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Oh mine! I can’t believe this blog is still running! I haven’t been here for three years! I think I should move this blog under my blogger account and, hopefully, continue to write something here.
Posted on November 28th, 2010 by yannc2021
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To prepare for my end of year exam this year, I drew some famous illusions. I think they are very interesting. Can you see the illusion?
(Medium: Pencil)
Young woman or old lady?
This is perhaps the most famous illusion. Everyone knows this. But have you seen an improved version of this?
(Medium: Pencil)
Now there are three people in this picture. Young woman, old lady or old man? (Hint: Cover the left part of the picture to see the old man)
(Medium: Pencil)
Donkey or seal? (Hint: the ears of the donkey are the fins of the seal)
(Medium: Pencil)
Another famous one. Rabbit or duck? (Hint: The beak of the duck is the ears of the rabbit)
(Medium: Marker)
Jazz player or lady? (Hint: cover the right part of the picture to see the jazz player)
(Medium: Pencil)
Red Indian or the back view of an Eskimo? (Hint: the nose of the Red Indian is the arm of the Eskimo)
(Medium:Pencil)
Here’s an interesting one. The first picture shows a duck eating a man. The second picture is exactly the same as the first picture only that it’s inverted, it shows a man on a boat watching a giant fish. The body of the duck becomes an island while the legs become trees. Amazing isn’t it?
(Medium: Marker)
Face or the word “Lair”?
(Medium: Poster and Color Pencil)
Can you see the two hidden faces?
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by yannc2021
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I drew this in Sec 2. It’s a practice on the different gradients of green. I also did exercises on red and brown, but I like this one the best.
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by yannc2021
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Medium: Marker
I was browsing through my art file today and came across this logo. I designed this in Sec 1 for the lifeskills camp. The theme was “Integrating into the Nanyang Family”. I can rarely rememeber what I did in Sec 1. I find this very cute, though not a very good logo. Through this logo, I can see how immature and childish I was then. Compare this with my current work, there such a big difference.
Posted on September 5th, 2007 by yannc2021
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Medium: Pencil
Another human + dog thing. This time is a very pretty woman + a poodle with a shawl. Currently, I’m designing characters for my final work. My final work is going to be a series of three color pencil drawings. The theme is to explore the relashionship between man and dog. I need to design three sets of characters with very different appearance. This one is a very rich and trendy dog. We usually relate this kind of dogs to poodles. To make it look even more arrogant and rich, I added a shawl and a pair of shades. My next aim is to design her master. I think it’s going to be a very mascular bull dog.
Posted on September 5th, 2007 by yannc2021
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I’ve always wanted to do mosaic. I think it’s very interesting and beautiful. Mosaic reminds me of churches, gives me this sacred and holy feeling.
On my trip to Italy, I came across many beautiful mosaic works. So what exactly is mosaic? It’s actually the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. It can be an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral.
In other words, mosaic is using small pieces of colored glass or stones to create a pattern or picture.
A mosaic of Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus in the Vatican Museum. It is amazing how the artist could use pieces of colored glass to create a picture.
A mosaic window in Duomo. This kind of mosaic windows can be found in many churches.
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by yannc2021
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Last time I talked about the statues in the Vatican Museum. Now I’m going to introduce the rest of the mueseum.
The Gallery of Maps
The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous places in the world. Many people flock to the Vatican Museum to check out the art of the Sistine Chapel. Before they reach the Sistine Chapel, they will pass through the Gallery of Maps. It is a 120m long gallery, entirely painted with amazingly accurate maps of the whole of Italy. The picture shown above is the ceiling of the Gallery of Maps. The decorations on the vaulted ceiling is the work of a group of Mannerist artists.
The Sistine Chapel
Here comes the famous Sistine Chapel. Actually we were not allowed to take pictures there, but I secretly took one of the Last Judgement.
The Sistine Chapel is the place where the conclave for the election of the popes and other solemn ceremonies are held. It is built between 1475 and 1481, by Giovannino de Dolci and designed by Baccio Pontelli. It is a large rectangle with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and it is divided into two parts by a marble screen. The screen was built by Mino da Fiesole and other artists.
The frescoes on the long walls are painted between 1481 and 1483 by Perugino, Botticelli, Cosimo Rosselli and Domenico Ghirlandaio, with their assistants. The barrel-vaulted ceiling is entirely covered by the famous frescoes which Michelangelo painted between 1508 and 1512 for Julius II. More than 20 years later, Michelangelo was summoned back by Paul III to paint the Last Judgement on the wall behind the altar. He worked on it from 1536 to 1541.
Ceiling in Raphael’s Room
The painting of the Last Judgement, painted on the wall of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. I broke the rules 
and was able to sneak a foto - the guards are very clear about no cameras and no talking
These are not paintings, they are frescos in the Raphael’s Rooms.
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by yannc2021
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ESREVER
Medium: Poster
Dimensions: 29.7cm x 42.1cm
You may wonder what is “ESREVER”. Of course it’s not a English word, but when you read it backwards, it is “REVERSE”!
Reverse is the theme of this painting. I always find life very ironic. Things always go the opposite as you want them to be. I am a night owl. I am always awake at night and very sleepy during day, especially during lesson time. Sometimes I can stay awake till 6am in the morning. Time is reversed to me. This painting is basically about the reverse of day and night.
This painting can be divided into 3 components: day with moon, night with sun and the backwards clock. All of these 3 components show the reverse of day and night.
There are two distinguished types of brush strokes used. I used wavy and expressive brush strokes to present the clouds in the day. This is to show the link to the original theme given, twirls and swirls. As for the night scene, I used distinct, short and broad brush strokes to present the darkness of the night. This is adapted from the famous “Starry Night Over the Rhone” by Van Gogh.
Starry Night Over the Rhone
I feel that the composition is rather awkward. I think it is because the painting is divided into 2 equal parts. It could be better if the two parts are not exactly the same size.
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by yannc2021
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These are some of the drawings and sketches for my end of year paper in Sec 3. The theme was on the distortion of time. I decided to design some distorted clocks.
The first thing came into my mind when I thought of distorted clocks was Dali’s clocks and his “The Persistence of Memory”. I studied Dali’s clocks and did a color pencil drawing of Salvador Dali’s distorted clock. Many of this kind of clocks can be found in Dali’s Persistence of Memory.
The Persistence of Memory is probably the most famous painting by Salvador Dali. It is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This painting introduced the idea of soft melting pocket watch. It epitomises Dali’s theory of softness and hardness, which was central to thinking at that time. This painting can also be interpreted as a graphic illustration of Einstein’s theory of Relativity. In this theory states that the speed of light, c, is a constant, disregards to the speed of the observer. This can only be true if time dilates when it is close to the speed of light. This painting depicts the distortion of time.
Inspired by Dali, I also designed some distorted clocks myself.
Musical Clock. The clock needles bear the shape of the treble clef, and the clock surface is made up of five lines.
Swirl Clock. The shape of the clock is no longer flat, it’s distorted. I like the irregular shape of the clock needles in particular.
Reverse clock. Notice that the time actually goes back. The reverse clock can be seen in the market, but not very common of course. It will be amazing if time really goes back.
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by yannc2021
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Medium: Pencil
A X-Ray for the dog. It’s scary. Look at those teeth! This is a sketch for my coursework. It was one of my first research drawings, not very relevant to the theme now.
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by yannc2021
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