Day By Day
I have the habit of reading my previous post before composing a new weekly one. Last week’s post about Mid-Autumn felt like it had happened months ago already, and when I realized we’re entering the last quarter of 2026, I started questioning where all that time had slipped away so easily. Didn’t accomplish much at […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, events, exhibitions, friends, life, life-drawing, paper, patience, quote, social, sports, time
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Fresh Start
LNY had quickly come and gone. Temperature returned to double digits last week and the clocks had just sprung forward for an hour overnight. It felt like Spring has returned. Last Monday I started the first class of a workshop focusing on linoleum relieve prints using a Vandercook press. I enrolled in the course to […]
tagged: art, creative-mondays, creativity, joy, life, life-drawing, prayers, sketching, studio, time, weather
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Creative Monday
Spent the evening on this Creative Monday relearning how to do portraiture, but instead of using conté, I tried using brush pens and without initial pencil drafts. Skimmed through the old life-drawing textbook and tried drawing the many facial features on it. I was able to sketch them out much quicker, more precise, and the result looked even more life like! […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, life-drawing, patience, portraiture, prayer, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful
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Visiting Uncle
My family insisted on visiting my uncle at his home this afternoon even though he was reluctant to see people after his liver cancer relapsed. Joined by a couple of our relatives from Mainland, there were a total of 9 people visiting! At my uncle’s home, my young nieces from Toronto were kept busy playing […]
tagged: family, life-drawing, love, patience, portraiture, prayer, sketches, thankful
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