“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”
Tag: landscapepainting
Reflective Journal Week 43, 19 July – 25 July 2020
Day 1 A typical day of Ce Chen, filled with random ideas and senseless thoughts. Day 2 Sea Wind to St Ives As I stated in yesterday’s video… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 43, 19 July – 25 July 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 41, 5 July – 11 July 2020
Irrelevant but worth talking about:My series of doodles was requested to engage in mental recovery therapy service of Shaoxing’s No.7 Hospital. I am glad that my work… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 41, 5 July – 11 July 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 36, 31 May – 6 June 2020
Week 36 began with continuous experiments of salting natural objects. The dryness of the air and early summer temperature arranged a suitable environment for drying flowers. Also,… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 36, 31 May – 6 June 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 32, 3 May – 9 May 2020
Except “a depressing, endless rain that easily can ruin your vacation and blur everything into each other”, what else natural element could stand for the distinctiveness of… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 32, 3 May – 9 May 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 31, 26 Apr – 2 May 2020
It Rains in Mount’s Bay Today is a series of watercolour painting about heavy foggy rain on various perspective points from Newlyn to Marazion. It emphasis the… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 31, 26 Apr – 2 May 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 29, 12 Apr – 18 Apr 2020
Random thought: How are you going to depict Cornish landscape? The phase historians use to talk about indigenous painters like Alfred Wallis and Peter Lanyon is always… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 29, 12 Apr – 18 Apr 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 27, 29 Mar – 4 Apr 2020
Sunset Safari above St Ives This watercolour painting is based on my previous experience in west Cornwall. It is a development on my understanding of Peter Lanyon’s… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 27, 29 Mar – 4 Apr 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 26, 22 Mar – 28 Mar 2020
I took an experimental step in this week’s physical practice. I destroy one of the previous work after recognising “outsider’s perspective” may have a substantial impact on… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 26, 22 Mar – 28 Mar 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 23, 1 Mar – 7 Mar 2020
Some thoughts from 2nd Feb’s seminar given by Mr Mark Fairninton were finally organised. Subjective Manipulation Subjective Manipulation is the process of over-lay the painkter’s own ideas/understanding/emotional… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 23, 1 Mar – 7 Mar 2020”
Reflective Journal Week 17, 19 Jan – 25 Jan 2020
A briefed outline of a research direction has been shaped during this week. I understand a lot of work is required to narrow it down so I… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 17, 19 Jan – 25 Jan 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 13, 22 Dec – 28 Dec 2019
In Reflective Journal Week 2, I wrote about the Chinese people’s obsession with the ownership of a piece of land. “I guess my nostalgia feeling regarding the… Read more “Reflective Journal Week 13, 22 Dec – 28 Dec 2019”
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”
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.”
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.”
25 Pieces of Romanticism, the Inspiration of Desperation Archive, Nov 2016.
The last project of the first semester of level 6. It symbolised the idea of old-school/classical style has occupied a considerable part of my work. Sometimes I… Read more “25 Pieces of Romanticism, the Inspiration of Desperation Archive, Nov 2016.”
Level 5 Option, Go Wild, April 2016.
I have to say, Level 5 Option class, which is full about life drawing and field trip, has been the most interesting course I have ever experienced.… Read more “Level 5 Option, Go Wild, April 2016.”
Development of Single-Colour Watercolour after Cornwall, March 2016.
After got back from Cornwall, I found watercolour is suitable for me to sketch a scene with proper construct of light contrast, volume and space. Therefore a… Read more “Development of Single-Colour Watercolour after Cornwall, March 2016.”
The Beginning of Everything, Feb 2016.
At the evening of a cold winter night in Feb 2016, the radiator in the old studio apartment I rent refused to be functioning properly, again. It… Read more “The Beginning of Everything, Feb 2016.”
