Art

  • Portrait Drawing Workshop 2018

    Portrait Drawing Workshop 2018

    I’ve been an artist my entire life, but I have never seriously considered drawing or painting people. I did try several times when I was in school, but I would not call those artworks a serious portrait. Ever since I learned about the Society of Figurative Arts, I have been challenging myself with more serious…

  • Plumeria – Botanical Copic Drawing

    Plumeria – Botanical Copic Drawing

    When I visited Sydney, Australia for the first time, I was mesmerized with plumeria flowers and decided to make a drawing of them. I never saw this tree bloom before, and its leaves looked familiar. Apparently, it’s just a look-a-like, but a completely different tree. It’s interesting how completely different things might look similar in…

  • Pears Copic Drawings

    Pears Copic Drawings

    There was a time, when I never held a Copic in my hands. Thankfully, this was promptly changed by a wonderful gift from my hubby. The pear drawings presented here are my very first experiments with this wonderful medium. I immediately fell in love, and wanted to get more colors. It took me a while…

  • Milestone Frog Lantern figurine

    Milestone Frog Lantern figurine

    This is the milestone one would find in an enchanted forest. It is shaped as a stone frog and the fire inside emits a faint green light. This green glow lets lost travelers know that they are on the right path. This miniature milestone lets the owner know that even in the darkest hour, the…

  • Glass with a Sea Conch Still Life Painting

    Glass with a Sea Conch Still Life Painting

    Here’s one of the first oil painting I attempted. It’s a simple still life of some glass objects and sea conch. I’m surprised it turned out alright as I had no idea what I am doing. However, the mystery of translucent objects has evaded my hand in this painting. I hope to attempt this some…

  • Stone Wall in the Garden, Digital Painting

    Stone Wall in the Garden, Digital Painting

    I did this digital painting of a stone wall in the garden a while back as an assignment for landscape course. It was an interesting experience as I never tried to paint a “cutout” of the world before. It almost feels like this scene should be a part of a game, and I love it.…

  • Autumn Road Sketch – Original Oil Painting

    Autumn Road Sketch – Original Oil Painting

    The road is short when you know it leads right to heaven. This painting of an autumn road is a quick sketch of an idea that I hope to rework in a larger format in the future. I used oil on linen panel to paint this small landscape. It is a mix of memories of…

  • Wave of Calm over Chaos, abstract painting

    Wave of Calm over Chaos, abstract painting

    This abstract painting hides the idea of calmness taking over chaos. The perfect blue consumes the chaos of life, turning it into peaceful emptiness. From the other point of view, the blue wave could be creating chaos. In any case, this is the relationship of calmness and chaos. There is no one without the other;…

  • Mountain Flats – Landscape Oil Study

    Mountain Flats – Landscape Oil Study

    Last year, I took an online gouache painting course with Justin Donaldson. Most of the assignments in this course I did in gouache. However, some of them could have been done in any medium. I heard that gouache behaves very much like oil except that it dries much quicker. Therefore, I decided to give oil…

  • Fruity Road Block, apple & pear painting

    Fruity Road Block, apple & pear painting

    Apple, pear on the floor.. who’s the pretties of them all? I have worked on a number of still life paintings, and especially apple and pear paintings lately, and I started to get bored of plain backgrounds. That’s when I had a thought of mentally transporting some of the still life setups into the outdoor…

  • Detective Chloe Portrait

    Detective Chloe Portrait

    I don’t usually do fanart, but sometimes I like a character on the show, so I draw a portrait of them. This time I was watching TV show called Lucifer, and I ended up drawing a portrait of detective Chloe. I think it’s a great way to practice drawing portraits because I’m able to see…

  • Pumpkin Monster Collection

    Pumpkin Monster Collection

    Fantasy creatures is one of the reasons I love polymer clay. With this medium, it is possible to bring fantasy to life, and not just on a flat surface, but in 3D! This collection is an experiment with pumpkin and gourd shapes, and the idea of adorable monsters. Most of these are small figurines and…