i don't really have official training on painting...and more i draw, more i found the real skill i'm lacking. yet i'm a really lazy person, instead of class room training, i bought quite a few good waterdrawing books and force myself to really sit down and practice the "watercoloring 101" skill: color and value, wash and wash and wash. 
i'm a person really difficult to really abandon the idea in my mind and strictly follow other's instruction...kaka...this is the very first time i really do it and whew, i really learn a lot! these practices really let me have a new understanding of watercoloring, like a chilling refreshing for my old mind. Oh, i'm fallen in love with watercoloring AGAIN!!
inspired by William Blake's:
To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
another photoshop worked version of my illo friday submit this week...thinking this might be good for website background, wallpaper or poster...what do you think? :D
i drawn this color pencil picture decades ago (feel so old suddenly :P)...i'm a great fans of gymnastics and believe this is the most gracious presentation of strength.
chinese old poem. about missing the love one in the midst of a lonesome nite, believing with love we're connected - regardless how far we're apart...
*about this illo: ink + watercolor + collage background created by photoshop
just pondering some beloved fotos i've collected. doing this collage in fotoshop out of boredom xD
ink outline + photoshop
that's my interpretation of this week's theme. i like my concept :P, just certainly my photoshop skill is still yet to be improved :>
"葉上初陽乾宿雨，水面清圓，一一風荷舉"
when talkingout float, i think of the lotus...i've tried to translate this line of chinese poem,which perfectly paint the beauty of a lotus pond, but failed...i don't wanna my awful translation spoil everything, so i decided to leave it just that...
i like watching plants grow. especially when i'm tired, unhappy, depressed, lost the passion of living, i would water and pamper all my little greens in my house, watching them grow silently can remind me the miracles of life and regain my power :D amongst all, witnessing the growing of water plants in glass container gives me the largest pleasure. once i cut off one leave from the mother plant and put it in a glass pot, within days i noticed how fast it's buds stretched into long roots...everyday returned home i can see it grow longer, grow "curler", it grow so wildly in water and eventually becomes a beautiful line art alive! at that moment, looking at this little leave, i see the world. i see life.
see some of my plants in real here: (oh...they all stemp from the same plant! xD)
this week illo Friday's topic is "wisdom". hmm...it is very difficult to actually define what is "wisdom", yet for me, what Cicero said might be the most appropriately stated: "The Function of Wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil". whilst i believe surviving in today's world, able to see the good from the evils (& vice versa) and then shape one's own mind to well balance both in everyday life is the true wisdom.
This is piece is my first entry created mostly by computer. I'm just learning to use photoshop, thus still have many area need to be improved! so, hope can hear some comment from everyone then i can improve :D
Oops, this drawing is base on my pencil sketch...i actually love my original sketch more so i've scanned and post it here anyway. when i have time i'd finish this drawing...with my own hand (keke, which is what i still found more comfortable to play with...keke ^_^)
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