Vancouver East-Side Culture Crawl 2008 – Mimi Li & No Naked Girls

Sticky tack. The traveling artist’s new partner in crime; Stick your paper on the wall – voila! a space-saving easel in a busy hallway at the Vancouver East-Side Culture Crawl this weekend.

You followed the signs: No Naked Girls. Besides the obvious, paintings of non-naked girls on the wall, You might have caught me pen in hand, drawing a monster of colour on the wall at 1000 Parker Studios. Children seemed to be the most captive audience that I have encountered. A sweet girl even requested me to cut out a home-made business card just for her! Their parents stop for their children, who watch the monster grow for several minutes, before they head to the other studios upstairs.

Some of my personal favourites were the woodworks studios, including Greg, who teaches the wood-lathe to make wooden bowls and other beautiful items you’d usually see as pottery. It’s incredible to see diseased wood shown off in such beautiful patterns. A pine-cone like wood-piece, and cherry wood – mmmm! One day I’ll be lucky enough to have time to check out the other studios open to public. Maybe next year!

Some nice students from the UBC newspaper interviewed me and featured my photo and my artwork in this week’s article! The Ubyssey mentions artist Mimi Li at the Vancouver East-Culture Crawl 2008.

By the way, I’ve designed a new website just in time for the Vancouver East-Culture Crawl this year. Ink illustrations, paintings and animations in Vancouver at www.mimi-li.com