Have a cuppa

Indulged myself to a cuppa. Watercolor on paper.

Highlights

I've said this a thousand times till my lips are numb and my spit over-pouring.... CONTRAST, CONTRAST, CONTRAST. Without contrast, the image we draw or paint or express wouldn't have the 3-Dimensional, realistic illusion we all want out of our still-life painting or drawing or anything... actually. Many forget about contrast. Wherever there's dark.... there ought to be light...  vise versa. So I made a point to educate my students about the importance of highlights..... chalk on black paper.... this is my demo....

Just with highlights on black paper, astounding works can be achieved. Its all about the fundamentals.

If you are in Singapore and want to know more about contrast and how you can manipulate them to your advantage in creating an art piece, visit us at www.arthaus.com.sg

Cracked Oil and Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36

A piece I made for a filming set... a sequel to Swirls.

Swirls in translation

Sorry didn't update for quite some time... mind-block... but ultimately no excuses. Well, I had a hard time on this one. Remember I said in my previous blog that I'm gonna try to push further.... using colours out of my comfort zone??... I tried with this one... took me awhile to get it right. I ventured into the GREEN horizon.... and sprinkled it with bright red in e beginning.... but it looked too bloody raw and tasteless... like sashimi... so I pondered and lingered and decided to give a white swirly wash over it... looks ok to me.... at least better than that wash. Peace.

Older works

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to view my older works. Peace & Love.

Crushed. oil on gauze paper

Had the impulse to just paint with less control... blurred boundaries. 

But I realized now that I have a comfort zone that I stubbornly attached to. 

The colour red..... white.....and...... umber.........zzzzzzzzzz

SERIOUSLY??!!

I haven't notice it till now.

Right now I'm still stretching my under-painting manipulations which I enjoy tremendously... but unfortunately I'm developing a pattern on my palette. Which is NOT good. I should be pushing boundaries in every way possible. Ok next work... I will deal with colours that I hardly use. Maybe it'll develop an acquired taste... eeek

D'un Monde A L'autre by Karen Charmoille and Carine Juget

Karen Charmoille is a humorous and gracious French lady who trained under my studio partner Carolyn Law for a few years. She still frequents our studio ARThaus. Never would I figure that she would be an aspiring artist. Totally inspirational, Karen Charmoille is a passionate painter who fell in love with oil painting... and being French, from her experience working in the perfume industry, which is an art by itself, I could tell that it's in her "blood". From her works, I could tell that she is evolving from a classical painter to a more daring knife painting. Progress is always good and I salute her for her courageous en devour.

The title of the show means "Of a world to another" at Volvo showroom Singapore 7th June 2012, I can sense her capturing her experience from living abroad from her motherland and her travel wonders. Karen Charmoille is an inspiration to all amateur painters. Congratulations Karen!

My favorite work from her titled "Red Tiles" 

 Oh and that Carolyn Law (far right) my studio partner.

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