Experimentations of Fine Art working

Some of my Work - Experimental practices 

Rice has always been a huge part of my life, firstly because I'm Asian and Chinese people sort of eat rice like EVERY SINGLE MEAL. 

Second, whenever i do have a bowl of rice, my grandfather always tells me to finish off every grain, because each grain was made with hard labour and it would be wrong to waste it. 

Did you know that rice has been around for thousand and thousands of years!

This piece is titled "Patience" 

Each rice is placed vertically in horizontal rows. 

I expressed this concept to a few people and none of them said they would do it, how it takes to much time. I also calculated the grains in this piece, row by row;

23 Rows

2,862 grains of rice Total

You see how some grains are more transparent than others, that is because of the superglue. If i were to do this again and on a bigger scale (this one is A4), I would create a slightly visible image using superglue and its transparent property. 

Here i was simply testing with Ink. I was trying to express the heaviness of Ink. How it can drag you down when viewed in a particular way. 

Have you ever watched the Film Hugo?
There was a saying in which i am finding it hard to remember but it was something like this
" In a watch, there are no bad parts,  every piece is put in there for a purpose. Together they make the watch work. "
This made me think about people on earth. None of us a truly bad, and we all have a purpose. Like the pieces in a watch. No matter how small we are, there is a purpose for our existence.

I made these Illustrations and added in clock parts to them. 

Looks slightly robotic but it was fun to do. 

Outside Drawing - Watercolour 

I have always been fascinated but Fauvism. I guess it has a link into psychology which is another subject that i enjoy. In fauvist paintings, artist uses colours that express and emotion. So the sky may not necessarily be blue or grass may not be green.

It all depends on what the artist feels. Seeing emotion play out through their eyes.  

I wanted to get back into painting as i concentrated on installations and sculptures last year.
I went to Holland Park, which is a beautiful park to be in. (See one of my previous blogs about Holland Park)

I wasn't ready to go all out and set up an easel and chair and paint outside just yet, so i started off with watercolours on A4 paper.
It was fun to get back into drawing, in my opinion, the use of vibrant and non realistic colours create a more interesting visual for the viewers, its not boring or immediately direct. It makes you wonder and most importantly feel.

Artist that have inspired me are such like Andre Derain and Henri Matisse.

Transforming Buildings into Abstract Art

It's funny because these building deigns were probably created inspired by abstract art, such as works of De Stijl. Im using the same process but this time backwards. 

Keith Coventry did something similar where he used images of buildings seen from a birds eye view and transformed them into paintings. 

It may be simple and minimal but the concept is strong. 

Again in this, i used a range of colours, not the same to the ones in the original shot.