Saturday, July 31, 2010

Learning Task 3 - Draw A Person




Hi I Ling
The above drawing is for learning task 3 as below.
Haha.... I just need to spend about 15 minutes to complete the above drawing where I NEVER expect that I can do it......



"Learning Task 3 - Draw A Person

Once you have drawn a person and determined its gender, draw another picture of a person of the opposite sex to the first picture. You should have two pictures drawn. I will be asking you to pair up and set up a meeting through Skype as you practice facilitating each in turn to facilitate each other and develop associations to the images produced. Give feedback and share your discussion of the facilitative process and any sharings of what transpired in terms of clarity and insights you may have gained as a result of your experienced of being facilitated. You are requested to enter your reflections in your Personal Learning Journal about the experience itself. You may recall an example of the initial process if you were to listen to Tutorial 1. The tasks will help you develop the kind of questions and style that would help in the self-inquiry process of your partner through your facilitation. I have made the list of the random pairing.

I Ling - Seok Binn"

Friday, July 30, 2010

PitLits 5 - Nothing is Impossible

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I can do it
You can do it
WE did it
Nothing is Impossible


Hi ALS members,
WE share
WE try
WE explore
WE learn
WE play
WE confront
WE confuse
WE enjoy and have fun
Nothing is Impossible
Mission Impossible also become POSSIBLE

Thursday, July 29, 2010

PicLits 4 - Enjoy Life

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Wah!!! When I saw this picture, really feel like want to drink.
One of my favour drink - Red Bean Shake......

"Reading book at beach with a glass of red bean shake, with laugh sound of my kids playing with sand and my husband is busy with taking photo and playing with kids"

Haha... it is my Langkawi trip last month but without red bean shake lah, just with 100 plus & Nescafe.......

Our life journey is not long, therefore we should ENJOY and have FUN!!!


Looking forward for this Sept school holiday where will bring kids go to beach picnic, set up camp site, fishing and also drawing. We have bought tent and fishing equipment. Haha..... don't know whether know how to use fishing equipment or not.... Let the them to handle it.-

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01 Aug 2010

After read Alex's comment on I Ling blog, since nobody put on comment, therefore I just add and try on it.

Red bean, syrup and ice
Mix and blend
Become so sweet and tasteful

Red, pink and orange flowers
Put them together
Become so vitality and beautiful



Red Flowers
Red is believed to increase enthusiasm and interest, enhance human metabolism, raise blood pressure and increase respiration rates. Quite obviously red is hard to miss - it grabs our attention and stimulates us into making quick decisions. It is also the first spectral color our eyes see. Add a dash of white to it and you have pink, which tones down our reactions, producing softer feelings of gentleness and tenderness.

http://www.flowermeaning.org/redflower.html


Orange Flowers
Orange is a color associated with the fall season. It stimulates creativity and feelings of joy. People who like orange are said to be thoughtful and sincere. A powerful 'impact1 color, orange is difficult to miss and is very effective as an attention grabber.

Although regarded as dynamic and powerful, orange is nevertheless thought of in a healing context, perhaps because for Buddhists it represents enlightenment.

The perception of orange depends on the percentage of red it contains. When equal amounts of red and yellow are present, orange conveys feelings of calm and optimism. Add more red and reactions become warmer, reflecting the heat of the sun. Reduce the red and increase the yellow and you get less of a feeling of harmony.


http://www.flowermeaning.org/orangeflower.html


Tuesday, July 27, 2010

PicLits 3 - Let's me hold your HAND

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Hand
I hold your hand
no matter what happens,
I will NEVER let my hand go


When I saw this picture, I remember back what I wrote in CPPD-Story Telling and also 2 days ago, I read on China Press that a grandma have to feed 3 grandchild aged 10,8 and 7 with monthly income of RM30 only. I really can't imagine how can a parent left their kids like that. The kids' parents still alive.
The above old hand like the grandma holding the grandchild's hand.
I just share this news with my kids. Thank you very much that my kids suggest and willing to take out their saving to donate to this grandma.
For me, I will protect and guild them as much as possible and I will NEVER let my hand go.

Sumopaint Art 2


Dawn



Hope

Monday, July 26, 2010

PicLits 2 - Be Proud of Yourself

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The Dreams Encyclopedia: Peacock
A beautiful bird of exquisite color and grace that seems to strut with pride and even with arrogance, the peacock may indicate that the dreamer is as "proud as a peacock" about some accomplishment and would like to "show off."

Sign Language Videos: peacock
sign description: The G-hand placed at the mouth, opens and closes, followed by the open 5-hand making a sweeping and twisting motion.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Artist - Zhang Da Qian 张大千



Zhang Daqian (simplified Chinese: 张大千; traditional Chinese: 張大千; pinyin: Zhāng Dàqiān; Wade-Giles: Chang Ta-Chien) (May 10, 1899 - April 2, 1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua (traditionalist; 國畫) painter, by the 1960's he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. Chang is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.

Background
Born in a family of artists in Neijiang, Sichuan, China, he studied textile dyeing techniques in Kyoto, Japan and returned to establish a successful career selling his paintings in Shanghai. A staunch supporter of the Kuomintang, he left China in 1948 and moved to Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, and then to Carmel, California, before finally settling in Taipei, Taiwan.[1]

A meeting between Zhang and Picasso in Antibes in 1953 was viewed as a summit between the preeminent masters of Eastern and Western art. The two men exchanged paintings at this meeting.[2]

Forgeries
Chang's forgeries are difficult to detect for many reasons. First, his ability to mimic the great Chinese masters:

So prodigious was his virtuosity within the medium of Chinese ink and colour that it seemed he could paint anything. His output spanned a huge range, from archaising works based on the early masters of Chinese painting to the innovations of his late works which connect with the language of Western abstract art."[3]

Second, he paid scrupulous attention to the materials he used. "He studied paper, ink, brushes, pigments, seals, seal paste, and scroll mountings in exacting detail. When he wrote an inscription on a painting, he sometimes included a postscript describing the type of paper, the age and the origin of the ink, or the provenance of the pigments he had used." [4] Third, he often forged paintings based on descriptions in catalogues of lost paintings; his forgeries came with ready-made provenance. [4]

Chang's forgeries have been purchased as original paintings by many major art museums in the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Of particular interest is a master forgery acquired by the Museum in 1957 as an authentic work of the tenth century. The painting, which was allegedly a landscape by the Five Dynasties period master Guan Tong, is one of Zhang’s most ambitious forgeries and serves to illustrate both his skill and his audacity.[5]

James Cahill, professor emeritus of Chinese art at the University of California, Berkeley, has claimed that the painting "The Riverbank," a 10th century masterpiece from the Southern Tang Dynasty, held by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, is likely another Chang Dai-chien forgery.[6]

Museum curators are cautioned to examine all questionable Chinese paintings of all genres with the query, "Could this be by Zhang Daqian?"[5] Joseph Chang, curator of Chinese art at the Sackler Museum, posits that practically every notable collection of Chinese art contains a forgery by the master painter.[6]



张大千——山水、花鸟和人物,1957年,以写意画《秋海棠》被纽约国际艺术学会选为世界大画家,并荣获金奖。
张大千:(1901-1984)名爱,又名秀,季菱,字大千,别号大千居士,或迳署“署人张大千”。四川内江人,幼年受擅长绘画的母亲和以画虎著称,自号“虎痴”的二哥张善 的熏陶指引,并从名师曾农髯,李梅阉学诗文、书法和绘画。除临摹历代名迹外,又遍游名山大川,以造化为师,经过刻苦钻研,获得了卓越揲诚就。青年时代,即与二哥张善 齐名,二十多岁,曾赴日本留学,学过染织,回国后,一度迷于佛学,曾去宁天童寺“皈依佛门”,想当和尚,据说,他怕在头上烫九个香记,只好等待别了师父弘筏大和尚,回到现实世界来,青年时期就能画一手很好的具有石涛、八大人画风的作品,几可乱真,所以有“南方石涛”之称。他早年画的《石涛画册》,竟被著名鉴赏家、画家陈半丁作为石涛“真迹”珍藏起来,以夸耀于画友面前,被张大千识破指出,后来传为佳话,足以证明千在二十几岁在摹拟古人传统绘画的功力和成就,已经是惊人了。张大千于1940年后,用了两年半的时间,对于我国敦煌洞窟,逐个整理编号,进行临摹,丰富了绘画技法。1948年适居香港,后又旅居印度、法国、巴西等国。1984年病逝台湾,享年八十四岁。
张大千以擅长画荷花著称,素有“古今画荷的登峰造极”之誉,此次荣宝春季拍卖会上,还有一幅张大千画于1980年的《荷花》拍卖,估价150万元至250万元。






Flower and Bird Paintings

Example this drawing has been purchased by Reader Digits for USD1.4 million.









Landscape Painting
Sold at RMB803 Million
















Figure Paintings





More pictures, pls refer to below link
http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/gallery-zhang-daqian.php




I love the unique of the picture where the color of the leaves.... green? blue?...


Lotus flowers
In Buddhism, lotus flowers mean purity of speech, mind and body rising above the waters of desire and attachment. White symbolizes spiritual perfection and complete mental purity.
Blue means wisdom, knowledge and victory over the senses.


Three Lotus flowers
Number Three represents solid, real, substantial, complete and entire.


Two blue leaves

Number Two is kindness, balance, tact, equalization, and duality.
Blue is seen as trustworthy, dependable and committed. The color of sky and the ocean, blue is perceived as a constant in our lives.

Why are there no blue leaves?
Plants get their energy for food by the process of photosynthesis. The chloroplasts in the leaves contain pigments (colors) that absorb red and blue light and reflect green
and yellow light. Since leaves depend on photosynthesis and since the blue
light is needed, then a plant would die without using the blue light. So no
blue light is reflected and so you don't see any blue light coming from any
leaves. Sometimes leaves are red, but underneath the red there is green.



Friday, July 23, 2010

Try on PicLirs Gallery - Rainbow

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After the rain
Your colours appear
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet
Signaling new life and beauty for all around us
We gaze with wonder at your splender

Monday, July 19, 2010

Draw a Person

After reading the email, Alex want me to draw a person!!! How? My drawing is very poor.

I still remember that I willing to pass up my biology practical exam paper without draw a borne which carry 10 marks out of 40 marks.

Now.... HOW???? I know I have to draw. But how?
Spend the whole night but still don't know how to draw........

Wake up in the morning, try to draw....
end up not a person but a butterfly fairy.....
Never mind lah....it is a good start.





May be influence by my daughters, draw like a ballerina,
Sitting in my house garden, it because a butterfly fairy.

To be continued to draw a person tonite.