Draw snake add leg

Reused the left-over paint to "doodle" the masking tape on my cupboard. Was originally nice but after I tried to add more details, it just looks too "3D" and focus. 很乱lei..很难focus lei...
 As the old Chinese phrase goes - "画蛇添足"...


 ORIGINAL

AFTER (eww...)

First ever wedding card

Took me two trips to source for the materials. In the end, Spotlight still has more variety of materials to choose and allow creativity.

Wish the feathers dun drop off by the time I can pass to Fas. And hope she can appreciate. Hehe...  completed in an hour. Not bad huh?

Painting With Numbers

Guess I over-estimated myself when I bought the difficulty level 3 dolphin painting. It took me almost a week and I finally completed this freaking ugly thing. ARRGGHHH... I really wonder where my patience has gone to and really admire my old self to be able to sit down and freaking observe non-living things and paint it. 

Ubin beauty

With rushing adrenaline and biting fear of possible tragedies, I decided not to fake sick and travelled to Pulau Ubin with my family members.
We had fun crapping and taking photo. Despite hiccups along the route and several instants of false alarm that triggered my wild imagination that I might fall and have my head run over by lorries,  I survived.
Though the trip is short and kinda boring, I had fun thanks to my siblings...  and so glad I finally took a step to overcome my phobia and got closer to cycling on mud and playing with butterflies.

cbox spam free!

Was figuring how to customize the color scheme of my cbox and delete the spam messages which led me to this blog which James and I did during one of the FOC. http://valengifts.blogspot.sg/

I only did the design of the flowers, whereas he came out with the whole blog thingy. No matter what, still kinda proud that I was involved and got to work with such an awesome designer + programmer.

Talking about design, I helped my aunt came up with this farewell "card" and was rather pleased that I can cut and paste stuff. All along I avoided using tools except pencils. :p

I can't wait for the Christmas party on 24th Dec!!! Already started fidgeting with the decoration materials I bought... OH MAN!! CAN'T wait!!! Also thinking of playing with food design, but gave up the idea after a while since it is rather impractical for a person who can't even cook instant noodles... >.<

Signing off, I shall attach a funny photo of myself... It shall be named, THE WONDER OF PHOTO EDITING! Seriously, I looked more haggard and with enlarged pores, etc etc... AND my pupils were grey... See how it smooth-en my skin and recolor my face such that it looks young again?!

Cheer up!!

While trying to improve my temper, I learnt to not flare up immediately when things do not go my way... Reaped some benefits, such as being in a good mood, you will think of print-screening the funny faces when the video got stuck for just too long...

Hope whoever's reading /come across this blog can have a good laugh. :p

New technique acquired

Stayed up late to accompany my sister who was preparing for her art exam the next day. While browsing her prep. work, saw that she toned a flower such that it looks like it was stamped on the paper, with fading effect at the edges. 

I was so amazed by this technique, which I have no idea what it's called, that I pestered my sister for two days to teach me. In the end, i managed to come out with this using her prep work as inspiration.

We had a good laugh that night when she drew the same thing twice and didn't really get what I was trying to portray (this). Guess we were both too tired. 

Simplicity is elegance, she remarked as I tried to express my views on Japanese flower arrangement and kimono. Only to find that, after QQ replied that the design looks like traditional chinese silk, Japanese kimono designs seem to be influenced by Tang Dynasty. Not sure if I am happy or sad since I like both of them... But just a little sad since I was heading towards the Jap feel~~