sugar rain

Day 1 Project

2011-06-01T23:06:00.000-07:00

Primary colors

new book, new look

2011-04-19T13:11:00.000-07:00

i will be taking the challenge of the book my best friend gave me for my birthday.

the first card (DAY 1) says:

Do a painting in acrylics using saturated, bold colors. After it dries, apply a light wash of transparent Burnt Umber.

work in process

2011-04-13T09:59:00.000-07:00

new sketch

2011-02-23T20:11:00.000-08:00

new paintings in process and one finished painting

2011-01-10T11:58:00.000-08:00

the top one is finished...the bottom ones are work in process....

t-shirts

2010-12-10T20:35:00.000-08:00

these are all original htoi designs...catch me at the holiday showing at "attitudes" bar&grill

sunday 2-6pm @ 4100 manchester st. louis

Print T-Shirts

2010-11-25T21:02:00.000-08:00

Selling original Htoi T-Shirts at the Cherokee Print League
just click on: THIS

The only way to see some Htoi-dappled T-Shirt art is to be there on DEC. 4th on Cherokee Street.

be there, or be shirtless.

new work and some in process

2010-11-17T07:36:00.001-08:00

the colors are quite extreme but i feel like i should just keep it like this. just as a preliminary sketch.

photos of my day

2010-11-15T17:57:00.000-08:00

i'm in love with urban decay.

new work

2010-11-08T06:59:00.000-08:00

new work

2010-11-04T11:50:00.000-07:00

sorry, i lost my SD for my camera. so for now...this will have to be a webcam version.

trees please...

2010-10-29T11:39:00.000-07:00

the movement of these trees are so inspiring

trees from mo's botanical garden...

new work

2010-10-22T00:28:00.000-07:00

another poster

2010-10-05T22:17:00.000-07:00

so i've been doing more art for the flyer bizzniss and now i've got a fun way of doing things. instead of making sketches for painting ideas in my sketch book, i now make sketches for painting ideas for flyers and whatever mistakes and flaws i have: i keep and just add fonts and stuff over them on the cpu. so i make sketches and posters all at the same time. haha...walah!

new finished werk

2010-09-30T11:51:00.001-07:00

2010-09-25T01:03:00.000-07:00

just go to my flickr link for the new sketches i just finished.

flickr

one painting i finally finished tonight.

2010-09-22T20:30:00.003-07:00

the last on, the white flowers is finisehd! haha...its called "awaken me"

the others, is still in process.

new paintings

2010-09-12T15:15:00.001-07:00

more yum yums: got too lazy to take individual pictures....so here they are....

fireflys

2010-09-08T20:32:00.000-07:00

glade contest

2010-09-08T20:31:00.000-07:00

please vote for me on glade's website for my design. thanks! just type in: Htoi

to find my design.

right here

victory dance

2010-08-27T20:39:00.001-07:00

and yet another flyer has been produced....

woot to this designed. i was totally inspired by louis comfort tiffany....he should be originally known for his stained glass....i can't believe his titled got smeared with "tiffany & co". if i can shrink-a-link one of his stained glass pieces i would wear it as jewelry.

purple series photos

2010-08-22T17:09:00.000-07:00

and here are some pictures of the new purple paintings i'm working on.

band poster

2010-08-22T17:04:00.000-07:00

some of the stuff i'm working on lately...

so it seems like i have something to say

2010-08-11T11:38:00.000-07:00

i am but an empty shell, as empty as a naked blue sky
ruined and devalued by the measurement and standards of this world
wasting time to gain just a small spotlight upon the magnified cracks of my decaying mind
i know the longer i breathe, the longer i suffer
the longer i speak the longer i'm silenced by the deafing noise of death
my rusted joints keep my neck stiffened onto that view on death.

new city, new start

2010-08-10T13:07:00.001-07:00

i've decided to stop the second job search for a while, so i can at least get another series going. this series has been inspired by the color purple, so working with the depth and the lightness of it. its still all about plants for me for some reason. lately, i've been having a global fixation. yeah, i'm in love with spheres. here goes something.

nu poetry

2009-12-01T02:54:00.000-08:00

10-17-09

this isn't a time to schedule my sitting and my standing
not an appointed time to know if i can yet speak
this isn't training to me to walk the right way
timing is impossible when there are no hands of time to see
yet, there you are, asking me to please you with the impossible
to feel around in the dark, this dark forsaken world
for a path not yet drawn.

pleasing you when i hear no words from your mouth
not knowing how close destruction lies in one more step
this feeling of insanity in to myself
faith is much harder than work
because work has been what i have known
faith: as though its the simplest thing to ask of a being
when faith requires no sight, no evidence to an unseen

yes, its something to prosper me, but i feel like i've been harmed
because control was what i tried to obtain ever since the opening of my mother's womb
and control is lost when its surrendered to faith in you

*unemployment gives hope to my dreams. watch out for the peeling paint of the american dream on a vehicle of pure capitolism. *

new work

2008-10-02T13:27:00.001-07:00

and some details of this work...

i want to portray motion and passion in this piece. aside from the "atmosphere series" i will be starting this winter....this piece will be the starting set for another series that will be solely based upon improvising. well...then again, when isn't my work improvised?

2008-08-25T12:59:00.000-07:00

one of my favorite indie bands:

john mark mcmillan....check him out

Good music

Redding Trip

2008-08-08T15:37:00.000-07:00

Will be camping this weekend so I'll post up some pictures of nature when I return on Sunday.

have a splendid weekend.

candid art

2008-08-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

hello guys!
i have been having trouble with my scanner, but i think i shall just take pictures of my art work and post them online, you guys don't mind when i take pictures of my process right? okay, well. i'll say when they aren't finished.

here is what i've been working on, just a flyer for my church:

*Thank You Jones for letting me use their scanner!

after i scanned my illustration/painting I did the rest on Photoshop 2.0
*this is the finished product

~And you guys are all invited to the event as well~

2008-06-02T12:40:00.000-07:00

Artist’s Statement

“But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.”
-Numbers 14:21

The undeniable truth is that this world was not made on accident and that it was not formed to be taken for granted. I want to analyze the splendor of the world in full detail. Nature is why I became an artist. I have this desire to portray the details of things we pass by everyday. There is something about a plant you see one day that will never be the same the next. The atmosphere that it’s in will change it and it will bud, blossom, or wither at such a pace that we as busy bodies can’t stay to watch the whole transformation.

So for all the times we do remember, we should be watchful and vigilant to our blessed surroundings (set for a purpose), or we’d miss out on the complex designs of such life. These pieces are a moment in time that’s been imprinted in my cluttered mind; the eloquence of the Designer’s hands.

I paint because of the innate instinct of human nature to share stories. I want to share the story of God and all His creation, minuscule or grand. Success to me is to place my audience in a state of awe that I feel when life’s ordinary walks cross paths with nature’s extra-ordinaries. And to capture such a particle of life through all our senses makes the process all the more spiritual. I’m just a mere tool with limited artistry compared to the original creator Himself.

Nang Hseng Htoi Lahpai

2008-05-20T23:02:00.001-07:00

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More pictures from the show: Vigilance

2008-05-04T12:15:00.000-07:00

my photographer hasn't gotten back to me with the formal photos, however...here are the pictures my friends and family took.

enjoi

Opening of the Show...

2008-04-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

If you would like to see more....

my closing will be tomorrow

Hope to see you all there!

April Show: Vigilance

2008-04-15T21:53:00.000-07:00

Htoi Lahpai
::Vigilance::

April 21-26th
12pm-6pm
Calstate Eastbay Student Gallery
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard,
Hayward, CA 94542
Room number AE 274

Closing ceremony: April 26th 5pm-7pm
(gallery is on the second floor of the Art and Education building)
*best to park in parking lot H

and now the combo....

2007-12-10T01:58:00.000-08:00

adding my abstract style to my recent representational pieces....

*in process, the dimension are N/A for now

2007-12-10T01:26:00.000-08:00

my past abstract piece with a detail shot...

territory of lilliputians

2007-12-10T00:22:00.000-08:00

dimension: 6"x6"

my statement

2007-12-09T22:20:00.000-08:00

Artist’s Statement

I want to be honest and just give all the credit to God.

The undeniable truth is that this world was not made on accident and that it was not formed to be taken for granted. I want to analyze the splendor of the world in full detail. Nature is why I became an artist. I have this desire to portray the details of things we pass by everyday. There is something about a plant you see one day that will never be the same the next. The atmosphere that it’s in will change it and it will bud, blossom, or wither at such a pace that we as busy bodies can’t stay to watch the whole transformation. I want a part of the memory of the present world to become something tangible. I paint because of the innate instinct of human nature to share stories. I want to share the story of God and all His creation, minuscule or grand. I’ve daydreamed in His creation far too long to be skilled at anything else in this world. Success to me is to place my audience in a state of awe that I feel when life’s ordinary walks cross paths with nature’s extra-ordinaries. And to capture such a particle of life through all our senses makes the process all the more spiritual. I’m just a mere tool with limited artistry compared to the original creator Himself.

rain, rain, can you stay?

2007-12-06T16:12:00.000-08:00

*note: the glare effects are ONLY to display the texture of the piece

dimension: 20"x16"