's show "Flombagoo"
There's a LOT more, but I will update later :)

(collabo with Kris!)
http://www.kristianadam.com/illustration/

2011-11-01T12:23:00.001-07:00

FLOMBAGOO @ AYDEN GALLERY.
Nov 4 - Dec4
New paintings by Kristian Adam, feat. Nomi Chi (that's me, omg), Shwa, Russell Alton, Megan Majewski, Kelly Haigh, Bling Squared.

Opening November 4th, 2011 - 7pm to 11pm
Facebook here yo: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=291981224147293

Will upload pile o paintings once I get them documented (after this wkd hopefully)
xox
N

Some tattoos.

2011-08-07T20:49:00.000-07:00

Some tattoos I've been working on/done over the summer.
Been busy.
xx
N

SKEtchdate.

2011-07-14T21:15:00.000-07:00

If you haven't noticed already, I've had to bail on my "1 art a day" project for this blog. The pressure of not only making something, but also documenting and uploading it on a daily basis is just too much considering my current workload.

But good news. I am going to be in a big show come November. Gonna do lots of big fat rad paintings. More info to be leaked closer to the showdate.

Last page of my School year moleskine :) Monkey business.

... And I bought a watercolor moleskine. But I don't like the paper very much. I wish it was some nice smooth hotpress paper. Oh well.

weak sketches from amsterdam

I'm no rembrandt.

gloop.

I painted this after not having panted the human face/figure in far too long ... obvs.

Some aliens, girl on the plane.

Broken moleskine cherry

Photo update: Amsterdam and pear-ree

2011-07-14T20:53:00.000-07:00

Kickin' stones. Paris.

Tourist shot.

Noooo.

AWW YEA THATS WHAT I'M TALKIN.

Tiny narrow alleyway leading into the red light district

Amsterdam street names are the bomb.

Fucking cutie.

Yessss.

Biketown.

Delish meat.

AND SOME GEMS FROM MY PHONE.

LOOK WHAT I BOUGHT.

my ride.

:)

Cya later Europe.

I was gonna update my blog, but then I got high.

2011-05-16T03:04:00.000-07:00

Well, not exactly.
But I do leave for Amsterdam tomorrow.
Will be back in a week or so with oodles of titillating images of all kinds of mediums.

For now, here's a cute painting for the Gallery Nucleus PIN Project!

N

Time floats by at the bottom of the river

2011-04-27T01:46:00.000-07:00

Oooo my. hi hi hi.
School's out! Which means my schedule is free of homework!!!! .... And full of tattoo/art gallery stuff. No rest for the wick, I say.

There is a tonne of stuff I am still needing to scan (And I am getting my own scanner this weekend. Stoked? Stoked.) But for now, please accept my meager offer to the lords of updates.

So here's March 20th - April 3rd.
I'm the worst blogger ever. Sorry :)
N

I posted a really crappypic of this lady a long time ago. Here's a better vers.

My illustration final. I think I coulda done better... and 'pushed it' a little further but fuck man was I ever exhausted.

Conclusion: antlers are hot on chicks only.

I also did these a while ago and failed to upload.

Film photos.

Fuckin w my boyfiend's camera...

G'night
zzz
N

hi

2011-03-21T00:25:00.000-07:00

So I'm changing the rules a bit.
I sketchbook page a day, or, one art-piece a day.
I can't always do both. I mean, I started this project with the intention of trying to sustain my 'artistic voice' while I do my studies. Nowadays it seems more of a hindrance than a creative exercise, especially when I am going on a handful of hours of sleep and projects are due and people want their tattoos drawn and so on and soforth. I feel like I am pussying out a bit, but at this point I really need the rest.

Here is Feb 4th-march 20th. A lot of these are tiny post-it sized paintings/drawings for a post-it themed show in Barcelona. I shall scan more shit tomorrow.

I need cuddles, food, sleep, sunshine. And am not getting enough of any of these things :( END OF SEMESTER. COMING VERY SOON.

Okay I'll start with the really good stuff.
THIS GUY is made out of sculpey and I must say I'm quite proud of him. Me. For making him. His full glory is best experienced in the IRL but pixels will have to do for now.

I am also taking a photography course. These are some experiments...

Self portrait with halved pomegranates

Commence le post-tits.

Beautiful girl on the bus with a beautiful profile.

What.

As the spirit wanes the form appears.

I hope you like school notes and really crappy drawings because that is what you will be getting for a while. srry.

Nomi out.
xo

is this desire enough enough

2011-02-19T02:58:00.000-08:00

First batch skbook update. Dec 17th thru to feb 4th.

Fell a bit behind due to midterms and getting sick.
I still have sommore skbook pages to show ewe but I'm so tired I had trouble keeping my eyes open while I was scanning.

So what's new. I am on "spring break" which means I've been prescribed an obscene amount of homework since I obvs have nothing better to do otherthan write exhibition reviews about modernist African artifacty photo-graphy mumbo jumbo. I bought a buncha film which I hopefully dont fukkup.

I'm making an honest effort to expand my repertoire re:subject matter, technique and general approach to everything but it's difficult when there's barely enough time to stretch my artistic legs via sketchbooking. I therefore have no time atall to put newly acquired skillz into practice, which is frusterating as fuck but oh well. I could blame school but I know better :)

But I'm getting a bit fatigued with drawing bunnyrabbits skulls and deers, and I'm bored to shit with squid and most cephalopods.

I'm totes obsessed with snails these days idk why.

Got nothing more to say.
NOMI OUT.

YEAH 3 DAYS OF NOTES DON'T YA LOVE IT

MOTHER HIVE BRAIN RESSURRECTION SLEEP OVER PARTY

I actually really like this one.

Seriously hooked on snails.

Monkey god goes to CHinatown.

fluff.

Trip bunny and some strep throat medication. Also feat. Poib who does music and also this stuff.

puppynaut

thank you.

as the spirit wanes the form appears.

2011-02-13T21:51:00.000-08:00

radula I and radula II
graphite.

For a show at this gallery.

suffering buffering

2011-02-12T19:44:00.000-08:00

Insomnia or just outright refusal to sleep? idk.

gurgle

2011-01-28T21:02:00.000-08:00

No skbook this week. Didn't want to stay after school ... AGAIN... to scan 30+ pages when I could be on my way home to nap. It has been a strange as fuck week.

... but here is my first illustration assignment, which I actually kinda like.

well this is awkward.

2011-01-26T01:23:00.000-08:00

Hey goyz.

Sorry about the, you know, neglect and all that.
I was pretty ontopofthings during my xmas break, then proceeded to get very very sick - The Spirit of Hanukkah gifted me with strep throat and I was feverish and unable to think straight for a week. And then school started. So, I am a bit behind on things...

Here are some doo-dads that, I hope, will tie you over somewhat.
I want to make a legit effort to keep my blog quenched with weekly updates, but my classes this semester are kind of difficult for me. I'm taking film and photography courses, so I can't just coast along on "good drawing" skills oh noooeess. It's a good kind of difficult though - I'm in love with photography and can't wait to make ridiculous BLACK AND WHITE art fag films exploring TEXTURES and shit, non-linear narratives, absurdist blah blah blah it's going to be good.

So here's a tattoo I finished.

This one's a work in progress, but it's looking great and I'm quite proud of it :) and proud of the client for sitting thru it so well. Owch.

A tattoo design I've been working on for a while. Going to start soon. Excite! Also, contrary to popular opinion I really enjoy doing colour tatts, meng.

Here's a collab I've started with my TARENTED co-worker Shwa. Definitely got a bit of a Trevor Brown vibe going on. Hope Shwa doesn't fuck it up ... jk. ilu shwa.

Here's a Ouija board I made last semester. I found the wood in the garbage, and painted it the night before it was due. I abandoned it somewhere in my neighborhood once I was done my critique. Here's hoping it went to a loving home.

I'm madly in love with art school, but it's killing me.

Finished my first painting(s) of 2011 recently!
Pics to come sometime eventually vague future like timeframe.
There are a LOT of amazing art events I am involved with this year.
My school is chock full of talent and drive.
And a lot of amazing people want me (?!) to make pictures in their skin...
I am humbled.

Also FUCK, PEOPLE! Follow my twitter thing and maybe one day I'll tweet something other than the current food I'm eating.

I also have a tumblr, full of delicious internets.

Sketchbook update hopefully this week.
xx
N

come child from the deep inferno.

2010-12-16T15:25:00.000-08:00

Nov 16th-Dec 16th.
Some of these are a bit rushed and crappy because I was doing finals... BUT!
Winter break is here. Time to make things. Oh, and sleep? Ha ha ha.

the universe spontaneously creates itself from nothing.

the insides are fruits are always so suggestive. oval open cavities. juicy. hm.

moody pear is moody.

o rlly.

root vegs = win.

NEW SKBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the last pages of my sketchbooks usually look like this.
"top secret download" ooh...

I now have some cameras in my possession.
My studio classes next semester are in the dark (light?!) practice of photography and film.
Itchin to start some new projects.
Feeling restless again.
Yarse
:)
XO
N

the pipe is leaking.

2010-11-22T02:26:00.000-08:00

Holy BALLS. Almost all caught up, just need to double up on pages for the next couple of weeks.
Here is Oct 16th through to Nov 16th and some other ephemera.

Some of my sketchbookpages I had to photograph with my trusty iphone because the scanner at work butchered them so hard.

Like all good things, you much click them and they will get bigger.

Uhn yeah. Squishy things.

Don Hertzfeldt fans will get a kick out of this.

Agnes Varda, lecture notes and my bag drawn with the shittiest pen in the world.

This chick was the fanciest girl on the bus. It was 7:30am, freezing, and she was wearing pink crocs with dalmatian fur trim.

Lecture notes are a common theme I like to explore. Obvs.

Pretty sick drawing of my foot and a fish taking a big shit.

This is one of my favourites. I seriously need to paint sausages more often.

I like tubular things and things with holes in them that squirt stuff. idk. you know? idk.

Preliminary sketches for a painting project which is elsewhere in this post!

Self portrait Marionette for class! My feet are really truly this ugly btw.

Hipster scarf fashioned from real life hipster scarf.

The resemblance is uncanny!

Can ne'er have enough.

Still from a stop-motion animation I am working on.

"The Smallest Things Leave the Strangest Ghosts"
For show at a fancy gallery.
Acrylic on some kind of surface. Shitty iphone photo, so solly.

Sleepyhead...
I painted this a long-ass time ago.

Delicious rooibos zombie. For art show. I did a few more but honestly I'm not that happy with them.

O WORD? Painted tabletop for THE CAMBIE in Vancouver! Yo check this rad shit out in person, if you're geographically capable that is. My super handsome talented boyfriend assisted w this proj. It is a work o love.

Cityscape. Vangroovy. Tall foamy beverage. Rabbits. Mhm.

Jesus christ fuck I'm fucking tired and these internets are lovely dank and deep but I have arthistory to read and miles to go before i sleep and.

xo
N

regular programming will resume shortly.

2010-10-28T20:56:00.001-07:00

behind on a lot of stuff. got midterms. pms hardcore, feel like a legit fatty. Rainy out, perma wet socks, boo hoo hoo. get over yourself nomi chi. okok.
nxt update will make it worth the wait.

zef.

2010-10-15T17:03:00.000-07:00

Some arts, as promised.
Went to see Die Antwoord a few days ago. wow. Belligerent crowd is Belligerent.
Also went to a gypsy accordion thingy show... good times. Dancing. So sore. So good.

Day 10+11

Day 12+13

Day 14+15.

a keeper for sure.

2010-10-15T01:49:00.000-07:00

my boyfriend's kitch.
skbook update tomorrow yuHHhuUHuhuhuhuhu.

some digital detritus that slipped my mind.

2010-10-10T00:21:00.000-07:00

Story of my life: A lovely and talented lady interviews me and it takes me like half a year to respond.

My boyfriend makes crazy movies cause he's talented like that.

Art school is awesome. And stressful. Ahh.
xo
N

two for day 9

2010-10-09T18:01:00.001-07:00

I don't have a life...drawings.
Ugh, I want a burrito so bad right now. You have no idea :(

yesterday and the day before.

2010-10-08T15:26:00.001-07:00

baby bones

2010-10-07T16:35:00.000-07:00

Darling internet :)

I suppose I should explain myself and the intention behind this little project. Well - I work, go to school, and produce a lot of stuff for local art events. So between all of that I often forget to make time for my own art and I find myself cycling through the same junk I was doing years ago. And I mean - Everyone has their own propensity to draw this subject matter or use that medium, and ideally all those little artistic dispositions add up to their own steez. But that's no excuse to be lazy or afraid to try new things, which I have been.

I'm pretty sure I've produced similar bitchings in my other blogs, so at risk of getting into some serious broken record shit, I'm gonna stop there... here are the past 4 days and some English notes.

A friend of mine once told me that all artists have beautiful penmanship. I don't know where they got that idea from. Oh look! cute doggy.

I hope you like school notes because there are going to be a lot of them in my sketchbookwork.

Will have some more scans tomorrow or the day after.
xo

N

fresh and ready.

2010-10-03T21:43:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I take silly pictures with my phone.

Here's a big pile of liquid cheese, and some failed attempts at making pastry smiley faces... brought to you by Tim Horton's employees.

corn flakes.

2010-10-02T16:52:00.001-07:00

1 sketchbook page a day for a year, starting yesterday.
Here are some "oldie but goodies" - things I've been chizelling at for the past few months or so, and just wrapped up in the past few days. And a something from yesterday.

I don't have access to a scanner, so I hope you're cool with weekly updates.

Also, 1 sketchbook page means 1 sketchbook page. 2 page spread = two days.

Wish me luck...
xo
N

click them nice and they get bigger.

got to keep tha devil way down inna hole.

2010-06-11T03:39:00.000-07:00

New blog smell, more like neglected blog smell.
What's the haps? A lot is the haps.

I am currently in Halifax. I've been gone for a month and this is my last week on the road, and I've been tattooing the whole time. Earlier this summer I was guesting at Madame Lazaonga's Tattoo shop (Seattle is strange). In Toronto I was at The Pearl Harbor Gift Shop, and I'm now chillin with the rad folks at Utility!

Art...right.
I am going to art school starting September and I'm so many layers of stoked, and maybe a dollop terrified. To be honest it's going to be refreshing to not do tattoos so often (I'll still be tattooing through my BFA ordeal). I feel like I've made a niche for myself with my tattoo work, and the niche supports me financially but it's also kind of holding me back. It's like, for example, I do a nice squid tattoo and then everyone wants squid tattoos. And I love drawing squid just as much as the next person but seriously, come on, let's try something new k? I'm just completely terrified of the possibility of doing the same shit for x number of years and getting stagnant. I could get up my own ass and misanthropic and go on about the lack of creativity of the general public, quote unquote, but really it's my fault for taking on too many of the same projects and not pushing my own vision etc etc etc.

I get a lot of people asking me why I'm going [to art school], since when push comes to shove I have it pretty good with my tattoo gig. Honestly I don't know the answer. I love art, that's all I can really say.

tumor rabbit likes it when you click his thumbnail... if you know what I mean ;)

Life is good. Surreal times for sure. I've got some neat things on the go, some plans I really aught to stick to, and there's also this rad artist fella keeping me company.

also, check out this wick video by some talented and good lookin fellas.
YUH!
N

Seattle.

2010-04-24T12:24:00.000-07:00

Hey internets.
I will be tattooing in Seattle from May 23rd through to May 30th! I'm pretty stoked to be working alongside the amazing Vyvyn and her merry crew :) If you want me to fill you with needles and ink, please feel free to drop me a line AT nomi(dot)tattoo@gmail.com.

I am looking forward to filling this here blog with pretty pictures and internet ephemera, but my camera done broke'd and I don't own a scanner.

So it'll have to wait.
But take my word for it - some crazy things are happening. Summer is just around the corner and I'm already piss drunk on vitamin D. Mad art vibes everywhere. BRACE YOURSELVES.

it's got that 'fresh blog' smell.

2010-04-06T18:04:00.000-07:00

Hello, internet. Welcome to my new blog - me being Nomi Chi. I'm hoping to use this as more of a soapbox than anything, but chances are I'll lose interest and abandon it like a month or something.