5th February 2022 Dr Beena Hello everyone. Today we have an exciting piece of art. It is called a cross-stitch. I am not sure how many of you are familiar with this art. The craft reminds me of needlepoint from ancient Egypt. Though both are hand embroidery, they are different. Dr Mathew George did this…
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Come and Sit Awhile With Me
4th February 2022 Dr Tan Poh Tin My 1993 flour-dough handcrafted and hand-painted creation “Girl on a Garden Bench” invites you to pause and join her, to breathe deeply and smell the flowers. Her loyal dog may move closer to her and switch his watchful eye to you. Don’t worry, he’s well trained. Her…
Bouquet For Your Kind Thoughts
4th February 2022 Dr Tan Poh Tin It’s the Chinese New Year. In Malaysia it is a public holiday for two days. Some Chinese businesses stay closed till day four. Greeting cards are now extinct, replaced by messages on social media. Receiving them, even the viralized generic e-cards gives me a feel-good feeling…
Time is Precious
3rd February 2022 Dr Beena I wish to introduce art created by my friend Dr Tan Poh Tin. It is called Dough Art. She found this in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1993 during her travels. I have never heard of this art before. Now, this form of art uses two parts of dough to one part…
Off the Bad Vibes!
30th January 2022 Mrs Annie R Teo Once every so often, we all come to experience an encounter of the unpleasant type. I recently made such an encounter, and I must confess that I did let it get to me, a bit. The good news is that it also taught me something valuable and somehow…
Tiger and Meta Word
30th January 2022 Dr Beena Hello everyone😊. Where ever you may be, may you be in peace. I did this painting in watercolour in Chinese style in my art class. We had this assignment as this is the year of the Tiger for the Chinese Lunar New Year. The sample given was in a digital…
Rain Or Shine
23rd Jan 2022 Dr Beena Hello everyone, wherever you may be, I hope all are fine😊. The weather in Kuching was pretty dismal, with a stretch of rainy days with grey skies ☹. But it is nothing like what happened in Tonga☹☹. Tonga is a laid back and idyllic place. However, the recent images were…
Enigma of Art and the Artist
23rd January 2022 Dr Beena Hello everyone. Once again, maybe I am in a writing mood😊. I drew this picture last year of a famous actress and great humanitarian as part of my art classwork. It was the first time we learned to use a pencil to draw a black and white picture. Multiple layers…
Being Cheerful
Being Cheerful😊 20th Jan 2022 Dr Beena Hello everyone😊. I want to share this aspect of art that I just learned. It is called Pointillism. Hm………….now I have never heard of this word. So let us delve in and see what it means. I did this art classwork yesterday. However, it took me six hours…
Rooster and Coq au Vin
15th January 2022 Annie R Teo Sometimes all it takes is a picture to trigger a whole lot of thoughts, if I’m not wrong, those are called ideograms and I definitely found one in Beena’s magnificent cockerel. Now you may be wondering (as I hope you do) what the image of a cockerel means to…