Grave Sweeping
Gloomy day, just the right weather to join my aunt and sister to visit my uncle’s grave. My aunt reminded us that it has been 1 year, 1 month, and x days since my uncle passed away. She still misses uncle a lot, but less so than the last time we saw her, may time […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, death, faithfulness, family, life, milestone, patience, portraiture, time, work
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Creative Monday
Tried doing brush and ink portraiture of real people instead of animals. It seemed more difficult as minor misplacement of the facial features can easily render the portrait untruthful of the person being drawn. And it took much longer to draw people, more than twice the time I need to draw animal portraits, as I […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, creative-mondays, fellowship, patience, portraiture, self-control, thankful
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R.I.P. Liu Xiaobo
The recent media is flooded with news of 2o10 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo. I have been following the media and caught glimpses of the deceased Liu Xiaobo’s photos, couldn’t help but remember my uncle who also died of liver cancer just a few months ago. My uncle is also around the same age as […]
tagged: brush-and-ink, life, people, politics, portraiture, prayer, RIP
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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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New Daily Routine
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve started a new daily (almost) habit of practicing calligraphy and portraiture drawing using a brush pen. As much as I love doing art, I’m still very skeptical about the idea of becoming a full-time (starving) artist. Since my uncle got really sick earlier this year and later passed […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, career, dreams, habit, life, patience, portraiture, purpose, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful
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Practice…
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, joy, patience, portraiture, self-control, thankful
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Creative Monday
There was time to spare after I finished my chinese calligraphy homework, I attempted for the first time to do animal portraiture with a real calligraphy brush on chinese rice paper. Feel really inadequate with my skill. Think I’m much better off to stick with my faithful brush pen for now.
tagged: animals, art, calligraphy, creative-mondays, patience, portraiture, self-control
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