Publisher : Golden Tree Press, an imprint of Dream Character, Inc.

Spring is here and just as the grass starts to get green and plants poke up from the ground, a new book about colors arrived in the mail for us to review.

A Most Vivid Day! is the story of Tommy, a young bat who has only known the dim world of nighttime until he meets a caterpillar who teaches him about color. After deciding to stay up to see the colors for himself, Tommy meets the sun, teaches animals and clouds how to share, becomes the “most colorful bat in the whole world,” and finally helps the sun paint the world. The story ends with Tommy asleep as the sun sets and the moon arrives to cover the world in dark colors of night.

Written and illustrated by Justin Young, the story’s watercolor illustrations bring the reader along on Tommy’s adventures through the grays and blacks of nighttime and into the bright colors of the day.

measured emotions 2009/10



phase of the moon 2010/11

Eva Eun-Sil Han was born 1972 in Kangwondo, South Korea. She was first introduced to collage in primary school. As a child she loved to play with papers, like “drawing paper, paper dolls, cutting them out, making their outfits.” She studied for two years at the Design Institute of Graphic Art in Seoul, Korea and one year at the L’Atelier d’Art de la Grange des Champs, Belgium.

eva eun-sil han

Red Head 24x24 oil on canvas



Mucksnipe

Steve Kim paints everyday scenes from his life in an attempt to transform visual experience. Using photographs of seemingly mundane events, Kim renders them almost unrecognizable by employing a skewed perspective, leaving large sections of canvas blank and morphing everyday events into something uncanny and unsettling.

Claressinka Anderson - Curator, Marine Contemporary



Mucksnipe 11x8.5 colored pencil on paper



helloloveducks 11x8.5 colored pencil on paperBorn in Seoul, Korea, Steve immigrated to the states at the age of two. He received his undergraduate degree from Art Center College of Design in 2006 and his masters from Claremont Graduate University in 2010. His work has been featured in New American Painting’s pacific and 15th anniversary editions. He has shown in Portland, Berkeley, and throughout Los Angeles. He teaches at Art Center College of Design and lives and works in Los Angeles.

Stive Kim