“I want my audiences to achieve a mutual understanding by finding their common appreciation to a landscape or via the awe to nature.” The feedback of the… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 46, 9 Aug – 15 Aug 2020”
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Reflective Journal Week 20, 9 Feb – 15 Feb 2020
I was genuinely intrigued by the idea of “idealised landscape” among the Hudson River School and its contemporaneous art movements like Barbizon School, Newlyn School, etc. Noticing… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 20, 9 Feb – 15 Feb 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 15, 5 Jan – 11 Jan 2020
Painting process finished on this week precisely. These works were scanned and edited to recover its original colour on Photoshop, then uploaded to the InDesign file. I… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 15, 5 Jan – 11 Jan 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 14, 29 Dec – 4 Jan 2020
I cannot tell whether it was good or not. I gave up the “social” in the three S concept and selected to focus on “study” and “sleep”.… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 14, 29 Dec – 4 Jan 2020”
From Zuheors to Cuckmere, Jan 2020
From Zuheros to Cuckmere was produced as the outcome of the first unit of my study in Camberwell College of Art. The project consists of two parts:… Read more “From Zuheors to Cuckmere, Jan 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 11, 8 Dec – 14 Dec 2019
The pop-up show was fine. I missed the opening talk and the toast; I was busy running down block A, consulting tutors of printmaking, graphic design and… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 11, 8 Dec – 14 Dec 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 9, 24 Nov – 30 Nov 2019
Week 9, and very likely the following week will reduce my attendance to an extremely low result. A pop-up show will be arranged in two weeks, and… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 9, 24 Nov – 30 Nov 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 8, 17 Nov – 23 Nov 2019
A fascinating opportunity was given to visit Mark Fairnington’s workspace in East London. His work and statements regarding his preference of a realistic painting style as partly… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 8, 17 Nov – 23 Nov 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 7, 10 Nov – 16 Nov 2019
The week started with producing a basic preparation if the human figure will be added into the project. The character design finished quickly, and the scene in the background was chosen and sketched. I specifically looked into works of Steve Hanks for gorgeous, naturally composited female figures. Works of Jacob Schikaneder and Abbott Fuller Graves […]
Reflective Journal Week 6, 3 Nov – 9 Nov 2019
After a week and a half, the second individual work of the project was finished. I further developed the washing technique on my watercolour to create a… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 6, 3 Nov – 9 Nov 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 5, 27 Oct – 2 Nov
The last weekend was spent on pushing the deadline of proposal submission. I have to admit that I do miss stay up all night studying. Can be… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 5, 27 Oct – 2 Nov”
Reflective Journal Week 4, 20 Oct – 26 Oct 2019
One of the major outcomes of the fourth week was the essential supports of the determination of producing a book. I have decided to demonstrate the distinctiveness of the two regions through comparison. The specific method would be arranging them in a particular order. As I have decided it will be a nonlinear sequence, I […]
Reflective Journal Week 3, 13 Oct – 19 Oct 2019
The first group crit revealed severe problems. After installing works on the wall, on the first glaze, they looked beautiful; however, any closer look at the presentation… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 3, 13 Oct – 19 Oct 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 2, 6 Oct – 12 Oct, 2019
Developments envisaged in the previous week started the second week in Camberwell. While working on new pieces with a stable efficiency, I can’t help to notice there… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 2, 6 Oct – 12 Oct, 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 1, 29 Sept – 5 Oct, 2019
Reflective Journal Week 1, 29 Sept – 5 Oct, 2019 Although the very first project has not been briefed yet, there is no reason to pause producing… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 1, 29 Sept – 5 Oct, 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 0, 22 Sept – 28 Sept, 2019
After collecting a small, however sufficient amount of resource which allows initiating further experiment, I decided that the aim of the second week would be settling down… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 0, 22 Sept – 28 Sept, 2019”
Reflective Journal Week 00, 15 Sept – 21 Sept, 2019
Reflective Journal Week 00, 15 Sept – 21 Sept, 2019 In the spirit of learning, I initiated journalising on the day I arrived in London. Please be… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 00, 15 Sept – 21 Sept, 2019”
Tootings before Autumn, Sept 2019
After receiving the offer from Camberwell College of Art in Feb, I should have entered a period of stable work-producing and self-learning. What I did not foresee… Read more “Tootings before Autumn, Sept 2019”
Olives of Córdoba, Jan 2019.
Olives of Córdoba is a project consists of eight pieces of watercolour paintings. Judging from painting technique side, it is an experiment whether the style project Zhivago… Read more “Olives of Córdoba, Jan 2019.”
Holy Site 01: An Old Grocery Store, Dec 2018.
The first piece of holy site series has painted the scene of an old grocery store in memory of an old convenient shop of my hometown.… Read more “Holy Site 01: An Old Grocery Store, Dec 2018.”
Spine of A Girl Bending Over and Having Sex, Anthor Contemporary Art Practice, Dec 2018.
The project was inspired by a phenomenon happened on a Chinese social network platform. A user has questioned a drawing about a female figure’s pose in a… Read more “Spine of A Girl Bending Over and Having Sex, Anthor Contemporary Art Practice, Dec 2018.”
Burning of Fields, Colour of Rocks, Nov 2018.
In some rural areas of China, it is very common for farmers to burn plantation waste like rice straws after harvesting crops. They use ash afterwards to… Read more “Burning of Fields, Colour of Rocks, Nov 2018.”
Installation & Acrylic: New Blood, Nov 2018.
The Writting ‘Kids should have been running on these magnificant fields that bred generations of our ancestors. Since we arrived here 800 years before, wars, disasters,… Read more “Installation & Acrylic: New Blood, Nov 2018.”
Mercury Dice, A Spray in Chinese Equality Movements, Oct 2018.
Yes, I do sometimes produce work reflect politics. Mercury Dice was one of my best. It was viciously reported on a Chinese media platform similar to Tumblr.… Read more “Mercury Dice, A Spray in Chinese Equality Movements, Oct 2018.”
Los Fragmentos del Albaicín, Two Sides of Dreams, Sept 2018.
A joyful experience is unavoidably going to fade. Your memories started being blurred, details are gone, like falling rain through a sewer. Soon, scenes you have gone… Read more “Los Fragmentos del Albaicín, Two Sides of Dreams, Sept 2018.”
Los Fragmentos del Albaicín Part 2, Sept 2018.
Initially, there will be no change of colour in the project, but this plan became expired on the third day of the first stage of Los Fragmentos… Read more “Los Fragmentos del Albaicín Part 2, Sept 2018.”
Los Fragmentos del Albaicín Part 1, Sept 2018.
Los Fragmentos del Albaicín is a project that I have been planning since the major success of 25 Pieces of Romanticism. The original idea was to reproduce… Read more “Los Fragmentos del Albaicín Part 1, Sept 2018.”
Really Bad Logic for Running Child Art Education Institution which Features Chinese Value, Sept 2018.
Consider this as a further complaint. As I complained in an earlier blog about child art education, I feel that cannot explain the bad logic in this… Read more “Really Bad Logic for Running Child Art Education Institution which Features Chinese Value, Sept 2018.”
Visual Diaries about Córdoba And The Way to Granada, Aug 2018.
The exhibion was finished. The town mayor gifted me several souvenirs and a certificate of appreciation. I have to point it out now that, I have only… Read more “Visual Diaries about Córdoba And The Way to Granada, Aug 2018.”
Drawing with Dots: Una Mirada A Andalucía, July 2018.
According to the date that recorded in the photo data of the first image, I started this pen dot sketch on 31st May. The process has lasted… Read more “Drawing with Dots: Una Mirada A Andalucía, July 2018.”
El Reino Entre Olivares, The Self-made Colour I Mentional So Much About, July 2018.
Finally comes to the work that applied the paint I talked about so much. The first stage of this piece, right after a two-days effort of drawing… Read more “El Reino Entre Olivares, The Self-made Colour I Mentional So Much About, July 2018.”
Six Tiny Pieces of Oil Paintings, and Two Watercolours for the Exhibition, June 2018.
Two watercolour paintings for decorative purpose were creadted. Sometimes I relatively enjoy creating works that only for recording the beauty of natural, or an ordinary scenerio, instead… Read more “Six Tiny Pieces of Oil Paintings, and Two Watercolours for the Exhibition, June 2018.”
De Stijl 93, A Vivid History Lesson, May 2018.
I received a commission of 10,000 RMB for a painting to decorate a wedding apartment. SO, here we go. Instead of immediately starting designing a complex composition,… Read more “De Stijl 93, A Vivid History Lesson, May 2018.”
Mañana de Las Luces, May 2018.
Here’s what I am most proud of in my landscape watercolour, Mañana de Las Luces. The painting successfully touched El Ayuntamiento de Zuheros, and they offered me… Read more “Mañana de Las Luces, May 2018.”
El Castillo de Zuheros, Apr 2018.
Remember the time I said that Zuheros might invite me to a personal exhibition? I actually got the invitation after showing the half-finished Mañana de Las Luces,… Read more “El Castillo de Zuheros, Apr 2018.”
Westerminster in Fog, Mar 2018
As usually, some materials had been added to the ink I used to make it thicker enough to express the strength of the building. Also it made… Read more “Westerminster in Fog, Mar 2018”
A Brief Complaint of Current Child Art Education in China, Mar 2018
How to cultivate the sensitiveness of children? Please answer this in your mind, and let me begin first. As I mentioned before, or if I did not… Read more “A Brief Complaint of Current Child Art Education in China, Mar 2018”
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