Gold-propped Pandas

Gold color that is, delineating the trees, the grass, the bamboo, the log, the ball, and the timber wall that surround the frolicking pandas.

Hey, Good Mama.

Come on, talk to me.

This is yummy.

This is the panda pose for bowling, doing it in the seated position.

Panda at ease. Do not disturb!

From Birds to Pandas

The buddy painting session could not be convened yesterday because Mrs. Kim would like to be with her son, Mark, during the high school spring break. But she did not slacken, completing two paintings at her home while I did a Gong Pi painting of birds.

Then today I revisited panda painting based on the series of panda photographs received from Janet via email. These photographs portray pandas in various hilarious poses as they enjoy their natural habitat, doing fun things as innocent children would. I only changed the setting to suit my own sense of their surroundings.

Painting Contrast

In style (Gong Pi vs One-Brush), in form (flowers as static vs fish as dynamic), and in motion (swimming vs perching).

Fusion painting of Birds and Flowers

Fusion is a popular term used to describe a mixture of things normally applied to food preparation, as in different ethnic food items, or to movies, as in portraying different eras with their distintive costumes. Here I use fusion to mean mixing birds patterned after close-up photos of live birds and flowers/plants patterned after other painted works, to come out with my own renderings.

Bamboo for Resilience

The evolving details of Bamboo painting

From a lone bamboo tree, to a bamboo cluster, to the company of a single bird, then a couple of birds, covering the spectrum of dynamism from stillness to flight. That's the versatility of painting in varying details, limited only by the imagination of the one wielding the mighty brush.

Bamboo with New Brush

We converged on Linda's house yesteday morning for our monthly Chinese brush painting class, one by one streaming into her home with bagfuls of arts supply in one hand, and prepared food in another. We painted bamboo for the class. And I added a couple more at home, using some of the new Chinese brushes bought by Brother Yang on our behalf on his recent trip back to Taiwan.