Archive for November, 2005

Spring in Summer

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Colorful!

Harmonious!

Happiness and peacefulness!

Quietness of a stream flowing from the virgin spring forest.

Scene1 The feeling to have this painting in your living room is like forever flow of happiness. All the small things that make up a home really matters alot.

Spring in Summer (Extract), Opaque Watercolor

Scene2

Spring in Summer (Extract), Opaque Watercolor

Scene3_1 

Spring in Summer (Full), Opaque Watercolor

RM 200, Size: 61cm (H) X 76.5cm (W)

Yellow Puppy

Monday, November 28th, 2005

One of the largest painting I have done so far is this Yellow Pup. Painted based on my adoration for dogs. I can’t exactly identify the breed but this is certainly a terrier - lap dog, cute and portable. Dog lovers out there, you would love to own this piece. Very suitable to cheer up any living space, be it in the bedroom, stairways or living room. And not forgetting your dog’s den. If you hate cats, this can probably scare the furball off. LOL!

Yellow_rabbitlike_puppy This painting is carefully framed with Gold Frame to bring out the color harmony.

Yellow Puppy, Opaque Watercolor

RM 250, Size: 54cm (H) X 73cm (W)

Fierce Sunrise

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

One question to ask yourself if you’ve looked at this painting. Can you tell the difference between a sunrise and a sunset? Needless to say, the title says it all. This is sunrise and I am relieved if you can tell. My 16 year-old student could tell me that it is sunrise, and I was really pleased at her intelligence. (Hehehe! I will sweat if she says otherwise). It proves that this painting has conveyed its message well.

Fierce_sunrise 

Sunrise, Opaque Watercolor on Canvas

RM 150, Size: 66cm (H) X 66cm (W)

Portraits in Watercolor

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

The_age_of_innocence_1 This is my second attempt on painting portrait with watercolor. I have been doing portraits-sketching of many celebrity photos using 2B pencils on my sketchpad prior to this work. However, a portrait of watercolor finish is something really new to me. Do you like this piece? Do tell me!

Portrait of Winona Ryder from the "Age of Innocence", Watercolor

Fruit Bowl

Friday, November 25th, 2005

As the title suggests, this painting is all about kitchen. Most suitable place to hang it is in the kitchen or dining area. If you want to entice your toilet experience, the bathroom is not a bad place at all :)

I had this painting framed up in a Gold Frame. The size of this Fruit Bowl masterpiece is medium large and can be hand carried, in case you would want to bring it home. If you are interested, you can arrange for purchase from me. Just add a comment and leave your contact details.

Fruit_bowl

The Fruit Bowl, Opaque Watercolor

RM 200, Size: 57cm (H) X 39cm (W)

Watercolors

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Here are some collections of my watercolor paintings. Done simply on Drawing blocks. Have yet to paint on professional watercolor papers as they are somewhat pricy. Therefore, for starter, drawing blocks are cool enough.

Venice_watercolor Venice, WatercolorVenice_watercolor2 Venice in Full, Watercolor

Locust This piece is very unique as it requires plenty of patience to draw out the details and plan the sequence for each color application. This is an experiment for me using a different technique. It turned out quite well for a beginner. I am really satisfied with this piece. I copied this painting from a photo of a rare species of locust from a geographic magazine.

Locust, Watercolor

Misty This is by far the simplest of all my watercolor painting, due to the spontaneity of this technique. Sketching is required for preliminary, but done in HB pencil, as minimum as possible. The layers of watercolor applications are also limited to at most 3 times only.

Misty College Building, Watercolor

Misty2

Continuation of the above painting.

Misty College Building (continue), Watercolor

Dome1 This is another painting of Venice, depicting the dome scenery. Done in shadowy style, keeping the colors hue to minimum.

Dome in Italy, Watercolor

Dome_full

Dome in Italy (Full), Watercolor

Hk This is one of the earlier work in my effort to paint in watercolor. So please don’t be too judgemental on this piece. I am not too pleased with the focus point of this painting, that is the ship itself. However, I did discover some new technique with the background. Shen Zhen, Watercolor

Oil On Canvas

Friday, November 25th, 2005

These are some paintings I have been doing in the year 2005. I bought an Easel to enhance my painting experience. Letting the easel to rust in my art studio is a waste. So since I have an easel, with no canvas, I bought canvas, and since I have myself a nice big piece of unprimed canvas, I need to frame it. I bought a frame. A frame need to to have canvas and vice versa, in order for me to start painting. I finally got them fixed together to have a nice piece of framed canvas. Since having a blank canvas, I need to prime it for supportng the Oil Paint. So I bought a bottle of primer and brush to get the canvas primed. Then, lastly, bought a set of high quality Oil Paint, since I want to create a masterpiece, no point buying cheap quality one. Finally, I need to think of something original to paint on it. But I can’t. So I sleep. 

In_love_painting_2 In my sleep, I dreamt about something which I really would like to remember. So, I painted it. This is my composition, ‘In Love’. Not exactly the completed version. I had it displayed in Plaza Sri Hartamas, in a cafe. Unfortunately, I did not manage to capture the completed photo as the painting is not with me now.