This is the product of exam stress, a distracted mind and itchy fingers, together with rough paper lying around, the photograph in the photoframe in front of me, and the pen i was using to write bio notes.

(you can see the fustrated pen lines–blame it on bio)

that’s me!! with a near-mushroom-crop hair.

here’s the photo of the original photo. the 2 flowers that you see are actually grew out of onion bulbs. they would have grown to my height if my brother didn’t kick them flat back then.

another whimsical sketch of a merlion with 2Bpencil. well i can’t remember how long it took.

the pencil had faded when i scanned it in, so i had to darken it using photoshop.

pencil sketch of an orchid i stole from my neighbours ^^ below is the pen version. each took me bout 2 hours. 

Ant series

ahh, so this is the 故宫！

bit uneven in here eh?

*raises head up*

ahh a rare clear sky!!

this was taken at the museum too. a group of little kiddies happened to pass by. they looked REALLY CUTE so i decided to snap a shot at them. well there’s a lot of motion in the picture, but this boy in the centre just happened to be staring curiously at the camera, so bingo! haha.

our 山水画.

my favourite shot during the Beijing immersion programme last year. it was taken at 牛栏山第一中学, our host school. we were preparing for our little performance and it was around evening. i just love how the rays of the setting sun fall on the flowered curtains. it looks exactly like autumn. ^^

taken at the foot of the 八达岭 Great Wall. i like the mixture of the reds and greens coated with a layer of mist. just mistical and mystical!

another shot at 圆明园! for some reason i just love autumn.

I went to SAM with Xinyan and Leny after national day to see Xu Bei Hong’s works. 

This is the only decent sketch of of Xu Bei Hong’s works, entitled “Flying Eagle, 1939, done in ink.

I went to SAM thinking that a camera, a pen and foolscap would suffice and that I would leave SAM with loads and loads of nice photographs which I can post here. 

well, no photography allowed, so me, who did not bring decent paper for sketching, had to sketch the eagle using a blue pen on foolscap in the increasingly cold museum. I did a few other sketches but well, they are really unsightly.

had a hard time getting this one (i cropped it! so it’s kind of pixelated) . this is one of the artworks found in Beijing at the 708 Art District. i had a lovely time there with huikin and mr gan (though the others were bored out of their minds.) Sadly, photography is restricted. we took this outside the warehouse (yes it’s a warehouse-turned-gallery; the entire district is). more infor at http://www.798space.com/index_en.asp

prints on canvas depicting the 100人民币note, though ironically with organised prints of stars. if i remembered correctly it was a combination of the American flag and the money note. political message? idk.

there was another one beside this one. it was black. prints again, this time depicting the Hiroshima bombing during WWII. you know, the mushroom cloud. and it also had the “stars”. hehe. sadly we weren’t able to get a pic of it.

when i visited the place again a few weeks later, the canvas had been removed!! ):

another rare picture . these posters are a few of the terracottas in the gallery. they sure caught our eye! there are alot alot alot of miniature ones inside! and they’re painted in some sort of artform, like popart, marilyn monroe the icon, and so on. so it was really interesting, like a combination of something eastern and traditional, with the western and modern.

and the cheeky sculptures.

more photos refer to Huikin’s wordpress.

I stole the picture from leny when i got too bored drawing furniture for coursework. Sadly, it’s incomplete once again due to the lack of time (and the fact that i had to do so discreetly under the nose of the teachers), so Leny has white hair!