Balance and Fulfillment

Happy Times

Effortless

Joy

Resourceful

Versatility

Independence

Praying together

At its best

Stay safe and sound during this festive season

Living in harmony ...

... means accepting each other, celebrating each other, and supporting each other.

Jubilation

The rock-orchid couplet

A Happy Mother's Day to all

Today's art class is on drawing Orchid and I took the opportunity to combine it with an excerpt from a famous Tang Dynasty Chinese poem that expounds on the unconditional love of a mother that knows no bound and is beyond any act of repaying, no matter how hard we try, to send a Happy Mother's Day greeting to all.

Ink Pool and Orchid (Lan)

After a two-week hiatus, we resumed our Arts class with the return of Mrs. Fan today. While at San Jose, Mrs. Fan found time to drop by a chinese stationery store and bought for me a nice dark maroon-colored ink plate, which has a more specfiic name translated as an ink pool because of its circular shape. Its surface texture is the smoothest I have ever seen. And one other aspect that I am most happy about is that its cover bears the Chinese zodiac sign of the horse. That is entirely coincidental but it would be hubby's zodiac sign too.

The newly acquired ink pool surrounded by other paraphernalia of Chinese brush painting.

And the output of the day.

Orchid Elegance

We have a new student joining the class yesterday. And we revisited the painting of orchid, starting from its constituents, the petals. Then it just kind of took off ...

Clearing BackLog

This week is another off week for my Arts lesson, the Thanksgiving holidays being the reason. But the show must go on as they say. So I have collected some previously done drawings but which have yet to grace this space for all to enjoy (and to get rid of my backlog too!).

Guan Yin Pusa.

The Mei.

The Chrysanthemum.


Another Mei.

Lan/Orchid

As intimated here, this is a platform for wify to display her creative side. And today I took the decisive step of creating the blog, coinciding with her weekly arts lessons held on every Friday. Today's focus is Lan, aka Orchid, one that has been personified by chinese poets for ages. That means there will be a weekly blog update by the end of each week. The blog title space looks sparce for now. Hopefully this will be rectified soon (Hint! Hint!).

Actually I did not know it is Orchid, until I googled it. And along with that I learn that it's also the national flower of Venezuela.

Here they are, in varying hues.