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.

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.