Que Bonita Bags by Cristina

Etsy shop now open!!!

quebonitahandbags — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:31:35 +0000

www.quebonitabags.etsy.com

Please visit the new Etsy store. Although I don’t have bags posted for sale, I do have a lot of art posted for sale.
Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Drawings from 2008

quebonitahandbags — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:00:31 +0000

Here are a series of drawings and collages I made during the year 2008. I have been doing these more than sewing and taking pictures. Let’s see what 2009 brings to my plate. Enjoy.

I am adding beads and stitches to some of the drawings, so I guess I am still sewing.

For Andy

quebonitahandbags — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:53:04 +0000

Andy's Art

This is what I made on Sketch Tuesday at 111 Minna in September. I just wanted to do something fun and that I could give it to Andy.
I didn’t make it in any specific way, but this is how he saw it.
water, land, fishes, nature… Funny how we tend to reflect on where we want to be at the moment or what we rather be doing. This is an event we should all be supporting. Email me if you want more information, but I think I was pretty clear with

Collage Postcard

quebonitahandbags — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:11:37 +0000

This is a postcard I made for my friend, who is getting to be a Feng Shui expert. I did not intend it to be directed at her search for love, but it turned out to be the perfect little message for her at the time. This postcard was made from other images, paint and thread. It is part of a series of collages I made for a great group I belong to, but silly me, I sent them out before taking pictures of them.

August 2008

quebonitahandbags — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:17:34 +0000

It has been almost a year since I’ve posted anything, but only because I have been busy creating and a bit lazy about posting.
But here I am again, I will be hanging the drawings I made last summer at Blue Dot, a new cafe and coffee bar in Alameda, CA. Please visit their website and the cafe!
I think the opening for the cafe will be around the 20th of this month.
See you there!

Worth Ryder Gallery – Sept 25, 2007

quebonitahandbags — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:33:26 +0000

Hello Everyone,
Here are my 2 pieces from the Worth Ryder Gallery Show at UC Berkeley. They were part of the Wash Rinse Repeat: Repeat show.
Enjoy…

This piece is based on childhood memories of playing with my grandmother’s thread spools.

Here is a detail of that piece.

This piece is based on childhood drawings.

And a detail of it. These are forms I am attracted to and keep coming back in my drawings.

Ar+Space Gallery Show June 29, 2007

quebonitahandbags — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:16:08 +0000

This is the piece I had at the Wash Rinse Repeat show we had this summer.
The idea came from the array of pincushions I’ve had done for the Open Studios a couple of months before that.
Let me know what you think. I am now working on the pieces that will be showcased this September at UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Gallery.

2 details:

New Drawings

quebonitahandbags — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:39:09 +0000

I have been busy this summer with other things than art work. Boo-Hoo…
I finally made two new drawings. They are on a very nice Arches watercolor paper using charcoal and water-down acrylics. It was a fun experiment and I might keep doing some more of them. I was inspired by a drawing I saw on my way to Tango class last Friday night. Enjoy.

8/4/07

8/5/07

Other drawings I did in July:
These are on the gessoed linen using acrylic paint and black markers.

7/21/07

7/23/07

7/28/07

Thank you

quebonitahandbags — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:43:27 +0000

Thanks to everyone that came to visit Open Studios. It was fun to see you all.
I will be in a group show in San Francisco at the end of June, so hopefully I will see you there again…
Cheers

Drawings

quebonitahandbags — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:30:45 +0000

Acrylic paint, markers, gessoed linen and other materials. Inspired by damask. Enjoy.