Far Away.

Thought I was dead? Nooo :D
Since it's the year of the dragon, I decided to draw a dragon haha.
And it's also my first time drawing an ACTUAL background...or landscape I should say orz.
(Probably why I took a whole month and now it's February...)

School.

I haven't updated in a while because...well, I don't really have much to show haha.
I was too busy with school and work so I'll post some of it.

This was my first (or second) assignment for both painting and watercolor class. For painting class, we did the typical grayscale swatches. The bar on the right is my first attempt, the left is a my second which came out much better. The one of the right was my watercolor assignment, which was to copy an old master's painting. I decided to do one of Bouguereau's piece (fuck I can never spell his name). Had a fun time doing that one.

This was just in-class painting session. The first week was drawing with burnt umber and then wiping the highlights, second was using a mix of burnt sienna, french ultramarine, and permalba white  (I used titanium white)  to create a limited but colored portrait. Then the following week we used Zorn palette which is the 4 colors Anders Zorn used (ivory black, white, cadmium red, and yellow ochre). A lot of what we do in this painting class is similar to what I've learned at the Art Students League but more basic and breaking down the steps. The top painting is painted with the Zorn palette, kind of wish I have another 10 min to work on it (at least paint over the brown under-painting seriously lol).

Okay now that I talked about school stuff, here's a downside of it.

LEGEND: Key to SUBKARU Exhibit

I am part of a Museum Exhibit in North Salem NY. 
It would be awesome if you can make it to the opening reception.


The Hammond Museum 
http://www.hammondmuseum.org/
28 Deveau Rd.
North Salem, NY 10560
(914) 669-5033


The Opening Reception is going to be:
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
1pm-3pm




The exhibit will be through:
September 14th - November 19th 2011 


Participating Artists:
Nasa Ikeda*
Noa Ikeda*
Mana Ikeda*
Raymund Anlocotan
Peter Chan
Grace Fong
Melinda Guo
Juri Hayasaka
Dan Howard
Midori Maejima
Jay Zhou


* = Show curators


Hours: Wednesday ~ Saturday From 12PM~4PM
Admission to the Museum, Garden and Cafe is free with membership
or: $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, children under 12 are free


https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=278918995465618