Digital Painting: Old Man

Old age is something we all have to confront. Some take it graciously, and some try every means available to conceal it. Yet, I believe we do not grow absolutely or chronologically. We grow sometimes in terms of aspects and  dimension, getting old in one feature or characteristic, and not in another; we grow therefore unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. We are part of a biological process called Aging, but we can choose to be Forever Young.

"OLD MAN"

Digital painting done on impressionistic style.  All rights reserved.

Wave of Whites and Reds

This is one of my favourite image from the pictures I've taken during my son's participation of their school's National Day Celebration last August. I took a series of frames for this shot as they are waving their small flags, chanting to the music. This is only one of the few lucky shots who really captured my son sharp. Taken with a lensbaby 2.0 mounted on Nikon DSLR.

On the other hand, I have uploaded new update for TRISTAN . 

shadows of past

I smile now with a sigh

My wings have stretched to the sky
when I look up at the heavens
I see her face in the stars at night
In moonlit shadows I see her grin

She made me happy, again.

The stage has been crumbled and turned down
The clowns have lost their crowd and frowned

And I know she will never return 

To dark dust her blazing trail turned

Yet happiness now I own
I will sleep well and sound…

For in darkness I've grown.

Meditation Court

 “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

–Bruce Lee

Above is one of the themed courtyards we designed that linked several I.T. buildings together. This is a part of a whole complex of project we are doing for Hexaware Technologies in India. it has a very extensive landscape and development plan that went through several stages of design to please the client. This particular courtyard is dubbed "Meditation Court" and has two  water features in it (a natural looking lagoon and a waterfall that plunges and act as a focal element of interest to the floor below. I'll be posting more of this project as I finish every segment.

The building is very "hard", composed of mainly modern polished stone- cladded, steel and glass exterior. Therefore the landscape's place-making is directed towards balancing that hardness with "softness" that incorporates natural elements of mounded turfing(grass), water, stones, rocks and lush planting with that of functionality.