The sea monster holding a dying fish

"The sea monster holding a dying fish"

(work in progress)

To be honest, the concept of this work has nothing to do with the environmental issue, it was simply a idea/imagination of mine. As my usual method of working with painting, I allow the idea comes to me without further deep thoughts, I'd like to keep my works light and simply, but at the same time it allows people to have the space of deeper thoughts.

As the method of my painting technique, I have challenge my usual style (landscape, rock), I allowed the paint bush to be more lose up in order to achieve the like of water wave, but at the same time, I kept my old colour techniques, in which it could be seeing in some of my older paintings.

Experienement and new media

Painting on fabric, acrylic, ink.

Cubist marks on skin.

Dennis Oppenheim has done a film which he pressed his figure nail onto skin. It happened to me by accident, I found this interesting mark which almost like abstract geometric shapes on my skin, and I took photo of it, and edited in photoshop in order to bring up the contrast of the mark.

Cubist study

This is my cubist painting study (in progress).

The lines within this work has transformed into geometric shapes, which was not my intension, but I will keep working on it and see what happens.

Study of Cubist painting

I have always been interested in Cubist practices, in my opinion, Cubist painting and drawing are technical, which I was drawn into the geometric shapes and the dark and light contrast. Cubist painting reviews a new way of seeing the object, shows the 3 dimension in a 2 dimension surface.

Red Chair

Oil on canvas

51 x 41 cm

Blues on the Porch

Oil on Canvas

2004

51 x 68 cm

These works are painted by D.M .Ross, who is known as a contemporary cubist. In his blog, he mentioned "With no formal art education or training I began painting as a method of releasing a creative urge. My influences are quite obviously the great Cubists - (Picasso, Braque, Gris etc.) but I enjoy a wide variety of work , including Cezanne , Bacon, Pollock, Audette,Gleeson ...too many to mention.

Some of my pieces can linger un-finished for years as I wait for the picture to reveal itself to me, and it is not unusual for them to be "modified" months after I believe they are finished. Other times paintings can be finished in a week."

The difference between his works and other traditional cubist works which I found, that he used many different range of colours in his practice, and his works are more recognizable to the object itself, in which after the cubism movement, cubists started working towards abstraction and dadaism.

The method of cubist painting has never been reviewed, cubists seem are finding their own way of expressing their practice. I have been researching, studying and practicing cubist painting. The drawing I have done which I could see a sense of cubism within, but it was not the correct way to express it, not as the method that explain in the articles or books about cubist painting. I started working on my first cubist painting, which I found it is a lot harder than my drawing practice, drawing has more control of what you creating, but painting is more lose, especially towards lines and shapes.

Cubism drawing study

After the study of Minimalism, I drawn to the shapes and I started studying the method of Cubism. Tom taught me in his study, he would draw a basic facial structure, and break it up with a few lines, then put in the shades in order to indicate the lines and the shapes.

I have done some practice, and I found that cubism drawing is a very slow process, which I found medicating. I decided to take it to the next level, start working on a painting with cubism style.

Minimalism study

I did some practice study on minimalism, well pretty much the concept of Minimalism, but I was drawn to the geometric shapes and over layering them into new shapes and texture.

These two pieces which I have named "drawing on two A4 size paper" and "two A4 size paper", are base on the idea of Minimalism and Conceptual art, "what you see is what it means" and art is an idea, and my idea is to play with two pieces of A4 size paper.

Sculpture in progress

New project for video art project

I was inspired after watch the video "sung" by Nina Yuen. She simply used everyday life as the object, and constructed this video piece with words, such as a sentence which start with "I'm sorry...".

I was keen to try it and use myself and my personal life as the subject matter, I started filming "Why", with the questions that I want to and would never get a chance to ask in my last failure relationship.

Video art work research

Sung, 2006

single channel color video, with sound

duration 7 minutes

LOMBARD-FREID PROJECTS

Artist - Nina Yuen

"DON BY NINA YUEN, 2006

10 minutes

"My work as a filmmaker engages with the production of false personal memories, and with stirring disagreements about the past in the accounts of my family and friends. I regard myself primarily as a passive artist; my work is created at the intersection of a recorded document and a lifestyle that I adopt. For the taping of each film, I live for at least a week in a constructed enviroment, with its own conventions governing ceremony, behavior, and dress."

Drawing the scenes

I found that drawing nudity and sex scenes are very disturbing, and I have to keep telling myself that this work is not about sexual issue, it is the concept of everyone, everything is fucking each other in this world, there are many issue in idea, and it could be very offensive. It doesn't feel like the right thing to do, but I have to keep exploring and developing my concept further, no matter what happens.

Contemporary Neo-expressionism painting

I have been looking at some Neo-expressionism painting, not by much of the deep down meaningful concept, but the balance within the image.

melayna simister

Research for my material collage painting.

I enjoy the aesthetic balance of this collage by Melayna Simister, it is a very "busy" collage painting, by layers of different colours and shapes of cardboard paper, which creates a image of texture, but well balanced. It has very strong sculptural aesthetic balance.