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RTHK - 女人多自在4 - 第一集《幸褔的旁邊》麥曦茵作品

Sesame Street: Monster Went and Ate My Red 2

A pair of shoes and a spoon, obviously

Hong Kong Park (8)

End of the series.  Bye-bye Hong Kong Park.

??? and a shell

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

I had a lovely morning today. Because of my HK Park series, I usually painted, alone, at a corner of the studio, and I can take months to finish one painting. Today, I painted with two other classmates and the task was to finish this "Mid-autumn Festival set" in two hours. So, we painted, we rushed, we laughed and we rushed again. When we were doing our final touches, two little girls stood behind us, quietly, eyeing on the starfruit lantern. Their teacher came and asked if they wanted the starfruit lantern. They remained silent. One of us told them we were done and they could take the lantern. The two lovely girl then happily took away the starfruit lantern for their festive master pieces.


What a good start for the weekend.


P.S. Hope you can recognize these items :)

Hong Kong Park (8)

The path towards the bridge to Citibank Tower, but this faces the opposite direction.

麵包超人個 friend -- 奶油麵包小弟, again

This time with charcoal on colour paper and is a quick sketch.

Hong Kong Park (6)

The bridge in the back of L16. [L16 is the windows in the middle of the left hand side. The Queensway Government Offices is replaced by the blue sky as the composition is already too crowded; while the roof top of the green house is kept in the middle of the trees in the top right hand corner to give it more layers.]

Not bad

I have to say this one is not too bad, because:

1) This is only half as big as I usually draw. Everything becomes easier.
2) I chose the "shaded" side. This is also easier than the light side.
3) I chose the side view. It's easier to capture the outline of the face than a front view.

我未能忘掉你 盧冠廷

漆黑將不再面對

張雨生 - 沒有菸抽的日子

Heritage Museum; oil on canvas

Remark: There's way too much room for improvement.

八九六四 -- 五月的陽光 (慢版)

《你還可愛麼》香港愛我

有人要求喺屋企步行範圍內先做

文中的僱主說應徵者：「有人要求喺屋企步行範圍內先做。」

記得當年在中途宿舍實習要跟進一個個案，服務使用者希望找一份活動助理的工作，自力更生，不需繼續領取綜援。可是，她對工作的地點卻很揀擇，遠一點的，連申請的意慾也沒有。當時我簡直暴跳如雷：「又話自力更生？左揀加揀，世界邊有咁美好？」

見過幾次面之後，我開始明白她的想法：一個活動助理月薪$5,000；外出工作要在外面午膳（中途宿舍包三餐，但沒有人會包起飯菜「帶飯」返工）；多轉幾次車交通費便更昂（當時宿舍的地點有點不方便）；中途宿舍也要交租…，其實薪金已所剩無幾，難免要斤斤計較。

在最後一次的 supervision，我把自己的想法告訴 supervisor（宿舍的主任）。記得她當時微笑者對我說：「你終於也學懂與服務使用者同步，只有這樣才可以做一個好社工。」

小老闆咆哮：請李卓人收口

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謝安琪 - 女人KING 第六集 - 絨裡手套 (ATV 10/4)

05 女人KING - 高跟鞋.mpg

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第四集 - 孭帶 (ATV 27/3)

I have a love-hate relationship with these plaster figures

HK Scenery (1)

Let's walk away from HK Park and oil painting for a while.  This is the Heritage Museum with colour pencils and pastel.

HK Park (5)

Yes, I know the windows at Murray Building are way bigger than real.

Yes, I know I paint the HK Park as if it's a forest.

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第三集 - 朱古力 (ATV 20/3)

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第二集 - 雞毛掃 (ATV 11/3)

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第一集 - 衣車 (ATV 6/3)

Hong Kong Park (4)

The "artificial lake" in HK Park. That's Murray Building in the back.

Before I started, the teacher asked, "Are you going to remove the building and draw a sky instead?"

I said, "No, the building is the focus too."

Teacher said again, "How can the building, the trees in the centre and the person in the front all be the focus?"

I thought, "Only you said ther person is the focus. She's only a 'side-kick' for me".

Westlife - You Raise Me Up

A two-hour sketch, obviously not my expertise

Hong Kong Park (3)

The path from to the bridge to Citibank Tower, where I walk through every morning.

Every week at drawing class, some classmates would come and say "嘩！好靚呀...張相。" (Wow! It's beautiful...I mean the photograph.) [I took lots of pictures of HK Park for this painting project.]

失業綜援碩士生 VS 納稅人

這兩天因為「失業綜援碩士生」的報導，我聽了幾次「我都有份納稅，佢唔係咁洗我D錢嘛？」

自 問只是普通人家，又無樓，不用（直接）交差餉。雖然每年要交兩個月人工的稅，但我相信仍然不足以支付我每天使用的道路的維修和清潔費；街燈和紅綠燈的電 費；每天上班時經過的香港公園的保養費；花了$200買了一個全家全年入場證便經常參觀的康文署博物館的策展及保養費；當我懷疑鄰居發生家暴事件後報警， 前來調查的兩個警員的人工...還未計算偶然仍然會使用的公共醫療，甚至兒時的免費教育、學童保健、交通津貼...

有時，我也會認為自己交的稅款比我的負擔能力高。只是，我亦不認為交了稅的人就一定比沒有資格交的人強。

一個紀錄 (P.S. 陸永好好多)

"Constance" and her pet

... walked from my old phone to the new one.

Happy New Year, Happy New Year!

A new eraser for a brand new year, and bye bye to an old pencil.