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I've moved!

2010-06-28T14:09:00.002+08:00

Please join me at my new blog:
http://www.shinesanshine.blogspot.com/

Girl with purple hair

2010-04-12T00:10:00.003+08:00

Came across an acrylic painting I started 3 years ago when I was still in HK. Was in my purple phase (which means I start drafting a painting in purple and then use it liberally everywhere), and never completed the painting - just the face, the hair and body was left undone. Maybe I'll work on it again, but in the meantime, I like it enough to make it into my blog banner :)

A box of windmills

2010-04-03T11:01:00.002+08:00

Windmills for sale! :) wear them in your hair or pin it to your shirt! On sale at the MADD market today :) Design by Twisstii, factory elves are Moodytwoshoes, Li-Anne and Fleecircus :)

owl with tobacco pipe and flowers

2010-03-31T00:46:00.000+08:00

Random random 2

2010-03-31T00:43:00.001+08:00

A painting for my friend Li-Anne :) Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48". Progressives below!

Mao mao

2010-03-30T01:42:00.004+08:00

This is Jason Siew's cat, Mickey. Such a beautiful feline!! I couldn't resist copying one of Jason's photos of his cat. Hope you don't mind, Jason! Mickey is painted in acrylic on 30"x30" canvas. Progressives below.

Random random

2010-03-25T00:40:00.002+08:00

Is a fun painting I did for my sister's room. The brief was "colourful splotches of colour please!". It's 36" x 48", acrylic on canvas - fun to do, easy on the brain if you know what I mean... Ready to hang I suppose, except the two of us haven't figured out how to, so it's sitting precariously on the back edge of my little wicker sofa.

Rudy by the seaside

2010-03-10T02:14:00.003+08:00

If I were a pet dog, I would hope that my owner would bring me to the seaside every day. Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 30".

Woof woof!

2010-02-22T22:27:00.003+08:00

Jack the Jack Russell! Woof! 30" x 30", acrylic on canvas.

Bugsy the french bulldog. Growl. 30" x 30", acrylic on canvas.

ahhh, both paintings based on photos I found on the web...

There's colour everywhere....

2010-02-14T01:08:00.002+08:00

A close up of painting I'm working on now. Using more freedom with colours - it's been fun! Hope to post more of the painting soon.

A nice day for a drive

2010-02-14T01:05:00.002+08:00

A 30" x 30" painting for a friend who drives a coupe and has two cute and happy kids. Acrylic on canvas.

Kewpie cutie 2

2010-02-12T18:34:00.001+08:00

Kewpie cutie

2010-02-11T17:06:00.001+08:00

My colleague in a kewpie doll pose in one of her favorite dresses :P Pencil and poster colour.

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Zen-bbit says hello

2010-01-03T23:23:00.003+08:00

Zen-bbit is not very big, but has great thoughts and ideas. He is looking for peace in his travels to different places...

Malcolm mouse and Betty mouse

2010-01-03T23:19:00.004+08:00

Meet Malcolm and Betty, each maybe 10cm tall, crocheted from yarn. They are sitting on a sofa, and thank Fleecircus and Twisstii for welcoming them to their house :)

Lobsters!

2009-12-30T16:50:00.003+08:00

I made some new friends :) Meet Monsieur Homard (orange with the moustache), Noel and the blue lobster, Maurice. All measure under 15 cm from tail to nose, crocheted from cotton yarn.

Tea time

2009-12-13T04:59:00.004+08:00

I've just been introduced to pearl blossom teas (I think its called something like that) - tea leaves and flowers are tightly wrapped into a ball, and when in water, the leaves unfurl to release flowers. I spend more time watching my tea than appreciating the taste...and it does taste nice :)

London, 12-14 October 2009

2009-10-16T00:44:00.008+08:00

When in London for a short business trip, i managed to squeeze in an afternoon at the Tate Britain. The 2009 Turner prize was there, together with an exhibition of the painter, JMW Turner. However, what really got my attention were the long term collection of the Tate. I humbly stood before some of the splendid portraits of John Singer Sargent. I managed to take two pictures with my phone before I was stopped by museum security.

The Pop Life exhibition was at Tate Modern, but silly me couldn't figure out the way there and was too tired and so gave it a miss. All i got of the exhbition was a picture of the poster in the underground!!! I didn't get to see much of London central cos my work was largely at a hotel at the airport. oh well, next time then.

The flowers outside the Tate Britain were beautiful :) Very modest non-showy pretty. I don't see enough flowers in Singapore!!!!

Desire - 3x3x30 at Red Dot

2009-10-05T12:15:00.004+08:00

Here's another set - 3 inches x 3 inches in poster colour. I wrote and painted about some common things that people want in life.

What's life without dreams and imagination and rainbows?

Money makes a lot of things happen, but it's not everything in life. And it becomes really sad when it is.

Love. We search for it and compensate for the lack or loss of it with possessions, addictions, recklessness. Someone who can solve this challenge please contact me.

Child's play - 3x3x30 at Red Dot

2009-10-05T12:07:00.004+08:00

These were done for the OIC 3x3x30 exhibition at the Red Dot Museum on 3 Oct as part of the 3rd anniversary for OIC. Each drawing is 3 inches x 3 inches. One set done by me is called "Child's play" - all in poster colour.

Gulp. Boo. I want comfort. I want love.

Hurhnffff. I want it my way. I want attention.

Hhhnggff. I'm better than you. I want support.

Black dress and heels

2009-09-22T20:37:00.001+08:00

My bubble tea friends :)

2009-09-01T19:47:00.004+08:00

These are my favorite friends to have bubble tea and dessert with :) We met at east coast lagoon for dinner on sunday and then to marine parade central for bubble tea! I made little bubble drawings of them too.

All poster colour on paper coasters from daiso. Top image composited in photoshop.... oooh and I feel like a bubble tea right about now :)

Coffee, tea or me?

2009-08-28T19:30:00.002+08:00

A poster for an internal event. It was really fun working on illustrating the food items and cafe branding :) we sold coffee, tea and snacks at several locations within our office and raised quite a bit for charity :)

I'm starting a low carbon diet!

2009-08-28T19:19:00.005+08:00

Was doing some research on carbon footprints and took some visual notes below.

Hopefully, more and more people will develop a consciousness about what we are doing to this earth and to our own health :)

Dancing in Harajuku

2009-08-20T13:50:00.003+08:00

A 20 second clip from my phone of dancers in Harajuku. These folks are cool!

Some pictures from Tokyo :)

2009-08-19T12:14:00.006+08:00

Me and fleecircus went on an adventure...

...we stayed at a hotel with old world charm with very pretty tiles and many cicadas.

She helped me pick out a salmon pink shoe with green insides. (I'm wearing them today)

And the walking Dorami mascot was the cutest thing ever!!!

The view from my room!

2009-08-14T18:09:00.003+08:00

In tokyo for a few days hooray here's the view from my room!

By night...

...and by the glorious day! :)

Bubble portraits!

2009-08-04T18:45:00.004+08:00

My very cute and sporting colleagues let me draw them :) I painted their picture using poster colours on paper coasters from Daiso (I love Daiso!). I'll be putting more people into these little bubbles and posting them up - look out for them!

Portrait Day, August 2009

2009-08-04T15:02:00.004+08:00

Me working on the first portrait for the day. Poster colour on brown paper ;)

My favorite portrait of the day above :) it was a happy day drawing and hanging out with OIC people! :) Thanks to Flee and Ziff for photos. More pictures of the August OIC Portrait Day here.

Palette knife oil painting class

2009-07-28T13:06:00.006+08:00

Here's my third piece from the palette knife oil painting class I attend. I bought some new colours and had some fun with them as you can see from above. I find it hard to mix rich pinks and especially intense purples, so it was really great to get it out from a tube :) The photo is taken with a camera phone - will replace with a better picture next week. The actual still life set up is below. More about Mr Wee Shoo Leong's oil painting class here.

OIC figure drawing session 25 July

2009-07-27T10:41:00.003+08:00

Some pieces from the OIC figure drawing session on Saturday 25 July. Experimenting with colours and brushes instead of my usual pencil or charcoal drawings. All done with poster colours on B5 craft paper. Really fun - though some pieces didn't work out ha ha :) but I'm glad I tried! :)

Spotlight: "How I paint - Secrets of a Sunday Painter" by Thomas Buechner

2009-07-18T22:56:00.024+08:00

Don't be misled by the words "sunday painter" in the title. Thomas Buechner is no ocassional painter - he's an established portrait, landscape and still life painter, he's in his 70s, he paints everyday, and his book is quite inspiring. I'll leave you to visit his website http://www.tombuechner.com/ to find out more about him, but I'll share with you some paintings of his and tell you what I found the most meaningful from his book.

I just started another blog which will hold most of my thoughts about painting and art. So do drop by at "What I think about when I think about" and let's talk :)

Sketchbook page

2009-07-14T13:34:00.001+08:00

Purple rose and lime spider chrysanthemum

2009-07-13T20:21:00.007+08:00

I had no idea it could be done - but here's my first blog post with my new mobile phone. Well sort of. I took the picture of the two flowers keeping me company at my desk, and sent it to my blog via my phone and then typed in the text from my computer :) I like how the flowers lean into each other. Paint-worthy maybe? :)

Yellow boy

2009-07-07T15:17:00.003+08:00

Painted from a photo reference. A work-in-progress in oil and acrylic.

My rather messy workspace. Some renovations are going on, so all this has been packed up and stacked under many things. Won't be painting for a while at least not large pieces in oil. Boo :(

Another girl on couch

2009-06-12T14:41:00.002+08:00

I've been at it again - "studying" a painting that I like from Kent Williams. This time it's "Girl on couch".

My version - 30" x 30", oil on canvas.

A close up of the face.

And here's the original work from Kent Williams.

Sketchbook pages

2009-05-12T19:09:00.006+08:00

Almost Emilie - Progressives

2009-05-07T10:46:00.010+08:00

Here are the progressives for the painting "Almost Emilie" , based on a Kent Williams painting.

I started with a "recycled" 18x 18 inch canvas that was painted in olive green and left to dry for some days. There's another painting under the green, which I didn't really like, so I painted over it. I sketched in an outline in burnt umber, but as you can see, it got changed later. I tend to change my mind at the beginning quite a bit....

Based on KW's painting, I sketch in the basic shape and some shading and left it to dry for a week.

Stronger outlines in brown umber and Vandyke brown were added in, and I painted in flesh tones. I'm still obsessed with vermillion, and so made much of the undertone colours in that hue. I left it to dry for a week.

Now for the details! I refined the features and added in details to the face and chest. Still using the same colour palette as the version before, but laying more opaque layers, while still hoping to keep some of the brush strokes visible. Wanted to use a palette knife on this, but because of overpainting of the background left the canvas surface very uneven, I wasn't able to manipulate the knife well.

Here's a detail of the face at this stage.

I put in the sofa/armchair colour, and also add some white mixed with a little ultramarine into the background to dull the green.

Here's the final product. The red is more intense, I'm still not sure about the hands, but I'll look at it in a week or two and see if I want to correct it. Or you can tell me what you think :)

Almost Emilie

2009-05-07T10:23:00.013+08:00

Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 inches. This is based on a painting (see below) by Kent Williams named "Emilie" which he completed in 2006. I liked the colour and composition of the painting, and so did one based on it. Below are details of the painting I did.

Almost Emilie - detail.

Below is the original "Emilie" from Kent Williams.

Progressives of my "copy" to follow in the next post.

A picture of Twisstii

2009-05-03T14:52:00.005+08:00

Twisstii kindly sat for Jason and me during Portrait Day while she was manning the OIC stall. Check out her cute cat and dog button badges at the next OIC Portrait Day at Red Dot Museum!

OIC Portrait Day - May

2009-05-03T14:45:00.003+08:00

Unsold pieces from Portrait Day on 2 May, done in pencil and poster colours. (I'm giving the brown paper portraits a short break! ) We had our first outdoor Portrait Day session at the Homeclub by the Singapore River. It was fun, and an interesting experience having so many people watch us as we drew!

Yellow stripes

2009-04-21T13:18:00.001+08:00

Pencil, poster colours and a touch of multiply.

Palette knife oil painting class

2009-04-21T13:14:00.004+08:00

My completed first painting from my palette knife oil painting class. Measures 18x18. This was completed on the third session - each session is approx 3 hours. It's interesting learning how to use a palette knife, and enjoyable accepting the surprises you get while painting! My teacher is Mr Wee Shoo Leong - more information about the class HERE.

Another fan!

2009-04-21T13:10:00.002+08:00

Another paper fan! Acrylic ink and pencil.

Go green!

2009-03-31T11:21:00.006+08:00

A little project I worked on about creating awareness about saving paper/trees, going green. Installation done with green vinyl sticker - shapes were cut out manually and pasted on the wall, across the corridor floor and to the other side. (Thank you for the nice photos, Wisnu!)

I wanted to create the effect of stepping into a green zone, or walking momentarily into a little forest, and within the zone, you could read the little signs to learn more about what our consumption of trees/paper was.

Here's a close up of the trees.

We laboured over the concept for a few days. Luckily, the setup took less than 2 hours, thanks to the help of 3 of my colleagues!

Some other installations were also done to create awareness of paper consumption within the office. Below, we calculated how many sheets of copier paper was used in a year for a group of departments - 6,085,280 sheets!!

Hopefully, the installations help my colleagues think about using paper more thoughtfully. I'm a culprit myself - I consume a lot of paper, and also hoard it! (esp nice sketchbooks and notebooks!)

It seems that on average, an average tree makes only about 8,300 sheets of copier paper. That's only about 16 reams of copier paper. My calculations tell me that I use up one tree in every 18 months!

If you want to find out more about the yield of paper from trees, please go to http://www.conservatree.com/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml

I've got several trees to my name already, and I hate the idea that I'm killing them :( I'm more conscious about how much I consume these days (paper, water, clothes, food, etc). The earth's got my commitment to consuming less, creating less waste and creating more good! :)

Portrait Day - unsold pieces

2009-03-16T17:35:00.004+08:00

Some unsold pieces from Feb and Mar 2009 OIC Portrait Days :) Pencil and poster colours on brown paper.

Bell and flowers

2009-03-11T10:15:00.005+08:00

Having some fun with coloured ballpoint pens from Daiso in my sketchbook. This lovely haiku is from Zen poet, Matsuo Basho :)

Japanese paper fan

2009-02-24T12:15:00.003+08:00

In the mood for experimenting! Acrylic ink on a japanese paper fan. (Thanks for buying me the fan, Li-Anne!)

Blue girl

2009-02-24T12:13:00.003+08:00

Trying out a new paper stock. Very absorbent, but strong. Acrylic ink and wash.

Sketchbook pages

2009-02-15T18:44:00.002+08:00

Maxwell

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Sketchbook pages

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Sketchbook pages

2009-01-19T20:00:00.003+08:00

Wax pencil and charcoal stick. Adapted from a pastel drawing by Siew Hock Meng. His pastel drawings are amazing, especially those of Balinese women.

Adapted from a drawing by Corcoise about a drowned girl. He does amazing work, do take a look!

New sketchbook

2009-01-14T10:47:00.002+08:00

Two pages from my new sketch book. The man was done in acrylic ink and the lady in poster colours. Just trying out the effect on a smoother, thicker paper. Messed up the hatching on the man's jaw, but still like the picture :) Reference drawn from magazine photos.

Crybaby

2009-01-06T09:57:00.004+08:00

Detail of painting I did last night. Full image below - 24"x 30".

Felt moody last night and so transferred my energy to painting. The canvas is "recycled" by stretching, glueing and stapling fabric onto an used/old canvas frame. The branches are part of the fabric pattern from Ikea. Used acrylic, acrylic ink, charcoal. Took about 4 hours. Not 100% sure the painting works, but I did feel better after.

It's a new year! :)

2009-01-02T15:13:00.003+08:00

The first two entries in my sketchbook for 2009. New year's eve at a friend's place in the east, and the first lunch of the year with some of my dear friends at Waraku.

Starlight

2008-12-31T09:52:00.006+08:00

Not my usual style, but it felt good to try something different. Splattering paint was fun.

Acrylic ink and acrylics on canvas board. 16"x24". Acrylic ink is great - easy to use and fast drying - I'm converted! Still will turn to acrylics for texture and dimension though. The board was first laid with some pages from a chinese graphic magazine I bought in HK.

I like the close up of the face more than the entire picture. Composition-wise seems to lack some interest. Serves me right for not planning! I just took the brush and got at it and this is the result after 2.5 hours.

My last painting for 2008 (unless I manage to inadvertently get some painting done in the next 14 hours!)

Happy new year! :)

Transporter

2008-12-30T19:34:00.003+08:00

Having a little fun...Inspired from a movie poster for Transporter 3. Pencil, poster colour, masking fluid.

Brekos, Holland Village, 26 Dec

2008-12-29T17:54:00.004+08:00

More sketches. Pencil and poster colour. The one below was after Photoshop.

Hong Kong sketchbook

2008-12-17T14:46:00.003+08:00

Was in Hong Kong from 8 to 16 December. Here are some of the sketches I had the time to complete. All in pencil and poster colours.

November mural #2

2008-12-02T18:44:00.005+08:00

A hop, skip and jump away is the Children's Club, also operated by Viriya Community Services. They wanted a mural that was in the same style as My Centre @ Moulmein. So this time round, the subject was children. We had a lot more walls to cover and fewer volunteers. We stopped after 5 hours after all the drawings were done on Saturday 29 Nov, and we'll be heading back soon to touch up on the lines. It's officially opening this Saturday!

The view of the Children's Club from the back of My Centre @ Moulmein. The walls were already painted orange.

November mural #1

2008-12-02T18:35:00.006+08:00

You can find this mural at Kent Road, facing the Pek Kio Market. It's for a senior citizen's activity centre called My Centre @ Moulmein, operated by Viriya Community Services. Thanks to the volunteers at My Centre and to Li-Anne for helping out on Saturday, 8 Nov.

A view of the entire wall. It was already painted orange, so we just added the blue. The mural was intended to highlight some of the activities that the centre organises. It looked like rain that day, and so we worked fast. Finished it in about 4 hours.

I don't want Mei Mei anymore!

2008-11-26T11:30:00.009+08:00

It's finally out in the bookstores! "I don't want Mei Mei anymore!" is a book about a little boy who comes to terms with his baby sister blues. (Story by Lynn Lee, illustrations by Phua San San)

I started work on the illustrations for this children's book in June 2008. This one of the books from the “First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative” for 2008, an initiative from the Media Development Authority (MDA) and the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) to nurture talents in the publishing industry. If you have a story or illustrations for a children's books, click here to find out more about the 2009 initiative details.

The book is 32 pages, 22 x 22 cm and is out in bookstores now at S$9. Here's a look at some of the pages inside.

Children's picture books are a genre I never got to explore properly before. For this project I went through quite a few books for reference and research. It opened my eyes to charming, imaginative and beautiful worlds and landscapes inside the covers of books for children. (My favs are still the Dr Suess series!) Illustrating the book was a fun and a great learning experience :) I'll do it again!

Old twinkle toes

2008-11-04T12:19:00.001+08:00

A quick drawing I did for a friend for a flyer for a senior citizen's dance event. Brush and ink.

Falling

2008-10-16T10:39:00.001+08:00

Pencil, ink and photoshop.

Pages from a new sketchbook

2008-10-10T14:48:00.003+08:00

Finally done with my first sketchbook of the year. Just started a new one with smoother and less absorbent paper.

Pages from my sketchbook

2008-09-29T13:51:00.002+08:00

Pencil and poster colours.

Let's pretend

2008-09-25T19:24:00.002+08:00

Pencil and poster colours.

Rose and lime

2008-09-17T21:26:00.003+08:00

A cropped image of a work in progress. Acrylic on canvas.

I love how her mouth turned out. It surprised me!

Another one

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Pencil and poster colour.

Oh, my very messy room!

2008-09-17T19:20:00.003+08:00

What a pity... I'd rather draw the mess, than clean it up!

Two girls

2008-09-05T19:44:00.002+08:00

Pencil and poster colour. Lime dropped in with Photoshop.

Rainbow

2008-08-27T10:19:00.002+08:00

Pencil and poster colours. Vermilion strikes again!

Girl with red hair

2008-08-21T18:36:00.004+08:00

Pencil and poster colours. I love vermillion!

Vermillion

2008-08-14T13:57:00.002+08:00

Trying out a new style. My colour of the month has shifted from blue to vermillion! Vermillion, black poster colour and pencil.

Sketchwalk, 10 August

2008-08-14T13:54:00.001+08:00

A walkabout around Whampoa, Balestier and Novena.

Brown paper drawings

2008-08-05T13:47:00.003+08:00

Here's a collection of brown paper drawings, including some unsold ones from OIC portrait days. Pencil, poster colours, ballpoint pen and white correction pen on brown paper.

Maybe, smitten. The boy in yellow made it to the August Portrait Day poster. Hooray! This was my first test using poster colours for the colour edition of portrait day. I used coloured markers at the last session, but now favour poster colours as they have more dimension - flexibility with opacity, introduction of whites and option to mix colours while wet.

Pink and Superhero.

From August portrait day. I skipped the correction pen and used white poster paint instead. Outlined in black ball point.

From August portrait day. A very beautiful french family. Mother was glowing, dad was handsome and little girl was tres jolie! It was a challenge trying to finish three and also the little girl was moving about a lot. Used pencil instead of ball point.

My favorite from the July portrait day.

Blue period: a girl and a cat

2008-07-24T13:18:00.003+08:00

Sketched from a magazine reference. Pen and blue added in photoshop.

Another picture of Fluffy minus her calico colouring. Calligraphic pen and colour added in photoshop.

Still happily loving this beautiful sky blue, so you'll be seeing more of my blue palette ;)

Fluffy

2008-07-21T13:49:00.006+08:00

Calico coloured Fluffy is the sweetest cat around. Living in Li-Anne's office for the moment, her clients adore Fluffy. Me too! :)Fluffy's heading to New York soon with her owner, so Li-Anne and I are trying to capture as many photos and drawings of her before she goes. This is the first one - more to come! Fluffy sleeping - in pen and poster colour.

Two dudes at HMV

2008-07-10T12:33:00.002+08:00

Pencil sketch of two guys I noticed at HMV last night.
Contrast adjusted when I zapped the sketch.

Aidan

2008-07-02T20:47:00.003+08:00

My colleague's little boy. Traced and adapted from photo. Still learning how to use my first Intuos tablet (very fun!)...hope to do more - and improve on digital portraits.

Sketchwalk, 29 June

2008-07-01T13:56:00.004+08:00

Sketches from Bras Basah to Little India. Thank you, Drew for organising!
Branches and trees from the overhead bridge to Burlington Square....and then there was the blue scooter resting under a tree. Pen with colour added in Photoshop.
Sign-o-rama in Little India.
Candy colours on the corner of Clive and Campbell Lane. Blue sky added in Photoshop.

Poolside manner

2008-06-24T09:33:00.005+08:00

Trying out a new style and colour palette. Acrylic on wood board. 24" x 18".

OIC scavenger sketch - my favorite shoe

2008-06-23T19:16:00.003+08:00

I love high-heeled shoes! My brown leather pumps from SCHU.

It's not a spectacular-looking pair of shoes, but it's comfortable and high enough!

Spring

2008-06-20T16:22:00.003+08:00

Birthday card with words -
"May spring find you no matter where you are".
Paper collage and pen.
Paper courtesy of an issue of Esplanade Diary (oops).

Closed size 18 x 18 cm.

Hello, Pebbles.

2008-06-11T13:52:00.005+08:00

His name is Pebbles - my first wool-felted creature! Completed him over lunchtime with some undyed wool for the body, moss green for little plant growing from his head.

Raw wool can be made into a number of things - a colleague of mine made wool felted bags. I think wool-felting is quite a popular craft in Australia and some european states - they focus more on bags, hats and shawls. The Japanese are having more fun with making little cute animals and creatures. Guess which camp I'm going into.... : )

Anyway, if you are interested in wool-felting, google and youtube the topic. There are some books in the national library that will give you some idea about getting started. If you like making animals and creatures, the books at kinokuniya are a really good resource - whether you read japanese or not.

I got the wool and felting needles from Golden Dragon store in Chinatown. It's a really good place to find craft materials. Happy felting!!!

Jungle scene

2008-06-11T10:54:00.001+08:00

Preliminary drawing for kid's book. Poster colour on brown paper.

Bag lady

2008-06-11T10:48:00.004+08:00

My colleague bought a really fabulous looking fuschia coloured Miu Miu lambskin bag this week. After a prolonged bout of handbag envy, I went out shopping to look for a bag myself. Got a forest green canvas tote - but it cost two zeros less than her bag! Well - though it can't compare, I have also given that modest green canvas tote an immortal moment on the www with a drawing of it. On the Isetan bag that it was packed into.
Ball point, pencil and a pink highlighter!

Acrylic on paper shopping bag.

Two pages from my sketchbook

2008-06-09T12:08:00.002+08:00

Portrait Day May

2008-06-09T12:00:00.006+08:00

Missed the June OIC portrait day :(
Found an unsold drawing from the May Portrait Day, and a "test" drawing. Both are ball point pen on brown paper with colour from markers, white pencil and "white-out/liquid paper".

Little boy

2008-06-06T15:19:00.005+08:00

Two preliminary drawings for a children's story book - just testing out drawing styles. Most likely using the one at the bottom. More fun for me - with more solid colour blocks possible and more flexibility with brush widths :)

Pen and watercolour.

Poster colours on brown paper (the type of paper they have at ikea for wrapping fragile items heh heh... ) Dropped the text in with powerpoint.

Adam in green

2008-05-30T18:40:00.003+08:00

Sort of still a work-in-progess. Acrylic and paper on canvas. Still feels like it needs something, not sure what yet. Started work on this in HK in 2007, and now he's sealed up in a box with the rest of my half-completed paintings.

Imperfection

2008-05-30T18:36:00.003+08:00

This one I call "Imperfection". Acrylic and paper on canvas.

Completed in March 2007 in Hong Kong.

Mark and Mark

2008-05-30T18:24:00.004+08:00

A painting for my wonderful friends, Mark and Mark, in Hong Kong :)

Acrylic and paper on canvas. Completed May 2007.

Two girls in charcoal

2008-05-28T20:10:00.005+08:00

Completed in figure drawing class in Hong Kong. Charcoal on butchers' paper.

Took lessons from Mr Leung from Dragon One in Wan Chai for a few lessons in 2006/2007. He's pretty good with figure drawing, especially drawing women - pastel and charcoal work is effortless and amazing. Oil painting style is traditional but amazing as well.

My favorite cocktail

2008-05-28T20:06:00.001+08:00

Long story...ha ha. Read about it at my other blog

A cup of tea and a red flower

2008-05-28T19:57:00.003+08:00

My living room in Tin Hau in Hong Kong and the two paintings I did in September 2006. The style is little different from the earlier paintings - more free, but still using paper to add interest. In the paintings I wanted to show the dense urban jungle of HK - but not in a gloomy way. Within in, you can still find your moments of peace. All you need is something to whisk you away from it all - a flower or maybe just a cup of tea :) or maybe just a nice living room. I gave the two paintings to a dear friend in Hong Kong when I left in December 2007.

"A cup of tea"
" A red flower"