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...

Friday is my drawing day...

Friday drawing session has started. Good models for both morning and afternoon. I got a nice position all day today. :-)

Wednesday morning Portrait

It's been a while to join this group. I want to practice portrait drawing, so contacted to Laurie, a leader of the group when I was with them a couple of years ago. She told me that they accept drop-in people. Lucky! Seeing familiar faces made me comfortable... :-)

Sandy Hill

Sandy Hill community centre last night. Surprisingly there were only 30 something people showed up, even Dan prepared yummy fresh watermelon and the model Lilly did a wonderful poses.... These are either 20 min or 30 min works with soft colour pencils and charcoal pencils. I retouched a bit after I came back for blue paper ones.

Sculpting skulls

 To understand human anatomy better, decided to sculpt skull. My first try was with FIMO clay with mini head. And tried bigger one this afternoon. Wow, it's fun but tiring!!!

new sculpture project

My first one was not realistic, so I decided to copy somebody's work to practice.