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？

It IS Christmas! Have a great time, everyone!

Inclusive Mural Painting Workship - Day 3

Day 3 am

Finally an element not using the hand prints -- the rainbow.





























Day 3 pm

The final product, in just three days.















The final product, from another angle.















Where I signed my name.

Inclusive Mural Painting Workship - Day 2

Day 2 am

We continued using the idea of hand prints to develop a meaningful picture. Technology helped a lot!
















We then used projector to project the image to the wall, and used pastel to make the outline, but I bet you can't really see the line.















All set for the "colouring" in the afternoon.















Day 2 pm

This is what the 15 of us had done in about two hours or so. To be continued tomorrow.















My pastel is of course all gone.

Inclusive Mural Painting Workship

Day 1 am

We used our own way to express our expectation to the workshop and perceived obstacles of creating a community mural. The brick wall, clock and the word "fun" were from me. I used pastel so it's not as sharp as the others.





























Day 1 pm

We came up with the idea of using hand prints to continue our mural cause it's something simple and every one could do while hand prints could do many forms as well.















Someone touched up on my part with acrylic.

Some of the saddest and happiest things in life

(Not is any order)

Happiest

1. Seeing the staff working hard to make the HK Park a lovely place and seeing the little kids enjoying the Park on my way to work every morning. It's my source of energy for the day.

Saddest

1. The B/2B/3B/4B pencils drop on the floor. It's even worse if the lead breaks. It does break my heart every time.

(To be continued...but who knows when?)

An Experiment

This is an experiement trying to put together things learned in both the pencil drawing and pastel classes. I purposely chose some cosmetic bottles of simple shape but different colours so that I could concentrate on the colouring and the 3-D aspect.

I'm lovin' it

A MaDonald's cup and a (Tim Hortons?) donut. My two classmates didn't come last week so I got to do a quick sketch on these in order for them to catch up.

3 classes of struggle

I have to say I can hardly manage these plaster casts, but will have to stuck with it for a while -- from now on, we will start with working out all the facial features, and then hands, legs, etc. Then, we wil combine all them together to draw a real person!

Another sketch

Every week during drawing classes, it's a time to tell me why I am not a civil engineer at the end.