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This IS difficult!!

This idea was thrown to me by Wendy from the quaint little bookshop where I rent all my reads. When I told her that I’ve started to paint, she suggested why not do something beneficial with my work, with purpose.

She was reading this book by a guy in USA who started this ‘Wine to Water’ project, where this organisation provides free filters for households & wells in war-torn country such as Afghanistan, Africa etc. Obviously by doing so, they need people to donate $ in order to churn out & distributes the filters. She suggested that I paint something relating to that & put it for sale, the $ is up to me to decide how much I would like to contribute to this purpose.

So I surfed their website and found some pictures for references. The original picture was of 2 kids

Now, this is an interesting painting because ‘Spike’ is my baby.

He’s an English bulldog that we got from Bangkok, Thailand 4 yrs ago. Hubby was pestering me for painting of his favourite ‘son’.

That’s a tough subject, to paint a dog? at my level? not really confident but heck, why not, the most I could just tear it off if it doesn’t look like a dog.

Took me 5 days to complete, at every stage I was, ahem!.., amazed that I could do it. The colouring was ok but the worse part was the individual hair details that got me all tensed up. I’ve learned a lot of this technique through You Tube cp tutorials, it helps! Needless to say, I was & still very proud that I achieved the likeness of dear Spike.

HOLI – festival of colours

ladybug under macro lense

safe haven

Glass of ‘orange’ water

Now, while looking at Gary Greene Colored Pencil book.

His drawing of this horse captured my eyes..

Let’s try painting it, Horse with shiny coat.

Took me 3 days to complete, it was satisfying!

So excited to have found this artist grade cp, they don’t come in cheap.

It cost me RM260.00 for 72 colours. Penang is not big city, in the whole Penang, only this old (really old) art supply shop have it. This shop ‘Nanyang Art supplies’ has been here for more than a decade. Typical of Penang folks, they don’t bother to do up the shop, it remains as crummy & stuffy, guess, like before, but yet the shop is always packed with people searching for stuff.

Anyway, they have only 1 set left, and it has been in the shelf for God knows how long, the print on the pencils are so faded even using a magnifying glass its difficult to make out name of colour! But hey, beggars can’t be choosers right? So ran off to the bank to get cash (they don’t take credit cards, imagine that!) grab the

These are my initial introduction before color pencil art.

I was browsing around a bookshop one fine weekend and saw this set of Faber-Castel Sketching pencils. My mind starts to roll, hmm.. it’s been a while since I sketch, Why not start now? Next is to look for something to inspire me. Where to begin? How? Went to Art book section and lo & behold, found this ‘Sketching & Drawing’ set.

Initially, so afraid to begin, what to sketch???

Ransacked daughter’s room, full of photography magazine, she was crazy about camera @ that time, not anymore : (

Found this B&W picture and there you are, my 1st sketch.

After all this years, I finally have a blog to write things that no one in my family wants to listen.

I guess it’s like talking to myself, using keypads. Of course, I wouldn’t know nuts about setting up a blog. This was set up by my ‘lovely’ daughter, ‘lovely’ because she is in her mid teen age (all mom out there with teenagers will know what I mean).

I have told her that I would like to start a blog and can she help me set it up? O.k. mom! she said, and that was like almost 2 months ago.

So, today, she finally ask me what happened to my blog page? So I told her I’m waiting for you to set it up. O.K. mom! And VOILLA!!! She did it. THANK YOU!!!! Patience pays off.

I will start posting my paintings tomorrow as it’s