Lily Pang Art
Lily Pang Art and Design, Gardening, Painting
Summer is the time when Lotus are blossom and in their most beautiful moment. I love the minty green leaves with the deep purple and pink flowers.
I made four editions in these reductive lino cut prints. I managed to complete two rounds of color today before it gets too dark to work any more.
One important factor about printmaking is to get the contrast of dark and light color right. The process of making reductive print is normally to print rounds of color on the same image from light to dark. If you cut too much in the beginning, the image will have too much light color. If you didn't cut enough, the image will have too much dark color. It is important to control the cutting while applying the corresponding round of color.
This is a reductive lino-cut print. I made limited 2 edition. I love cutting on the lino mat and apply colors one by one. You are looking forward to to see how the image transformed from simple to rich.
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| First layer of color Yellow |
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| With final black color |
I could have made four editions. But my working table is a bit small, I
am afraid it may not work well on extra editions. I shall try four next
time.
Finally it came to the end of the long north America trip for us. I feel so relieved after a really long 20 hour flight. One thing makes me extreme happy is that the two prints
Lotus Pond and
Poppy were sold while I was in the planes. I really wish I could have time to concentrate on printmaking. It is such a magical art.
I have been visiting America and Canada for almost 20 days. I have studied in US and went back for numerous business trips and vacations. Every time I went there, I learned and discovered so many new things. We met friends and visit attractions. The trip was full of fun.
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| One of my friends' beautiful big house. |
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| Very touching Princeton Commencement (Empty seats waiting for the class 2012) |
I have never attended a full fledged commencement. This was the first time I attended the 3 day Princeton 2012 Commencement. It was very touching and meaningful experience. I believe wherever the young people go, they will always remember and cherish the blessings from their school expressed in these commencement days.
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| My Samsung Galaxy Tablet |
The rest of days we visit Maryland, Seattle and Vancouver. The difference of this trip from the last ones is that we made all travel arrangement in this Samsung Galaxy tablet. We book hotel, rent car and navigate through America airport, streets and places through the tablet. We no longer make phone calls or look at maps.
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| The great offline GPS navigating system |
The driving is so much easier with GPS system in the tablet. We download a free offline GPS system called
Navfree. Google Maps is normally the software for GPS. But it needs constant contact with Internet. Navfree is an offline system. It doesn't require an Internet connection which my tablet doesn't have in USA.
The Internet bookings all worked smoothly except some small hiccups. But they were also gracefully solved by the service providers. I will definitely use Internet to arrange travel next time.
Last but not least, all my shops are open now. I got some new laptop skin materials. I will try to make a new round laptop skin printing test. If everything is fine, the laptop skins will be available within few days.
If you notice that I have not been updating this blog frequently, one of the main reasons is that for the past few weeks, I have been preparing a big trip to America and Canada. I will spend a few weeks there. All of our stores will be closed from now till further announcements are made. If you need to buy anything from us, you will be prepared to wait for couple of weeks for it to be delivered.
Another important announcement is that we stopped selling Laptop skins temporary. We have some issues with supply of skin printing materials. We are not very happy with the quality of recent new batch of printing materials and would like to stop selling decals at the moment. We will resume once we get satisfactory materials for printing
Plants are so magical, especially the herbal plants. I am amazed by the various kinds of fragrant they carry.
In searching of some healthy snack for my 4 year old, I come across the mint plant and some healthy snacks and drinks it can make. I planted some in my garden from cut out that I bought from supermarket that are meat for cooking. I just insert them into port soil and magically they grow.
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| Mint in Balcony |
Now they thrive in my balcony. They need only a lot of water and sunshine.
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| Afternoon Snack |
This is a healthy, delicious and easy to make afternoon snack with oat cracker, low fat high calcium cream cheese and mint. The strong taste of the peppermint I pick from the balcony somehow disappear when mixed with cheese. The mint makes cheese very fresh and not so sticky in your mouth. My daughter loves it.
They are also so pretty to paint with bluish green, golden yellow and dark purple stems . I painted two today.
These are some of the fresh printed laptop skin and iPhone decals. I really like the
Tropical Paradise. It is very pretty when printed out in large.
I have been very busy with my daughter's activities recently. There are so many things a 4 years old needs to do such as outings, piano lessons and practices, ballet lessons and other enrichment classes. She enjoys learning new things and that makes us very happy.
I am planning to do some new paintings about flowers and spring fields. These are the sketches I did using my daughter's crayons. I draw them during my daughter's informal drawing session at home. She was very happy if I draw together with her.
A lovely glass pendant of April tree blossom. A unique Spring gift!
This is a very large print of size 28 x 43"/71 x 110cm that is printed for a customer of
Hibiscus and Bird print.
It is printed on art paper. The surface is laminated so that it will be protected for dirty and touching. You can wipe it using wet towel if there is dirty on the surface.
I try to hang it to my cardboard to take a nice photo.
To hang the print, you can frame it as usual. But I think it is best to mount it with a
Adhesive Gator Board, a type of foam board with adhesive surface so that the print can stick on it for hanging.
I made a few Owl Blue square glass pendants these days. I like the bright blue background. It is very nice if you want to wear it with certain matching clothes such as white, pink or jean.
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