Gold fish mug and creamer

I threw 4 little tea pots the other day. I found 3 survived from bisque fire, but 2 need some repair for their lids. I have no idea how many will be usable in the end... These are new mug and creamer. I put little gold fish at the bottom. I like it, so I'm gonna go with this gold fish theme for a while... :D

Prud'hon Study

Early Summer, I took a workshop to study Prud'hon. The male nude one is the one I did in the workshop. I learned how to stain the paper and what to use etc. Then I came home and tried by myself. I have some bits of watercolour papers, so I used one of them. And tried tried tried, push and pull, push and pull.... Then finally gave up. The paper I used was waaaaaay too rough for this exercise. I have very little patient to continue... XD

Friday come again...

There is a model, nothing wrong with her, but somehow I can't draw her... She was an afternoon model, so I can only share the works with morning model Dan and da sketch of Bottom Line leader David having his coffee... XD

Adam in a SF soldier costume

Wednesday morning portrait session. Adam is the model for 4 weeks from today. He's one of my favourite models in Ottawa,  who has a young (high teen?) male body feature. I like him posing.  Problem is my drawing, it's very graphic... I think I have to draw softly.

Old sketches...

I found old sketches that I did 2 Summers ago in Italy. Some are not bad, some are... I often talk with classmates in the school about staying in Italy for a couple of months for sketching and painting. I don't know when it come true, but I think I have a lot of time to polish my drawing skills...

Nuit Blanche

Saturday night was Ottawa's first Nuit Blanche. Nuit Blanche Ottawa I dropped by some gallery in By Ward Market area. I couldn't find any visual art works I really like... I forced my hub to make a clay elephant at the planet coffee to make him feel that he's a part of this art festival. It worked and he liked it and we placed his elephant among others not to be lonely... :-)

I joined the group called the Sketch NBO and did some street sketching. http://sketchnbo.tumblr.com/

 Music performance by Duo d'Hull

Street dancing fighters, Capoeira group


I couldn't see all of them, but over all it was fun night. This festival is a new born baby, so look forward to see how it develop next year.

Monochrome painting

I finished the1st painting project at school. Unfortunately, the photo turned out too shiny and difficult to see the details... maybe next time take close up shots and upload...???

And this one is a step by step shot... From the left,
1) sketching
2) transfer to the canvas, and dead colour paint
3) rendering from big form
4) more rendering
5) do further rendering for details
6) Finish of 1st painting
7) finish of 2nd painting
8) touch up and finished...