Wednesday 27 February 2013
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Monday 11 February 2013
Red Envelopes & Brushes
Here are some more 'red envelopes' for Roberto and Zyzanna. I picked a traditional Chinese motif as a starting point but made changes to it while painting. Especially the round ones in the bottom were difficult, I didn't do a pencil sketch first so had to change the plan quite a lot to fit the image inside the circle. Also, I did those last and started to have hard time concentrating and made a lot of mistakes.
Peony |
Bird & plum tree |
Phoenix & sea |
Phoenix & peony |
Also a bit closer look of my Chinese ink painting brushes - and my feline art buddy Nunu. (I am so embarrassed about the quality of the photos, I wish I had patience to learn to take photos like Paula.)
Sunday 10 February 2013
Happy Snake Year!
I celebrated Chinese New Year by painting some 'red envelopes'. In China red envelopes are New Year's gifts, people put some money in and give them to children, also bosses can give them to their subordinates. I really enjoyed painting these detailed images with tiny brush and gold paint, in addition to this snake I painted a peony, a plum tree, and two phoenix envelopes.
Sunday 3 February 2013
Wheel
Move Trike |
I started this sketch last November when I was visiting Beijing to finalize my own move but it took an IF challenge to get it finished. I guess this will be the last tricycle sketch for now since they are hard to spot in London... Beijing was full of inspiration on wheels, I documented only a fraction of them, the one I especially wish I had drawn was a pop corn trike, but here are the ones I did draw: Beijing Tricycles on Flickr
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