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CHENOA

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About Me


4/08 ~ So I took a break from art last year and now I'm slowly but surely getting off my butt to paint...
^Gouache on Illustration Board. 12"x16"
^Gouache on Illustration Board. 9"x12"
^ Digital Oil. Painter IX.
^ (Left) Color Pencil w/ Ink Outline on Bristol. 10"x12". (Right) Watercolor & Gouache on Illustration Board. 9"x12".
^ Digital Oil. Painter IX.
^ Digital Oil. Painter IX.
^ Digital Oil. Painter IX.
^ Digital Oil. Painter IX.
^ Gouache on Illustration Board. 9"x12".
^ Color Pencil on Bristol. 9"x12"
^ Watercolor & Ink on Illustration Board. 6"x9".
Besides drawing, painting, reading, listening to music, half-assed attempts at yoga, watching movies, driving around randomly, and eating copious amounts of chocolate, I also love photo-editing...which would explain the ridiculous photos in my image gallery (I definitely do not look like that on a regular basis).
*I am not planning to sell any of my original art, though I may decide to sell prints at some point in the future.
*I deeply appreciate those of you who have approached me for Illustration jobs, but I will not accept any job offers without a binding contract. I will be open to working with anyone with serious inquiries once I have a professional website up. I will keep you posted.
*Though I am flattered by the few photographers that have expressed interest in using me as a model, I must politely decline all offers. I would actually prefer to be behind the camera, not in front of it.

My Interests

In the Chandogya Upanishad it is said:
The essence of all beings is the earth.
The essence of the earth is water.
The essence of water is the plant.
The essence of the plant is man.
The essence of man is speech.
The essence of speech is the Rigveda.
The essence of Rigveda is the Samveda.
The essence of Samveda is OM.

Those Who Know Don't Talk
Those Who Talk Don't Know
Close Your Mouth,
Block Off Your Senses,
Blunt Your Sharpness,
Untie Your Knots,
Soften Your Glare,
Settle Your Dust,
This Is The Primal Identity,
Be Like The Tao
~Tao Te Ching

Colors fade,
Temples crumble,
Empires fall,
But wise words endure.
~ Edward Thorndike

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~Buddha

I'd like to meet:

March 1, 2007: A Benefit for the Life Foundation


Music:

What's on repeat in the i-pod lately (In no particular order):
1. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - High Contrast
2. Lost At Sea - The Egg
3. Adios - Zimpala
4. Remembrance - Caia
5. So Long - Sissy
6. Beautiful Things - Andain
7. Jump - Madonna
8. Dream About Me - Moby
9. Where Do I Begin - Shirley Bassey
10. Sunrise Comes Too Soon - Late Night Alumni
11. Seeing Julie - Kaskade
12. Bleu Nuit - Ielo
13. Until The Morning - Thievery Corporation
14. Sweet Little Kitten - Husky Rescue
15. Rebirth - A Forest Mighty Black
16. Following - Chungking
17. No Ordinary Morning - Chicane
18. Not Seventeen - Mandalay
19. Snakes In The Grass - Quantic
20. So Com Voce - Thievery Corporation
21. Angel of My Soul - The Egg
22. Un Simple Histoire - Thievery Corporation
23. Strangers On A Train - Lovage
24. Les Nuits - Nightmares On Wax
25. Mr. Gone - Caia
26. Hayling - FC Kahuna
27. Sleep - Azure Ray
28. In A Manner of Speaking - Nouvelle Vague
29. Close - Kaskade
30. The Last Dance - Parov Stelar
31. Empty Streets - Late Night Alumni
32. And I Love Him (remixed) - LTJ Xperience
33. Chariots Rise - Lizzie West
34. Wink of an Eye - Kaskade
35. Baiser Sale - DobaCaracol
36. Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches
37. Pulling Our Weight - The Radio Dept.
38. Lowlife - Scanners
39. All 4 U - Aceyalone
40. Temptation - Moby
41. Ceremony - New Order
42. I'll Be Dreaming - The Pierces
43. Naturals Not In It - Gang Of Four
44. Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
45. Stay Up Forever - Chungking
46. The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson
47. Soul Clap - Strange Fruit Project
48. All The World - Fauxliage
49. Genevieve's Wheel - Venus Hum
50. Day Too Soon - Sia
51. Love Comes First - Techno Squirrels
52. Habla Mi Corazon - Lemongrass
53. Sea of Love - Cat Power
54. Like A Star - Corinne Bailey Rae ~~~~~~~~~~

Movies:

Amelie
Raise The Red Lantern
Happenstance
2046
Apocalypto
L'Auberge Espagnole
Dirty Pretty Things
Like Water For Chocolate
Juno
Under the Tuscan Sun
Pan's Labyrinth
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Perfume
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Lost In Translation
Chocolat
Secretary
Fur
The Nanny Diaries
Pirates of the Carribean
Go
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Empire Records
Shrek 1&2
Me Myself & Irene
Just Friends
Waiting...
Austin Powers
300
SIN CITY
Hero
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
A Life Less Ordinary
Spanglish
Original Sin
Love Stinks
Two Can Play That Game
Napoleon Dynamite
Donnie Darko
Joy Luck Club
The Last Unicorn
Legend
Madagascar
Shaolin Soccer
Kung Fu Hustle
LOTR trilogy
Harry Potter
Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Desperado
Matrix (the first one)
The Sweetest Thing
The Village
The Ring
The Grudge
The Others
A Tale Of Two Sisters
50 First Dates
Hitch
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
Snatch
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Ninja Scroll
Akira
Steamboy
Castle In The Sky
Nausicaa
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Perfect Blue
Battle Royale
VIDEO GAMES
Final Fantasy (series)
Silent Hill (series)
Resident Evil (series)
Tomb Raider (series)
PC GAMES
MYST (series)

Television:

Is used only for the PS2/PS3 and the viewing of movies.

Books:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Frida by Barbara Mujica
The Dim Sum Of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner
Lamb & A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
The Grrl Genius Guide To Sex (with Other People) by Cathryn Michon
How To...Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson with Neil Strauss
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown
Still Life With June by Darren Greer
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
I Am Not Myself These Days (A Memoir) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Heroes:


^Thank you, Jeremy!!!

^Thank you, Phil!!! (that's me on the right)