Water Lily - Blue

Today I brought my baby to have a routine checkup. I spent almost the whole day in the hospital and travelling. The good news is that my baby is in excellent health.

I managed to paint this blue water lily in late the night. The color glows even at night.

Size: 16x 23 cm / 6 x 9'', USD$25, SGD$38

Water Lily - Orange

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I was thinking to paint another african voilet but found that I didn't have the passion to do it today. I picked up the lotus flower instead.

It is not easy to create old faded leaves. They are not fresh green. You need to mix using earth colors such as raw umber. But it will give muddy green and loose freshness of the painting if it is not done properly. I painted two today and the other one is a bit muddy. This one was a bit under control and turned out to be ok.

African Violet Series 3 - Pink African Violet

This is the third African Violet, a pink one. I need to create many different types of green in this painting. Greens are not easy, the dark one is almost like black, but the sunny one has warm yellow.

It's fun to create the brick texture. I use salt to do it in some part.

size: 16x 23 cm / 6 x 9'', USD$25, SGD$38

African Violet Series 2 - Blue Violet

I did another blue violet. I put more tonal contrast in this one but with less dreaming effect.

size: 16x 23 cm / 6 x 9'', USD$25, SGD$38

Arts Singapore 2007

Today I went to the Arts Singapore 2007 which exhibits the collections from the galleries around Asia countries such as China, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore.

It is quite interesting and allows me to feel the pulse of what's going on in the art world around Asia. I am very impressed by some of the China's art pieces such as the migration workers. You can see how the hardship, naiveness and sincere are conveyed so vividly by the artist from the faces, postures of the workers and surroundings.
There are some pieces from Indonesia which are full of life such as the mother and child above. I also like Indian art very much. Their art are also full of their own identity that are very unique.

But some of other pieces give me some kind of funny feeling such as the ones below.

African Violet Series 2 - dreaming african voilet

I love to paint African violet. I try to create a series of it. This is a blue one. I used black color to create a grey background for the blue flower. It gives a dreamy result to the picture and also makes the blue flower glowing.

As a general rule, you should not mix color with black to avoid muddy color. But in this painting, I feel that the grey generated from the black helps the blue to shine. Sometime I love to use black when I need to get certain color to glow such as pink or dark red.

Size: 16x 23 cm / 6 x 9'', USD$25, SGD$38

African Violet

How beautiful the humble African violet is when you look closely!

Size: 16x 23 cm / 6 x 9'', SGD$25, USD$38

Pink Turlip and Blue Jar

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I come back to my favorite: painting flowers. To create the bright effect and also make the flower standing out, I use different colors for the vase and also make the cups and bottles a bit fuzzy. I like to paint fuzzy but recognizable objects.

Autumn Fruits

This is a very simple painting. The attraction is the red fruits and the twigs. The ceramic bottles are cute. I exaggerated the brown one.

Size: 16 x 23 cm/6 x 9''

Yellow Flower

This painting is inspired by a photo of yellow flowers. I like the delicate color of the flowers.

Size: 23 x 26 cm / 9 x 10'', $USD$50, SGD$75