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Erika CHANsaw

www.erikaLchan.com

About Me

Erika received her BFA in Illustration/Entertainment Art from CSUF, working in traditional/digital media. She's a portrait/caricature artist at Disneyland, furniture touchup tech, and an Education Specialist at the LA Zoo. Erika started commissioning animal portraits in 2006. In 2007, she established her line of ©Mad Maki Works sushi t-shirts and is constantly working on new projects, exhibitions and feeding her sci-fi cravings. Erika has special interest in designing creatures/sculpting & VFX for films. An easily distracted workaholic that doesn't like to sleep & enjoys driving & eating!..

My Interests

Toys, droids, eating, animals, 80's, dancin, nature conservation, gourmet foods, insects, books, assembling stuff, powertools, ETs, ocean, costumes, dinos, explorin, Egyptology, fabric softener, condensed milk, island life, flyin on a jetplane, chocolate for breakfast, mochi, jewelry, dejavus, dreams, warm weather, skeletons, prosthetics, myths, owl pellets, live shows, new music, bizarre natural phenomena, supernatural phenomena, museums, Baroque art/architecture, jedi mind tricks and arranging my action figures...

I'd like to meet:

My Grama again...Tim Burton, Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Hugh Jackman, Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Winona Ryder, Gillian Anderson and PEOPLE THAT MAKE CREATURES!!!!View All Friends | View Blog / My Youtubes | Add Comment

..Shop My Mom's Store LITTLE ISLE WORKS

Music:

Oldies, jazz, classic rock, 80's, grunge, electro, sndtrks, indie, lyrics in other languages and dancey stuff! NODOUBT, DM, GOLDFRAPP,MUSE,JUNO REACTOR,DANNY ELFMAN, MUSE, NIN, STP, RAGE, HIM, ROOTS MANUVA, MADONNA, GARBAGE,VELVET REVOLVER, POE, SOUNDGARDEN, DISSOCIATIVES, DROPKICKMURPHYS, RAMMSTEIN, PIXIES, BEATLES, CURE, DAFTPUNK, DOORS, PINKFLOYD, HORRORPOPS, MR.BUNGLE. My talented friends JENNIFER SCHROEDER & MATT B, SNOWLEOPARDS, KINGSLEY, CITIZEN RISING, KIDFINISH, & CHAMBER OF ECHOES!

Movies:

Tim Burton/Jim Henson/Del Toro/Disney films.Star Wars, LOTR, Alien, DonnieDarko, WeddingSinger, Romy & Michele, 16Candles, Xmen, ET, Neverending Story, The Crow, Ferngully, 5th Element, Innerspace, Back to the Future, Legend, GhostBusters, Stigmata, Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite, Ghost, Stomp Out Loud, Point of No Return, Phantom of the Opera, Year of the Dragon, Death Becomes Her, Land B4 Time, GeorgiaRule, Willow, Pirates, Witches of Eastwick, Stoker's Dracula, Girl Interrupted, Goonies, Batman and Batman Begins, Borat

Television:

Flight of the Conchords, X-Files, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Robot Chicken, Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, Dinosaurs, Family Guy, Sex and the City, Smallville, 80s/90s cartoons, Food Net, nature/science/history

Books:

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Anne Rice. Ones with pretty covers and illustrations. Any "Art of..." books. Art/film history. Unsettling biographies like What is the What and Night. Comics like Mike Mignola's Hellboy; Zombies, Robots & Amazons. Stories of my youth like Charlotte's Web, Loch, Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher, Where the Red Fern Grows. And of course, Nichiren's Gosho

Heroes:

Dad, Mom, Nichiren Daishonin, Tim Burton, Jim Henson, George Lucas, Peter, Lassen, Caravaggio, Froud, Rick Baker, Steve Wang, Guillermo Del Toro, Stan Winston, Betty WhiteErika lives by the wise words of Daisaku Ikeda, “A wave grows stronger with each obstacle it encounters. Realizing absolute happiness is a state of happiness that can never be destroyed or defeated.”

My Blog

Mad Maki Works Shirts available now!

Introducing, my first three Mad Maki Works silk-screened designs! They made their debut at Project Ethos last week in Hollywood and they are now available online! I have them available in black 100% ...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:15:00 PST

New Zealand-Fiji Diary Jan 15-Feb 6...(updated Feb 7)

En Route to NZ:Day 1-2 (January 14 (Pacific) to January 16 (NZ)):LAX - Fiji 11:00pm: Dad and Mom drove me to LAX and waited in line with me until security screenings where I bid farewells! I slept the...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:23:00 PST

Erika exhibiting at Project Ethos: 2008 Ticket info

Hello Friends! I will be one of the ten artists exhibiting at the sixth annual Project Ethos show on February 29 at the Avalon!!!! It will be a red carpet event...with emerging artists, musicians and...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:10:00 PST

My Videos!!!!!

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Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:54:00 PST

Maui 2007...a wk PAID vacation!!!!

On Tuesday, we checked into the Luana Kai condos in Kihei. It's a cute place with a loft bedroom and living room situated similar to our Diamond Bar place. My brother's friend Mark ended up stayi...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:41:00 PST

Erika Chan's Gallery info

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Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:40:00 PST

Halloween 2006!

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Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:40:00 PST

Heather's Bachelorette!

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ostrichpekpek/album/576460762332 693893  Post your photo links here girlies!...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:30:00 PST

Hawaii June 10-15 photos

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ostrichpekpek/album?.dir=d9fes cd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pho tos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:53:00 PST

Mythical Creature!

You scored as Dragon. Dragon: Now talk about a legend. These magnificent creatures are of many species. Some can be as large as the Earth itself, while others are as small as a mouse. One image that ...
Posted by Erika CHANsaw on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:50:00 PST