Four Months

Four months ago, my wife and I came to Canada. It's taken awhile for us to get our own place, and consequently, my art stuff has sat unused in their boxes from Korea. Well, a week ago we moved in. Last weekend I cleaned and unpacked. Now my materials are available to me.

De Vine

This is the first painting I've done in a long time. I call it 'De Vine' because it's supposed to be an anthropomorphism of a vine.

This is acrylic on thick, large paper. It's about 55cmx85cm.

Ceramic Paintbrush Pool

Baked and Ready to be used.

This was the first item that I made in the ceramics class last month. I think it's probably the best of the ones that survived. The bull lost his horn, the turtle came apart in places, and apparently, the one I wanted to come out the most did not come out at all and fell to pieces.

Well, that's life. Maybe I'll have another chance at the ceramics in September. Apparently, that is the next time the DICC will go.

Black and White

It was interesting to play with different strengths of black pigment in this painting.

This is acrylic on paper. I used my new brush for this one. It's from a company called Hwahong. It's number 10. It was actually kind of interesting how I was able to play with different strengths of pigments by using a lot of water to mix the acrylic and loading the brush, and then adding a heavier mix to the tip. This allowed a sort of two tone effect. In particular, I notice this effect from the eyebrows. I will like to play with that more in the future.

A few misses: the areola and nipple on the left is off from where it ought to be, and the breast ought to continue up a bit to form a better suggestion of shoulder. In any case, I kind of like this one.

To be or not to be

 This is the one that was not to be. It was an attempt at a small Korean pagoda. However, the teacher, Lee Young Suk, did not approve of my efforts. Thus, I crushed it with the heavy weight of my fist.

And, from the terrible destruction that came of my wrath was born this figure of clay. It was to be...