Watercolor experiment

Beautiful Sunday coloring.  One lesson I learned; coming up with color palette in advance. 

Coloring therapy completed.

I completed coloring the piece I draw for my project Thankful Basket. 

You can see the pen drawings of my first three pieces I posted before. 

I enjoyed the process, but I would use real paints next time. 

Thankful Basket#3

Pencil does smell good.

Finally grabbed pencil and drew. 

Coloring therapy- in progress.

So, I started coloring one of the works I've done for Thankful Basket project. 

I am still struggling with time and space issues, and I used color pencils coloring to keep things less complicated.  Turned out I didn't like the texture the pencils made on the papers, but it has been great to be in touch with colors.  I have to come up with a way to color on this not so good journal book though. Lesson learned. Always get good quality materials!!  

Thankful Basket #2

Summer vacation is over, and I am back to my normal schedule. Means much less time for myself.  I feel good I managed to work on this Thankful Basket project.  

I think I need some colors soon.  

Thankful Basket

 

 

I started a new little project named, Thankful Basket.  It is my gratitude journal, and I draw something dedicated to what I am grateful for.  It's been therapeutic, and also it is so helpful for drawing practice.  I'll post the work here, and I opened a new blog on Tumblr for the project. 

http://thankfulbasket.tumblr.com/

You can check out through hashtag #thankfulbasket on Twitter and Instagram as well.

Thank You, Dear.

I managed to create a Thank You card for my friend in London.  She sent me wonderful books for my son.   One of the books is the famous Goodnight Moon, and she told me that the pictures I shared online inspired her to ship those books for my son.  I used to make cards, photo albums, and funny little art objects for my friends.  It was my motivations and inspirations to make something.  I guess that is the biggest and strongest force for my creations.  It is fun and happy.  Thank you, my friend, for wonderful gifts and inspirations. 

Good Night Moon

I have been slowly working on a project.   I would like to share them once they are all done, but I couldn't stop myself from sharing a part of it.  I enjoy receiving some reactions from people! Receiving some compliments helps me so much when I struggle making more time for projects.

The first image is just a part of a piece I worked on.  I thought moon came out nice, and I added the line, GOOD NIGHT MOON, using Studio Design app on my phone. 
Do you like it?

Tokyo Urban Garden

It's done.  My brother asked me who is the creepy guy in the back.  He is the keeper of my favorite urban garden.  He lives in such a rundown house near the train tracks and decorates it with colorful flowers year-round.  I guess it's the beauty of city life. You easily find someone doing something interesting. 

Work In Progress: Tokyo Urban Garden

This piece is almost finished. Finally! I have been working on this since last year. And guess what! I don't like this piece!  I didn't like it anymore once I finished the first half of it, and it has been a painful process to tackle with my frustration with my skills and impatient personality.

Hey, but I am a mother now, and I should show a good example for my son.  I will finish it and think about how to continue developing this theme.  My inspiration is coming from living, again, in this neighborhood where I grew up.  Compared to my life in beautiful scenic California, this town looked so gray and dull when I came back.  I desperately tried to find beauty in this urban bed town, and all I got were the flowers and the colors some neighbors are displaying on their doorsteps.

Tokyo's famous street garden.

I think my idea is good, but I am having a hard time drawing what is in my imagination.  I am excited to keep working on this concept and how I can come up with better versions of it.

Inspiring start of 2014

My new year starts with many inspirations and new thoughts.   One of my new year resolutions is making more actions than spending time planning, thinking, and worrying. Oh, and whining and complaining in my head.

First thing first, I have been focusing on assisting my son who's in the first stage of figuring out about himself and the world.  So called Terrible Two:-) I used to be able to make some time for working out, drawing, or working on the computer.  I don't have that time anymore unless I wake up really early.  Now he demands me to take him to bed every night, so my precious night hours have been significantly reduced.  I fought about this issue so hard, but I decided to just focus on one thing at a time and set my priority on enjoying time with my son as much as possible.  I realized that this is the final year that I can spend all day long with my son.  So much to teach and give. 

Once I set my focus though, I have been feeling much inspired and creative.  I have so much new ideas for drawings now, and I enjoy planning on it whenever and wherever I can.  That lead me to finally start experimenting with gouache.  I love watercolor, but I enjoy the feel gouache creates as well.  Also about this blog, I would like to write more about myself instead of just presenting my works.  It would be a very slow process for awhile, but I think the important thing is making an action.  In a way, it is time for me to come out of the closet.  Show me, reveal me, and see how it goes.