1st October 2022 Ms Lavendar Jong I love watercolour painting. I usually look for interesting pictures on Pinterest and YouTube for inspiration. this painting, I have attempted to create a loose style of painting. To make those flowers come to the foreground, I had to do a lot more negative painting. Negative painting is a…
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Bliss
1st October 2022 Ms AnnSu Hi, I love to talk about this painting I did a while ago in December 2021. It is a watercolour painting. It shows a group of young African boys singing. I struggled to try to capture their expression with my painting. I was mesmerised by the sheer joy on their…
Grief and Love
1st October 2022 Ms Kala Pohl 1st October 2022 Ms Kala Pohl “Grief never ends……..but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith…… It is a price of love”
Mr Nori’s Predicament
1st October 2022 Dr Beena Hello everyone😊😊. I hope you will enjoy the little story about this family. I painted this picture from a photo of Mr Chiam’s hens and a single cockerel. They were all feeding from a single tray. I thought, what a lovely family. Hence the inspiration for my painting😄😄. Mr Nori…
Perspectives
16th September 2022 Dr Beena Hello, today I will discuss something that I find perplexing🤔. For this week, when I wished to paint this picture of two peacocks standing on a wall, I could not get that wall correctly😒😒. I did many drafts. When you look down, the wall seems fine, but when you look…
Mandala
9th September 2022 Dr Beena Hello there🙏, I hope we are hanging in there despite the sad news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth, the longest-reigning monarch in British history. When I sent this mandala greeting this morning, one of my friends commented that there is no symmetry. He said mandalas have symmetrical designs. A…
Poo Kolam
Poo Kolam 8th September 2022 Dr Beena Hello, everyone; today is Onam, the harvest festival for Malayalees😊😊😊. It is not a well-known festival like other Indian festivals, but for us, it is a special occasion. I wish to reveal a secret here; I nearly forgot until one of my young friends reminded me that he…
Self Worth
3rd September 2022 Ms Kala Pohl Self Worth The only one who gets to decide your worth is you. It doesn’t come from your bank account or the number of friends you have. It doesn’t come from what someone else says you are worth. It’s called self worth for a reason -it…
Waves
2nd September 2022 Mr Nandakumar I would love to share my thoughts on waves. I love to watch waves at the beach. When I painted this, it occurred to me that the word “waves” have a much-varied meaning. For example, I can wave to a friend; seeing an old friend, I was filled with waves…
Mundane Serenity
2nd September 2022 Dr Beena Hello there! I hope you are reading the stories others wrote, and please give your comments as we love to read them😍😍. Today I wish to share something new about this painting. It was my art classwork. It is called Pointillism. In 1886, George Seurat and Paul Signac developed this…