The Starry Night (7&8/10/2017) - Get to know Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890

 The Starry Night (medium - soft oil pastel) - present to you by the young artists.

Hi all, you must be puzzled that why am I not posting a weekly picture after the lesson, like I usually did. It's because your child(ren) were doing great works! I wanted to preserve their good works and present them in immortal(as long as I keep this blog... I guess, haha!)

Kids were so attracted by Vincent Van Gogh's story and of course his paintings! They pretty shock that such a great artist (art works sold in billions of dollars...) lived in a poverty condition and got rejected from loving someone... The insanity act of Van Gogh that cut off part his left ear to be presented to loved one and at the committed suicide by shoot himself on the chest... The whole life of Van Gogh is just tragedy but why he could produced such a GREAT works one after another... ?? 

We all won't know and the answer, my friends is in the air...

No title were given to kids except an instruction - Observe, see closely what is so special, draw what you see...

This is pretty accurate ... beautiful circular lines and strokes...

Gorgeous lines isn't?

Starry Night from a little girl recently turn 4.

A bright Starry Night

A mid Summer Starry Night, don't you think so?

Another authentic artwork from a 4 years old boy.

14 master piece in total, one more to be presented soon...

R e - Discover Vincent Van Gogh in the land of windmails

Vincent ~ one of the most ORIGINAL artist ever, Vincent Van Gogh worked as an evangelist before taking up painting at age 27. He was largely self-taught, but absorbed the inspiring lessons of Impressionism during two years in Paris. Then he moved alone to Arles in the south of France...

In Arles, Van Gogh painted the landscapes, still-lives and portraits which became his most famous works. They are all signed simply 'Vincent'

The special way on COLOUR study

One of the most curious objects preserved at the Van Gogh Museum is a slightly battered Chinese red lacquer box containing 16 colourful balls of wool and a few loose strands of yarn. This unusual box of yarns relates to the artist's understanding of colour theory, and derives from a specific educational practice.

Almond Blossom 1890

The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital (Leaf-Fall) 1889

In the last two years of his life Van Gogh painted in waves and swirls, 

applied so thickly that the marks stand above the canvas.

See the detail of painting.

Both Almond Blossom and Leaf Fall are live shots, but I didn't make them good shots because I was ashamed of myself on doing that. We have abuse the use of camera since the invention of phone camera...  In this gallery many people did not took their camera out, they turn to their heart and the sight. I heard gentle discussion in small group and lot of time static person stared in front of a painting. Van Gogh converses his spirit and thought with us through his passionate to colour and strokes.

I have visited Van Gogh Museum at Museum Plein in Amsterdam. It was a great experience and worth all your time of course money too! I have been so attracted by the paintings of Van Gogh since my first day in art history lesson in the college many years back when I was still an art student.

That time, it was just a glance of introduction from the projection on the wall to this post impressionist artist... in art history class one needs to know as many artists as possible every week, the class was to lead every art students/ artist or designer to be realised and appreciate the specialised style of each respective great artist from every significant period.
  
I am glad to see the magnificent real touch of Van Gogh. I spent the whole day like I always used to in galleries, but time was too short even a full day with Van Gogh's I need whole life to explore every details!

As I am lucky to work with my young little artists again back in Penang, I promise to give a better introduction of Vincent's life and life as a painter back in a century.

Here, we have done the first lesson, please let me have the pleasure to present the first observation work of young children to great artist work - The Starry Night, collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York.

To be continue in next post with children in my art lesson discovering Starry Night.

Rocks big and small... 大石头，小石头

Rocks big and rocks small they chitchat chitcha chika chika chichi chacha...

Earthquake and Baskin Robbin - One Year anniversary now...

The first intense quake (G 7.8 m) hit Nepal on the 25th of April 2015,
time was around 12.30pm Nepali time.
I was there, Boudha.
Praying to God for help and safe down under a chair in the lobby with a little boy...

I screamed and yelled with not even a question but many question marks ????
WHY? WHAT? What had happened?

Huhh... so lucky...??!!
Never come across an earthquake before... (I can't believed that still until today...)

Very early and very peaceful morning in Bhaktapur (24 April 2015)

Women and men work as usual.

I met this young lawyer whose boyfriend took our picture.

I bought tea and breakfast from this family at the street

No one got right in reading the sign of nature!

On the 25th, sun rises early as usual on 5.00 a.m I waked up as early as sun and browsed the town that I missed due to lost my way and unable to find a reasonable shelter. I met with who ever that I need to meet in life and left Bhaktapur for Boudha.

Turning the wheel couldn't help in turn away the earthquake...

We waited and over night in the field of a school after the quake.
Many more quakes after the first one...

On the 26th, Baskin Robbin announced free ice-creams for everyone... Hooray !!!

Another night sleep with shoes on just in case I need to run for life at the mid night...

We left Baskin Robbin for life at 1.30 p.m. Nepali time, another scary earth shaking. In front of me I saw the school building  swinging and wobbling...

An ice-cream break in the middle of an Earthquake, say cheese...!!

 I decided to take photographs for everyone who got a free Baskin Robbin!
The shop owner understand that after all all ice-cream will turn to water if she not offer to passer by
as power and water supply cut off right after the first quake...

Another old background image

Another old wallpaper.
 Old watch, old bracelet with old keys for locks of my backpack but they are all gone...

OLD background image of my blog

This gonna be a history... It was a history.
An illustration I did on the wall in a very big house half way to a small hill.
I lived in its smallest room.
Many many memories lived there too...

an illustration named Horse flower meaning Dandelion in Dutch (paardenhorze)

24 hours illustrating.

One of the 24 pages of my drawing, when I attending the 24 hours comics day at Balai Seni Visual Negara.

I missed a flight.

How many of you misses a flight before?
I missed my flight again.
This is my second time to miss a flight.
Who has the luxurious opportunity to chase and run after a flight like I do...
Speechless.