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Painting: Tug Boat

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

TUG BOAT by you.

TUG BOATS are perhaps the most unglamorous of all the boats. not as big as luxury ships, not as beautiful as yachts, and not as fast as speed boats. They look ugly, they’re small, and not as pretty to look at as other boats. Yet, they get the job done and are very useful. They help park ships quadruple their size,move industrial barges, lead Billion Dollar warships and tow Oil rigs. Tugboats are highly maneuverable, and its various propulsion systems have been developed to increase maneuverability and increase safety.
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I haven’t painted in a long while (traditinally, that is), and getting bacvk to it takes a lot of drive and inspiration just to get back that passion that used to burn infinitely within me. But I’m glad that i did. Since getting back to painting and smelling paints out of tube and seeing hues brushed on textured paper is kind of liberating– almost a healing process for me. It has its different effect ,different on howthe way photography gives me a different pesonal fulfillment or how poetry has that reflectional effect within me. i didn’t realize how I needed that feeling until I realize how I lost it. and just like that, the hunger is back. Anyway, the above painting is a continuation of my painting urge, that emanated from thinking of painting something so common but are more than what they seem to look or being perceived. This is the third one i’ve painted this month. The first one is the Banana still life i posted on Flickr, and a location painting in Chinese garden (will post that here soon).

Hope you like it. cheers.

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Chinese Gardens of Singapore

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I’ve had a chance to visit the Chinese Gardens again because Jean toured some of her former classmates around while on a short trip here. While Jean and her friends roamed the gardens with Jean having her D40 with her, it was a chance for me to really just sit back and take some few shots that I wanted. A deviation from the usual things when all you think about is having a picture of yourself. It was like really meeting someone intimately… And I wanted to show in my pictures something that the garden symbolizes, like mood, feeling and its personality. I hope i did though, since I was very happy with these few pics. some PP were done to further invoke the mood that I wanted to project, but still a faithfull personafication of the actual thing. Aside from the pictures, I also painted, since I brought my watercolour sets with me. but that’s another story that I will tackle soon.

Connections by you.

The Journey by you.

Our Sanctuary by you.

Serenity by you.

Sunset at Chinese Garden by you.

Chinese Garden (Chinese: 裕华园), also commonly known as Jurong Gardens, is a park in Jurong East, Singapore. The garden was built in 1975 and designed by Prof. Yuen-chen Yu, a well-known architect from Taiwan, the Chinese Garden’s concept is based on Chinese gardening art. The main characteristic is the integration of splendid architectural features with the natural environment. The Chinese Garden is modelled along the northern Chinese imperial style of architecture and landscaping. It is located next to Chinese Garden MRT Station.