Hello! I’m Lauren.

I am a queer, second-generation Filipino American artist based in the Pacific Northwest. I am from San Jose, CA and I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

My focus is sketching and painting food that invokes nostalgia from my past and delicious goodies from small businesses, although I also love sketching people and dabbling in other mediums and craftwork. My style is heavily influenced by the urban sketching movement, which means I work directly from observation rather than from references (commissions may be the exception to this).

Outside the studio, you may find me under a waterfall somewhere :)

And this is TACOCAT.

Or Taco for short. They’re pretty much the reason why I need to make money from my art. I will now hand over the keyboard so they could share a little bit about themselves:

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaifleiooooo;a ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad