Very obviously, I couldn't control the use of space.

Mai Po (6)

Mai Po (5)

Mai Po (4)

今次有如神助

Mai Po (3)

The bridge shouldn't be there.

Mai Po Making-of (1)

A picture taken at the end of each class to witness the progress during the past four weeks.

Mai Po (2)

老師好睇佢唔順眼。

Mai Po (1)

First was the Hong Kong Park series and now is the Mai Po series.  This is a sketch for an oil painting that I have been working on for weeks.  Hope it will be in time for the teacher-students exhibition in Easter 2012.

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.

Heritage Museum; oil on canvas

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

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.