Timeless

This is an oil on canvas painting measuring 61cm by 76cm. I name it "Timeless". Maybe you can think of the three horses as the 'past'(blue), the 'present'(crimson) and the 'future'(yellow).Why it is painted thus is up to you to interpret.

Cats

Sometime this year, I read a news article about an elderly lady who worked very hard to keep stray cats in a rented bungalow. I started to visualize the cats in her garden and thus painted what you see here, "The felines in a garden". The painting may appear illogical but it's only my expression.

When a wave encounters a cliff face

When a wave encounters a cliff face or steeply sloped beach, the resulting impact causes it to bounce back (as light reflects off a mirror) and reverses its direction. The outgoing wave, known as backwash, often slams head on into the incoming breakier, warping bizarre mutations in thewave face and flingingsheets skyward. This oil painting is done on plywood board (48cm by 61cm) and the reference photograph was taken by Steve Hawk. Painting was done sometime in January 2006.

Arowanas again

This is another painting depicting arowanas. Actually it was completed before the other one which was posted previously. I wasn't satisfied with the result, especially the background so I did some touchup yesteday.

Arowana

The picture posted here depicts two arowanas (locally known as the golden dragon fish) in their freshwater habitat. This species usually dwells in midwater or close to the surface of ponds or reservoirs.
The famous fish which is native to South East Asia can grow to a metre long.It is oviparous (mouth-brooding); predatory; solitary or in pairs. This oil painting is done on a 61 cm by 81 cm plywood board.



Arowanas, 2007

Just another painting

The inspiration for the painting shown below comes from a photograph (sorry - I didn't make note of the photographer's name). Anyway I took the liberty to change the local colours slightly to make it look abstract. It was done sometime in 2006 (can't remember which month).

Shall be back as soon as I can.



Canyon, 2006

Finally I can post my paintings here.

Hooray! finally I can post my paintings now. My darling (hehe that's my daughter n not my hubby) just bought me a new digital camera. It set her back by S$399.00. She's going to help me upload the picture later, during her lunchtime.

Anyway, this is a painting I did last year (sometime, in January) when I just started experimenting with oil. It depicts the "Paradise Meadow" near Mount Rainier in America. Standing at 14,411ft Rainier is the tallest volcano in the Cascade Range which stretches from Mt. Garibaldi in Canada to Mt. Lassen in northern California.

As you can see the painting is done in the "realistic" style which my darling commended as 'overly' real. Hehe don't be too disappointed, soon I'll have something different to show you.

Edit: The photo's up!



Paradise Meadow

Lost! The memory card for my cam. :(

Wanted to post some pics of my paintings but found that I've misplaced my camera's memory card. Been reading up on Marc Franz (1880-1916) a German artist who pioneered the Expressionist movement in Munich with some other like-minded artists. The group was named the "Blaue Reiter" (Blue Horseman). I thought I couldn't show you his paintings without my camera but my daughter taught me how to find the paintings online and set-up a Flickr account to save my pics. She just called me a noob. o_O



Yellow Cow (1911), Marc Franz



The Tower of Blue Horses (1913), Marc Franz




Unlike what the man-on-the-street thinks, Expressionism isn't just confined to art - it's present in literature, drama, dance, film and architecture. Not that I know very much about Expressionism outside of art. Art is afterall my first and only love. Wikipedia defines expressionism as "the tendency of artists to distort reality for an emotional effect" but I think it's more than that. It was a process of self-discovery and emanicipation for the artists - they often depicted a utopia free from the alienating processes of industry. (The Industrial Revolution - according to Marx - alienates workers from life because it takes the joy out of the process of creating a product. A carpenter who took pride in his art was reduced to a single worker in an assembly line churning out run-of-the-mill tables). Gotta go now. Tell you more about Franz's Expressionist paintings next time. :)

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