CNY 2022
Mailed out the last batch of the hundred Blessed Sleeping Tiger (躺平福虎) postcard fai-chuns yesterday, now just have a few to deliver in person later. Still have about 10 of the postcard fai-chuns to spare. I was hoping to give them out as gifts when I meet up with friends during the CNY holidays, but […]
tagged: art, calligraphy, chinese-painting, family, friends, holidays, kindness, pandemic, patience, peace, project, social-distancing, solitude, spontaneous, studio, thankful
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100 Blessings (cont’d)
Started sending out the Blessed Sleeping Tiger postcard fai-chuns early this past week. As my friends started receiving the snail mails, thank you messages started pinging my mobile phone one by one. Many of the messages came with a photo of the cards received. They were proofs that my friends liked and cherished my little […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, covid19, family, friends, goodness, pandemic, project, social, social-distancing, thankful
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Studio Renovation VI
Day 6 – All cleaned up! This concludes my week-long studio renovation project. Will rest tomorrow (Day 7). Looking at the before & after shot, I’m very happy with the transformation of the studio. Thankful to be given such a great place to explore art and design, may good works come out from this wonderful […]
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Studio Renovation V
Day 5 – Set up my art supplies, planted a row of plants (mainly succulents brought from home), and started cleaning up. Hope to finish this little renovation project tomorrow. Before renovating my studio, I sat in on a public forum at my Alma Mater in the morning. It was about climate change from HK’s […]
tagged: climate, graffiti, plants, project, questions, renovation, school, studio, succulents, sustainability
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Studio Renovation IV
Day 4 – Finished painting the wall, my biggest piece of artwork ever! Time flies when I’m working in the studio, was a little late arriving at fellowship tonight. Good thing I didn’t miss the programme. We welcomed a few guest speakers to talk about career, something I’ve been thinking a lot lately. I seem […]
tagged: career, fellowship, graffiti, project, questions, renovation, studio
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Studio Renovation III
Day 3 – Attempted my first real graffiti… FAILED. Realized that spray paints are incredibly difficult to control. Now need to do a little remediation tomorrow…
tagged: graffiti, project, renovation, studio
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Studio Renovation II
Continuing my studio renovation… Day 2 – Added some shelving and started painting the wall. Chose red as the background color because I wanted something sharp. Planning to attempt my first real graffiti work on top, already bought a couple of spray paints, but still not sure about the visuals…
tagged: project, renovation, studio
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Studio Renovation
Plan to give my studio a little renovation this week… Day 1 – Started assembling some IKEA furniture delivered this afternoon, it now has the large desk space I’ve always wanted! I plan to keep one side clean and organized while the other side can stay messy with whatever work I happen to be indulging […]
tagged: project, renovation, studio, thankful
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Oil Painting Class
Completed one of my most satisfying piece of work tonight! There are still lots of room for improvement, but the result looks encouraging enough that I want to continue practicing and seek further improvements in this ever more enjoyable hobby of mine.
tagged: creative-mondays, oil-painting, project, school, thankful
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10K Run
Temperature rose above 20 degrees yesterday afternoon and I decided to go out for a run. Haven’t ran for weeks, a bit out of shape, I stopped running after 3k. Thought about giving up and head home, but it was still early, so I found a place to sit, rest, and watch some youngsters play […]
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