This one...

isn't quite done yet, but I give up.

All drawing classes will break till 2011. Finally have my Saturdays back for other purposes.

Hong Kong Park (2)

This is the oil painting of the previous pencil sketch. I think it looks more like a forest than a park.

Today's World Aids Day

對抗愛滋﹕抗戰廿五年

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/101127/4/lhcx.html

Hong Kong Park

I walk through the Hong Kong Park every morning to work. It gives me the strength and energy to start off the day. As we are going to relocate in about half a year, I start off this project of painting the Hong Kong Park.


This is a sketch for the oil painting next week. The area is opposite to the bridge to Citibank Tower.

Landscape (1)

I have to confess that I only painted the bottom layers, while the highlights were done by the teacher.  I couldn't really do the trees in the front.

My little exhibition at home

They are there cause the paint isn't quite dry yet.

士多啤梨蘋果橙 and friends 系列 (2)

This one is far from done, but I was so bored that the teacher gave me something very different to do this week.

A story distantly related to Liu Xiaobo

Someone I know is working in Beijing and most of her colleagues are local.

In the morning when Liu Xiaobo was put on "trial" on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power", one of her local colleagues was listening to RTHK morning news via the internet.  (The word "trial" has to be put inside a quotation mark cause that's not a fair one, and that office uses HK internet service.  Otherwise, RTHK website is blocked in Mainland China as in Facebook, Youtube, and many others.)  That was the first time that colleague heard about Liu's name (and not to mention the "trial"), so she "Baidu" the name.  (Baidu is a popular search engine in Mainland China.)  Baidu told her that her search result contained illegal content and therefore were not displayed.  Being a local, this certainly rang her bell.  She then switched to HK internet service and "Google" the name again.  She was surprised that so much was written about Liu but she was aware of none.

She then asked her HK colleague if she had ever heard about Liu Xiaobo.  The latter said yes and went on and on about details of Liu.  The Beijing girl was totally amazed.

Today, Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", while he himself and many other Chinese prisoners of conscious are in jail.  At the same time, quite some Mainland Chinese haven't even had a chance to hear about their names.

Next time when a Chinese wins a Nobel Peace Prize, I certainly do hope s/he is fighting for some international peace mission, not something only on Chinese soil.

Release Liu Xiaobo.  Release prisoners of conscious.

Nobel Peace Prize 2010 goes to Liu Xiaobo

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2010 "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". Liu is currently serving his 11-year imprisonment due to "inciting subversion of state power".

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/press.html

Another term gone

This is not as nice as I expected.

A 2-hr sketch to fill the last class of the term. Also a good time to review the column (the mug) and the ball (the orange). Pencil drawing class will break for 3 weeks till end of October.

士多啤梨蘋果橙 and friends 系列 (1)

I suppose this means another stage of my oil painting.

演戲家族《一屋寶貝》主題曲

第二次睇《一屋寶貝》，依然喊足三小時。2nd run 的場地是荃灣大會堂，居然全場爆滿，等開場時有點熱血沸騰。可惡的是今天我睇尾場，sound track 竟然賣哂！

A skull

This is the 2nd one I did. The first one got so much retouching from the teacher that I gave it up and started another one.

Toys of an artist

Mini-plaster casts from 扭蛋機. They are very small. I don't think one can really draw from them though, but still, I want to collect them all!

For all those with brothers and sisters and bunch of cousins

士多啤梨蘋果橙系列 (10)

Bye-bye my pals

Finally done with these red pepper, papaya and egg. The last one under the green light.


***** *****


士多啤梨蘋果橙系列 (9)

Say no to racism

After reading all those frustrating racist posts / comments, I thought of this book I read and this post I wrote.

http://idatse.blogspot.com/2008/05/identity-and-violence.html

A hand

No doubt about it.

士多啤梨蘋果橙系列 (8)

My best friends, again, under the red light this time.  There are still green light, blue light and yellow light!!!!!

Never ending story

The same set of red pepper, papaya and egg but this time without light. The papaya is obviously smaller than real.

P.S. Still a long time till I "officially" done with these fruits and veggies.

士多啤梨蘋果橙系列 (六)

This red pepper, papaya and egg should be with me for a while, changing different colours of light or no light at all each time. But since I changed my class schedule, I may need to change the set later to be in a group with another girl. (Really a little girl. She comes to painting class with her mom.)

New Kids on the Sketch Book

My new project -- children sketches.

Used Chloe as the first experiment. It doesn't look like her of course but not so bad for the first trial.

BTW, raise your hands now if you don't want me to sketch your kids!

麵包超人個 friend -- 奶油麵包小弟

自由花-毋忘六四 ( Flower of Freedom-Never Forget June 4 )

去維園前做好準備

1 款藥水、7 種藥丸，希望極速止咳，為星期五晚做好準備。

拒絕遺忘

「六四」是怎樣一回事?

士多啤梨蘋果橙系列

Another apple and orange. Learning objective -- paint the colours as close to real as possible. However, the teacher didn't tell me the learning objective in advance so I painted some other colours for the background at first and he started yelling at me!!!!!

With some retouching from the teacher. Not much but essential.

This is done in 2 hours. I think this pace fits me better. Can't do any better even if I spend more time.

For the teacher, this isn't done yet but I gave up.

最後果個妹妹簡直無得頂

老媽

老媽書讀得不多，是非黑白倒分得很清。

小時候放學剛好是《十八樓C座》播放的時間，老媽就告訴我們林彬是怎麼死的，為甚麼會有《十八樓C座》。幾十年來，少說也聽了這段事跡幾百次。

老媽自從香港有代議政制開始，每次都會投票。有次爸問為甚麼她支持的候選人落選了，老媽就說：「又不是買六合彩，我是投我喜歡的，不是買會中的。」偶然，她會因為沒有機會投長毛一票而感到可惜。

1991年香港第一次立法局地區選舉，老媽到現在還會說她當天投了「雙華」。雖然，她也是近幾年才知道華叔旁邊那個肥仔（佬）叫李華明。

1995年，老媽因為「新九組」而手擁兩張選票。她感到很高興。

老媽曾經因為貪小便宜的緣故，一度成為工聯會的會員。2003年，老媽因為葉劉一句「30萬工聯會會員都支持23條立法」而憤而退會，並且興奮地參加7.1遊行。

老媽不喜歡曾鈺成和曾德成兩兄弟（近年應該包括曾蔭權，因為每次電視新聞有曾蔭權，她都會第一時間轉台，打擊我的新聞資訊自由）。每次民建聯支持《公安條例》，老媽就會 說：「搵人問下曾鈺成，問下佢佢細老當年係點解坐監嘅。」

今天之前，老媽不斷問我那日投票？有甚麼候選人？為甚麼還沒有收到投票通知書？

今天，老媽準備在出街 wet 之前投下她從不間斷的一票；並且一如既往，只求參與，不問結果。

五一六。最後召集

《一些關於時間的思考》 - Kai Chi Leung

南韓地方選舉宣傳歌

歌曲好不好聽不是重點，我喜歡這幾句歌詞----「有件事不能夠再拖延了，現在就要做。拋棄『我微不足道』這種想法，更好的世界就會來臨了。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0ydwy4cxo

追擊十八仝人愛落區

五月的陽光

I saved the penguins!

Mural painting @ the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital this afternoon. We didn't paint much as it's only a three-hour session. However, I saved these penguins by drawing their black skins and eyes (free hands!). They were ruined by another volunteer yesterday.

8 hours VS 10 minutes

After all the plaster casts, this set of things is actually quite easy.



Not done yet, of course. It's only a 10-minute sketch, but for some unknown reason, I like it.

My first ever coloured oil painting

Interestingly, this is better than the 2nd one I did this week.

Semi-finished

This one isn't quite finished but I don't want to continue any more.

In support of HK brands (not Brand HK)

Finally had a chance to visit the Design Gallery for leisure.  I was determined to get something before I even went close.

Another 10 hours of effort

I have to say this is much better than the mouth at the beginning.

Two steps forward

The 2nd class should be a ball, but the teacher added an apple as well. (This one has some "retouching" from the teacher though. I still don't know how to blend the colours together.)

Doublespeak

新盛世主義的十項國策獻言:

* 一黨領導的民主專政

* 穩定第一的依法治國

* 執政為民的威權政府

* 國家調控的市埸經濟

* 央企主導的公平競爭

* 中國特色的科學發展

* 以我為主的和諧外交

* 單民族主權的多族群共和

* 後西方後普世的主體思想

* 中華文明舉世無雙的民族復興

-- 陳冠中《盛世》

美術之正宗

豐子愷說，習畫要先學素描，畫好素描之後再學油畫，此乃美術之正宗，其他如粉彩或水彩都只是旁門。















Back to square one -- I started oil painting class after CNY. Everything has to start all over again.

Nice weekend

Going to galleries, shopping, reading, watching TV ... well, a little bit of work too ... What a nice way to spend my time.

Will start oil painting classes on Wednesday, a two-solid-day workshop on arts for disabled over the next weekend, long working days expected for the next two weeks at least.

Tough time ahead.

林阿P - 給金鐘地鐵站車廂內的人

Oh...

... I marked the wrong date on the picture.

《麥兜．在濕地上》

Not very successful either

消失

可能近來多讀歷史書，有點覺得我城地標逐一消失，比所謂「借來的城市」時更加無根。未能立足過去與現在，又怎可能有未來？

Another pot of flowers

The real thing looks quite different.

I don't really like doing sketches

20100116 反高鐵‧這麼「和諧」的片段不會在新聞內看得到

這麼「和諧」的片段，應該不會在新聞內看得到，因為傳媒喜愛「衝 突」、「衝擊」。 有時傳媒所報導的「衝突」，我看到的只是記者為了搶新聞的推撞。

Couple of recent drawings

無乜心機















兒童畫室初級班的水平

Something needs to be recorded

興建高鐵 = 促進香港經濟發展？

我還是弄不明白，究竟興建高鐵是如何促進香港經濟發展。我看到的，是興建高鐵讓香港人認命，接受香港優勢不再，於是我們要興建高鐵，讓商賈可以「更快」地返回內地投資、巡視業務；於是我們要興建高鐵，讓專業人士可以一小時內到內地上班，晚上再用短於一小時的時間返回香港睡覺。當這些(稍為)富有的人都不在香港，香港的基層市民又如何就業呢？還是要北上當廉價勞工？

香港的經濟發展模式，總是讓富有的更富有，貧窮的更貧窮。

我想我是成長於「大香港精神」的年代，我總覺得香港每進一步融入內地，便進一步邁向消失。

This is not my nose

Finally grasped some basis of pencil drawing. The nose is absolutely better than the mouth.

《人民之歌》

每次遊行集會唱《人民之歌》，我都覺得無奈──為甚麼我們現在仍要唱「看吧！人民在挽手，爭取正義和自由」？

歷史巨輪

最近在看幾本叫《圖解世界史》的書。

基本上，當教育程度提高了，人民不需再為基本生活擔憂了，甚至有些人小富起來了，這批中層/中產便會希望參與公共事務/社會決策。當他們發現原來權力掌握在一小部份人手上時，衝突便會發生。無論是十八、九世紀歐洲各國的內戰/革命/改革，或者各個殖民地的獨立抗爭/起義/戰爭，都走不出這個規律。

歷史巨輪浩浩蕩蕩，誰也躲不了。

The Obligation of an Engineer

We graduated from engineering schools in Canada wear an iron ring to remind ourselves our obligation and responsibilities to the society as an engineer.

Lately, there's serious discussion on to build or not to build the HK$66.9B Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link. While the decision to approve the funding is at the Legislative Council tomorrow, both sides are trying their best to mobilize their supporters these few days. The latest poll shows that there's 47% support while 45% against.

You may have different reasons to support or not to support the ERL. However, when an engineer said the reason to support the construction is it provides jobs for engineers, I simply can't tell how sad I am.

十月維城

多少年沒有進戲院看港產片呢？

在元旦大遊行之前看《十月維城》(我堅持它叫《十月維城》，現在用的英文名真倒胃口)，別有意思。

在眾多人物當中，我最喜歡阿四。他其實甚麼也不知道，也甚麼都知道。

P.S. 後天看《五四新青年》，之前看了《遍地芳菲》。究竟還有多少人知道辛亥革命、五四運動？