I Love Green!

I really enjoyed the process of this one, and also discovered that the family of greens are such pleasant colors to work with. In fact, green and blue-green are now my absolute favorite colors!


Here is the work in progress shots leading up to the finished joy:

Maybe for my next project I will do a fresh bouquet of flowers with blue-green hues and strong pinks.  That reminds me, I need new brushes... the ones I have now are getting frayed at the bristles.  Bye for now!

Of Cafes & Sunshine

They are not as vermillion as Vincent's sunflowers but it was really fun painting them. K did the sunflowers, well some of it and I think they look good.  I'm better with doing the parts with the details somehow.  


By the way, I've totally given up on the paint-by-numbers set I purchased from the bazaar - I don't think you really learn anything by working on it.  And besides, the colors provided just don't blend well together so I doubt the finished work would look appealing too.

The Story of Art

Have been reading The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich, it's the most interesting read and he says that the history of art is not one of improvement in technique but rather the changing of ideas.

Cinque Terre, Unesco World Heritage Site

I just had to try my hand at this gorgeous combination of vibrant colour and buildings and nature.  Think it could have been better especially how the orientation of the houses are captured (it was more front facing in how I depicted it but it was supposed to be more angled) but overall I'm happy with the outcome. 

Again, brushes with poster colour but this time I drew the outlines in yellow intead of pencil.  Even the boats were done in yellow over the darker background before painted over in blue and red. 

Done yesterday.

European Landscapes

A little river-side town, I've put in more flowers than the original scene had as I thought it would make it more interesting. Done in mix of water and poster colours with mainly round brushes of various sizes.

And here are two representations of the same scene of an Austrian landscape.  One done in water/poster colour mix by Kelvin and the second is a quick sketch by myself.

I think he did a really good job with blending of the colours and shading.  My sketch was just a five minute exercise, but given the same amount of time we took to do the two pictures I say I really prefer the one he did.

Cool Days

The weather is cool these days and likely to stay this way till next month, so say the experts.  Here's a tree and ocean scene done in 6B and finished in 2B.

Practise, Practise, Practise!!!

Scenery, twiggy trees, water canals, winding country roads, mossy stairs... I'll take those any day.  Animals, faces with a hundred expressions... no thanks.  Here are the Amsterdam Canals with a couple of bikes: