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Painted Mug
June 28, 2008, 2:30 pm
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Here’s a pretty nice painted mug (from ikea) that I did during the holidays:

thinking...
what is that?

 

 Spots

The giant fish turns back and tries to swallow up the pondering man. The brushstrokes and the subsequent effect was not intentional at all. The texture of the seed part and the area around the handle was created due to the half-dried up glass paint that I was using, which eventually gave such a surprisingly nice texture to the smooth and plain mug. It was quite fun painting the mug, and I don’t mind painting more (if I have the time). By the way, this white mug costs only 50 cents from Ikea :D


Pictures from Bangkok
June 20, 2008, 9:26 am
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Here are some photos of the temples I visited during my June trip to Bangkok, Thailand.

These 2 photos show the front and the side view of Wat Arun, Tmple of Breaking Dawn. The steps were super steep. I went up, but took eons to come down.

This photo of Wat Sutat is slanted because I was taking this shot while riding in an express boat on the Chao Phraya River. The currents of the river was rather strong, to the extent that I felt a little nauseous after the ride D:



Cross hatching exercise
June 18, 2008, 1:18 pm
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These are cross-hatching drawings of stationery. The first one is done as a practice in sec 1, I think. The second was done hastily out of boredom during the holidays. I personally prefer the one I did in sec 1, especially the pilot pen right in the center. But I did attempt to explore more in my second piece, trying out texts, cross-hatching other kinds of textures (e.g. highlighter), although I made some errors in the dimensions of the pens. They look slanted from the side.



Generation NY newsletter header
June 5, 2008, 8:57 am
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generation NY

generation NY

It’s very simple. It’s in black and white so that filtering it in with different tones of monochromatic colour will be made easier.



Pop! Art
June 1, 2008, 11:34 am
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I love pop art! It’s cool and very fun to look at. After being so inspired by Pop Art, and especially by the works of Andy Warhol, I decided to do some works of POP! art too:

Coca Cola Classic

Coca Cola Classic

 Out of the three POP! art works here, I love this the MOST! It really looks like an advertisement for Coca cola. I did away with all the gassy bubbles forming at the sides of the glass (in the original picture) and simplified all forms as much as possible to create this effect. 

donald ducks in a row
donald ducks in a row

This work looks super funny, haha! I played with only 3 colours (red, yellow-orange, blue) plus black and white, mix-and-matched here and there to get 3 POP! art looking donald duck stuffed toy. There is minimal or almost no modelling at all, but I included the shadows to make it look slighly more ‘realistic’. I could have improved on my messy brushwork though, which I think will make my painting much flatter and POP! art-ish.

Old dutch cleanser poster
Old dutch cleanser poster

I feel so sad whenever I look at this collage. That’s because the top and bottom of this work is cut off accidentedly by I-dunno-who. That makes my work look quite unbalanced and tilted D: Anyway, I enjoyed creating textures with acrylic paint and cutting them up to fit the together. The hardest part was to carefully cut out the shapes without creating any big obvious gaps and destroying the overall outline of the subject matter.

POP! art rocks!