Collage

Playing around with Photoshop, and experimenting photo editing. Pictures taken during my trip to China last year.

Valza

Thought that I should get rid of the "lazy bugs" and start to do painting this year after seeing how far my friends have gone with their art. Hence did a painting of a good friend's pet shihtzu, Valza. This painting is for her by the way. It's done in soft pastel, and this actually took lesser time than the time I took to paint the grapes. Plus the size of the painting is also much bigger than the grapes.

First post

Hmmm......Finally got this blog's account set up.

For a start, here's a painting of grapes that took forever to paint from the oil painting class I'm currently enrolled.



Believe it or not, this painting took about 2 mths (about 8 - 2.5 to 3.5 hrs classes) of in-class hrs. The first 3 grapes took like 3 hrs. I'm soooooo amazed with myself that I actually have that bloody patience to take that much time to paint that 3 grapes, or even the total time to do the whole painting. And guess what, it's not even a big painting. It measures only around 10" x 8". Despite that much time spent, I don't find it any better than what I could do in a much shorter time. Nevertheless, it is rather significant to know that I could actually have that much patience.