Monthly Archives: July 2017
(Starving) Artist, seriously?
It was back in April when I attended my first ever Maker Faire in HK. I took the opportunity to explore the late Zaha Hadid designed building, slowly strolling and ascending the floors before stumbling upon a workshop for DIY bookbinding. One of the instructors gave out postcards she designed, and it just so happened […]
tagged: artist, career, design, event, faithfulness, patience, prayer, self-control, sustainability, thankful
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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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Goodbye First .5 of 2017
Another quarter’s gone and the first half of 2017 passed. What have I done with the time that God had entrusted me with? For the last couple of months, I had finally met up with all the friends I promised to meet and catch-up with during CNY. I planned to meet them earlier, but my […]
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Creative Monday
Finished my Monday evening barista classes last week, back to the luxury of freely indulging in creative things that fills the empty part of my soul on this Creative Monday! Watched a documentary of one of my favourite artists – Vincent Van Gogh. Learnt that he dabbled in many different jobs before settling into a career […]
tagged: art, artist, career, creative-mondays, documentary, joy, movies, patience, peace, thankful
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