Beverly Hills Art Show - May 17 & 18

Work in progress from Jeremy's class last night. Can't wait for next week's session~ :)


Been very busy, hasn't visit here for a while. Thanks for all the kind remarks! ^____^

I am participating in a garden setting art show in the beautiful Beverly hills. It would be my first time attending this type of event, and i am very hyped!! Busy printing Gyclees, archival prints and postcards... I hope everyone that lives in the area could come out and join me for some art, demos, music, wine and sun~~


My canopy will be between Rexford Dr. and Crescent Dr. You could also get more info here. See you there~ :P

sw

Update: painting from Jeremy's class:

Busy~

Viruses!

i like this one quite a bit. too bad i miss the first 3 hours of the pose... .\/.

the finish. a labor of work but really nothing inspiring.

It's been so long since i updated~ Mostly due to the viruses of all sorts swarming around~ First i had to live a whole weekend without my computer(O____O) because it was so "dirty" i had to let a technician reinstall my windows... and then there's that mega strong office flu that just won't go away.... Well you catch my drift.

Work's been pretty busy as well~ i doubt there will be any thing besides these life paintings for my blog for a while. but it's always nice to read the kind remarks you blog travelers make... :D thank you so much for cheering up a sneezing soul~

Some cool links to share with you. There is this MOST amazing lineup of painting/drawing workshops from Watts atelier: you have to check it out!! and after a myspace page, Jeremy has a blog as well to showcase his amazing new paintings~ :)

bye now,
sw

Being the lazy old me...

Got sick with the flu last week, and just have been tired and lazy ever since... Downloaded some of my old favorite Lucas Art games because of the craving i got for them when i was too sick to do anything else, and can't stop playing them...!
Did you know that Orson Scott Card wrote the dialogues for the Sword fighting Insults in Monkey Island 1???!!! I learn something new every day. :) what a great series!!!! i wish the genre is still around cause it's the only one for me... But then again maybe it's a good thing that it's gone now, so i actually make art sometime~~~

my Favorite Adventure Game of ALL TIME:
1. The Longest Journey
2. Neverhood
3. The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: the Case of the Rose Tattoo

If anyone knows of anyway to run Rose Tattoo on a XP please tell me!!! i never finished that game... *___* Then again... maybe don't tell me...

Forgive my blahing~~
sw

Finished. i was hating it all the way through cause i like the unfinished part MUCH better.

this week's unfinished painting~

Magic the Gathering~

Update with Bigger version~ it was a exploration with watercolor that went wrong, so i am not really happy with the colors ~ oh well.

One of the very first cards i did for WoTC is finally coming out~ ^___^ Hope you enjoy it~


and you can see the other two here and here.

Story Devourer
(District XB4001, Hollywood)

Tell me a story
a jolly good one please

of glass castles that glare
in the sky that baths in grease

of steel beasts that roar
down the paths that never cease

Tell me a story
Six dollars a piece

of knights that fought each other
by comparing their heart decease

of witches that changed into maidens
fat from their thighs transferred to their knees

Tell me a story
and in it you shall dwell~
forever without release

Thought up the verses before i started to think of the pic~ just a speed painting of tonite. a bit on the angry side, but oh well, try driving on the 101 and you will know what i mean.

sw

Update: Unfinished painting from Jeremy's Workshop. If anyone's interested there's another one starting after next week, and there's still one or two slots. i will be there again~ :)

Workshop painting

3 hours from Jeremy's class two nights ago. Work has gotten quite busy so sorry about tardy updates~ ^___^
Anyone has Erik Satie's whole collection...? is it worth getting? or just the "Best of"s...?

sw

happy new year

Rather a solemn start of a new year... as the traditional Chinese saying goes, 年年有余, "May you be blessed with fishes(left overs) each and every year." So, take a mermaid.
this is also an unfinished piece for LMS3 for CA.org. so crits and suggestions welcome~

sw

Benazir Bhutto,12-27-07

Tend to avoid politics on this blog. But when i see this news i can't help feeling shocked and saddened by the untimely death of the hope that was Pakistan's Civil and Female Rights. i just watched "Persepolis", and thought it should win the academy awards for Best Animation because we can't close our eyes to what kind of world we are living in. it's definitely scarier and bloodier than any Zombie movies i have seen. While struggling to create beauty and harmony in my personal paintings, some other people are doing it on a grander scale to better many people's lives. i can't help but wonder maybe that was why i do art as well. the quiet persuasiveness of beauty and wonder, tho silent but unrelenting, might lure people away from so much blood shed and lives wasted in the names of all things grand but darn right meaningless. At least that's my hope.

Sorry about the rant. Have a great New Year and i hope you all hold truth, beauty, love in your hearts, for darkness is so deep and we all, lose our way sometime.

shelly wan

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays~

A little card to all my friends and loved ones in this holiday season~ Though we always grow old may we never grow up.

sw 2007

Sunday Paintings~

My camera died in front of a Liepke painting when i visited the gallery a second time~ So i finally gotten some pics of my sunday paintings from last week and this~ OH and i unwisely took these out under the sunlight so the color is off~~ Hummmmm~

Jeremy Lipking workshop has TWO OPENINGS THIS WEEKEND!

Jeremy told me tonight around 10pm that the Previously filled workshop has magically re-open up for two lucky people~! It won't last long so sign up quick!! I am taking his tuesday night workshops right now and he's been an amazing teacher and a great guy to hang around. He went out of his way to fetch me the pen that Liepke signed my book with! ^0^ So trust me, watching and painting along with him is so so worth it.

The little black strap...

Liepke's show was hot as hell, as one could have imagined... i plan to go back there and take more pictures as there were too many people on the opening night. Please, do your eyes a favor and go feast on these... He even signed my book~ ^o^



and here's my sunday painting. i really messed up the values on this one; the red light threw me off completely~ darn it.

Malcolm Liepke

Malcolm Liepke.

Opening This Saturday Dec 1. Staying up till the 15.

43 originals.

Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.

I got this info from StuartNg Books' email list; though i don't see it on the gallery's site...? But i am definitely gonna be there~

Listening to "Painted Veil" OST. Found videos on Youtube with real people playing the songs instead of music videos. Quite good they are, maybe a bit too fast/slow compare to the soundtrack for me, but nevertheless amazing.

Happy Thanksgiving~

Again from Felini~ Can't tell from my studies, but he really is a freaking genius. Composition, Lighting, Values, Color~ Not mentioning the Story!!! O____O I shall make a note of visiting his grave and pay my respect if i was fortunate to return to Italy...

I think because i tried to harmonize my colors this time i lost my value structure since i was using white way too much. hmmmmmm~ hopefully i can do better next time. (look at color keys from animation...)

Oh and Happy Thanksgiving! ^____^ I hope all the Indian Casinos are rolling in loads of cash right now~ and passing it on to people with at least 1/8 of American Indian blood~ and they can build houses with strong fences that say "Thanks. But no Giving this time".

That was lame... sorry! :p

Film studies

checking out this show ASAP:

"The Art of the Motion Picture Illustrator" show at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Drool...Darn. when you have to know how to draw and compose to get a job. i would probably be pedaling shoe laces back then~ :P

just got home after work, so it was a long day. But i do have some film studies. From Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, and Federico Fellini's Satyricon. Two of my favorite directors besides Eisenstein. Yep i am old school~ :)




Big Sam doesn't think my colors are harmonizing enough. He suggested for me to do some still lifes from life. Which is probably what i would do come this weekend. and i also signed up for a Jeremy Lipking workshop~ Fun fun fun~

sw

The Perfume OST

Watched "Beowulf" in the new Arclight Sherman oaks on its opening night, Friday. It's great! The lobby even features costumes and the air thingy from "No country for old man". O___O yeah you know what i mean. The movie was way better than expected. but then again i never expected it to be great. It had a great script thanks to Neil Gaiman, and because i didn't know the story before it was a good surprise.

i kept listening to the OST of "Perfume" this whole week as if i need it to breathe. so i figure i should post it here to get you all addicted as well. Addition's better when everyone's doing it no? :)

edit: Sunday painting.

Some great chinese artists

Work has finally gotten its grip on me, so i can not longer post regularly as before. But while i was looking through some of the art books i got in China tonight for inspiration, i decided it might be good to share with you some great Chinese artists' works.


Ai Xuan. His father is one of the most accomplished contemporary Chinese poets. The images are regretfully small on his official site, and some of my favs are not up there.

Xia Jun Na. A very young female artist who strangely embodied my favorite school of painters, the Nabis, all by herself. Her works might be an acquired taste, but i love them beyond everything.


Chen Yi Fei. His works are hailed as the most expensive in China. I have a sort of love hate relationship with his works: sometimes they can be just too cheesy. But the above painting really sets him in the categories of my favorites. Again the only images i could find all have pretty poor quality.

Hope you enjoyed looking at them! :)

sw

film studies~

From the wonderful Barry Lyndon, again. Also saw "No country for old man" at Arclight. Darn. No words come to mind to describe the film. It's soooooo scary i...laughed and covered my eyes. Seriously. I can still see that killer's face. O_____O... i hope that's one actor i would never see on the street. :o(

sunday painting~

Sunday is the official "look around the web for great art" day at the Wankenobi house. And i want to share some Better than Amazing links with you~

For whoever that's left in the world that doesn't know of Paul Lasaine's blog yet, you own it to yourself to check his work out!
and for those of you that love Rackham and Dulac's children's' illustrations, here's a gem of a website i can't get enough of.
and i can't believe some of my friends haven't heard of Art Renewal~ They have very high rez scans of art work by realism painters~ yum~

Oh and then there's my sucky painting from today's workshop. ;P