Cat Links

In yet another procrastinating session, I've gone on a youtube spree. Again.

So it has come to this: eleven o'clock at night, staying up watching cat videos. What a glamorous life, I know.

Anyway.

Cutest hug ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0&feature=aso

Got me laughing like crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDbGqJ2KYk&feature=related
(you have to watch till the end before it's really funny though)

Fat cats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHUKXCsxQwc&feature=related - japanese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHUKXCsxQwc&feature=related - can't wash himself properly

Potty-trained butt kinda klutzy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ug7WEUxH68&feature=related

Low On Art Supplies

I really need to get more charcoal :/ I don't know why, but I really like the willow charcoal (medium) from Coates. Linked here :) I also really want Prismacolour markers. I can't believe I'd forgotten to get em when I went to ze US last summer.

Oh and I've never tried serious graphite before and I really really really really really want to try. I've read other people's art blogs and their granite art is AMAZING. *whimper* I've also never really did a proper sculpture (the white marble kind you see in museums), so I want to try that too, when life actually allows me to. I have SO much homework, it's unbelievable. The education department must be slightly insane.
My to-do list is at least two feet tall.

The Cat and Her Tricks

My cat. Her strangely irresistible eyes and heartrending purr sets off a little wave of shivering affection in me, and should she lie down on the floor belly-up, do a little wiggle, and look up at me, she will have - without fail - charmed me into dropping whatever I was doing to rub her belly.(I swear, cats are THE. best. pity-me, persuasive, i'll-make-you-love-me creatures. ever.). That crafty little fox, once I actually start to enjoy petting her, she puts on a martyred face fit for a saint as if she was the one making the ever-so-enormous sacrifice by patiently enduring my rubbing and petting/treacly outpouring of affection. Once I get up to leave though, she alarmedly cocks her head and stares at me with such indignance that it is impossible not for me to go back to petting her. Seriously. The cat is SUCH the wily, capricious creature.

...or maybe I'm just too soft at heart? :p

Portrait of Einstein

This took me AGES :/ Seven hours working with charcoal and grey acrylic is...not the most pleasant notion. 'Specially when your fingers are all black and sooty at the end. I guess it was all worth it though...what do you think?

Note of Randomosity (grand words FTW!) -  My new fav song is "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. Obsession kicking in... You done done me and you bet I felt it, I tried to be chill but you so cool that I melted...hmmhumm... Anyway. I will stop humming now and let you escape from the clutches of this crazy blogger now :p

A Long Ramble about Math, Technology, and My Cat

I just found out that long division with indices and algebra is really hard. Like, REALLY. HARD. I spent 20 minutes on one friggin question and I'm about to die with about 19 left to go. I guess I'm just not a math person. Everytime I do math, I get really sleepy, and I'm not even faking it. ~groan~ Oh GOSH and I still need to do boring stuff about tangents and sins and cosins. ARGHHH.

AND my macbook still isn't fixed yet. We were gonna get an iPad, but we still haven't got one yet :( Lots of people say iPad is definitely better than Kindle, but is that true?? It's getting harder and harder to pick the best device, what with all the competition and everything. Now even BlackBerry's gonna unveil a PC Tablet to rival the iPad. ARGHHH choices, choices.

I just noticed how obese my cat is.

*A/N: There are some slight proportional inaccuracies in this watercolour, but I couldn't find a way to inconspicuously fix it, so I just left it as it is.

This watercolour is supposed to portray the ambience of a street vendor in the roads of Hong Kong. Although I have seen, passed and eaten lots of these stalls and their food, the inspiration for this particular drawing wasn't my own experience. Rather, it was someone's (probably a tourist; how ironic is that!) photograph of an egg puff hawker. I don't really like doing big paintings with watercolour, because the paper gets fuzzy if you rub colour onto it too much and then you can't add any other colours onto it. Another thing about using watercolour is that you have to wait for the first layer of colour to dry if you want to pile another layer of colour on top effectively. This one was no different; I encountered the usual problems. I'm still glad I did it though :)

GOSHH. I was scrutinizing the picture and I find it reallllyyyy reallyyy hard to resist the urge to tweak everything a bit.

Penguin Watercolour

I did this three years ago. I was trying to cram all my then-newly-learned techniques into this watercolour, hence the dotty blue background and the greenish-brown ground. It's supposed to be two penguins with one of them sitting on their egg. I put this in a box for Mother's Day, coz it symbolizes a family and everything, but then I couldn't finish it before Mother's Day, so whateverrr. lol.

HAPPY MID - AUTUMN!! (to the people who celebrate it)

Revolution of the Forks

I actually don't know why I did this painting; I didn't really want to do it. It stemmed from my art teacher telling me to do sketches of something at different angles and I impulsively yelled, "FORKS!"

So that was that. I randomly decided to make the background a desert, and I just sort of went with the flow from there...

I find art extremely funny. When you look at a piece of art, it seems really hard to draw and you're convinced that you'll never be able to draw something like that (at least to me), but then once you get started, you find out it's really not THAT hard. I was really apprehensive about this piece at first because it was only my second time using oil paints, and also because I don't particularly enjoy sketching stuff (forks are really hard to sketch, by the way - I spent HOURS doing drafts). I planned for it to have a Renaissance feel, but it turned out to be a bit...Salvador Dali maybe??

Rotten Corn Sketch

Sketch of a dehydrated corn. I lurrvee how the skin is all crisp and purple :D

Oh, and my macbook broke :( The top rows of keys on the keyboard don't work and my iTunes is wonky. My iPhoto and iMovie are kinda screwed too :/ Ugh. I MISS MY MAC :( I'm using a lenovo right now and it's SO different from using a mac...

Mounted Cow Head

This got displayed in some exhibition about cows. It's actually acrylic on flax cloth cut into a cow head shape and stuffed with cotton, then mounted on a wooden plank. The design was basically inspired by Aboriginal patterns and old tribal stuff like that, which I really like for some reason...Yahh. I'm obsessed with Africa and countries like that :D You know, prairies and savannahs and safaris and tigers and lions and elephants and huts and tribesmen and cannibals and I could go on and on and on :)

ANNNYWAYY. It's mid-autumn festival today!! Tomorrow I have a day off from school, which is So. Awesome.!! Except I still have to study, what with lots of tests coming up and stuff. :(

Me being a mooncake lover, I couldn't resist eating lots of them (too many I should say) - not my fault they're so good!. I'm so bloated I can feel puke any second, so I better get away from the keyboard before my vomit sprays over my computer :)

A Squinty Eye Sketch

Now when I look at it, I keep finding things to tweak, like how the eye is a BIT too squinty and the white spots inside the eye are slightly too bright/white, but ah well.

I quite liked doing this sketch. It was funnn :) The inspiration was a magazine picture. So I guess technically it's not my fault if the person's eye was squinty. (There we go again...excuses, excuses)

Cya!!

Oils: Snow Scene in Canada

My first ever oil painting!! The inspiration was a snow scene in Canada.

I found out that using oil paints are actually extremely hard. The turpentine stinks and it's really hard to do the first coating of paint, but I think the end result was worth it :)

Peas in a Pod

Sketch of peas. This was done in art class extremely grudgingly...

Upside Down

I really like the idea for this watercolor (yes, it's watercolor! I know it looks like poster colour, but trust me, I'm not stooping that low to use such an elementary medium...yet). It's supposed to be a chef and a nobleman at the same time. :)

Rubbish Turned Flamingo

Just found this one from a looonnnnggggggg time ago, as in, when I was around 8 or something?? It was supposed to be a flamingo made out of unwanted rubbish. I remember I was soooo proud when it got displayed at some exhibition and featured on the news...

LOL :)

Sketch of a Pencil and Shavings

A sketch I did last year. If the sketch is any good at all, it's fairly obvious that it's a pencil and some scattered shavings.

:)

SOOO HAPPY!!

I'm SO friggin happy. Recorder exam is overrrr :DD I think I did ok, but I TOTALLY screwed up sight-singing :/ I sang it in the wrong key. ARGH. Not really looking forward to the results...

But still. At least it's over. I decided to "celebrate" and lazed around watching The Ellen Show for three hours :)

Sketch of a Peanut

A sketch of a peanut a loonngg (sort of) time ago :)

Overwhelmed

Life's just sort of overwhelming right now. I have a recorder exam coming up and my scales aren't exactly up to par yet, homework is just swarming in and I'm buried up to my neck in it, I have lots of other things on my mind and I haven't touched any art for a looonnngggg time because of everything else I have to do. WHICH SUCKS. :(

I feel like curling up and going to bed and just leaving all that worrying to someone else. It especially frustrates me when I look at the clock and discover that, say, I only have two hours left before I need to sleep. This sends me into a frenzy of paranoia and worry worry worry, which is what I'm doing right now, and so I have to go now and start doing something useful. ARGHHH. I WISH THERE WERE 25 HOURSE IN A DAYYYYY!!

Recorder exam

I have a recorder exam (EEEKKK!!) on the 21st...It's scales, arpeggios and diminished sevenths for me untiil then :( It really sucks, because I used to do descant recorder and now I've changed to treble, which has different fingering. I NEVER get the fingering right. I have a feeling I'm going to flunk sight-reading AND scales. ~sigh

Better run to start practising nowwww!!

The Beginning of a Blog

I've had a track record of starting blogs and never finding time to write in them, but this time I told myself that I WILL blog here. So here you'll (hopefully) find a blog about me, my art, my writing, and my rather boring life.
Enjoy!