Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 12:53PM I just got these in the mail. It is really nice to see the images of my art printed on the pages of a quality publication! It sure beats seeing them on the computer screen.
Monday, September 14, 2020 at 10:30PM I was featured in Hyperrealism Magazine Vol. 12. It has images of my 5 drawings and my head shot and my interview. I was impressed by the really good questions they asked me in the interview. And they did not make any edits to what I said and put up all my answers just as I gave them, which I appreciated. The pictures are big, and the layout is nice, image reproduction quality is excellent (as far as I can tell in the digital version). I am very happy with what they did,
Friday, August 21, 2020 at 05:39AM Well, this is truly unexpected and exciting. I got an email from Beautiful Bizarre Magazine today and they told me my entry "Vanitas 11" to their 2020 Art Prize competition was accepted as one of the finalists. There are 4 categories in this competition: Sculpture, Digital Art, Photography, and Traditional Art. I am in the Traditional Art category. They selected 25 finalists in each category from god knows how many entries, so this was a really stiff competition and being on the shortlist of top 100 is a really big deal! The chance of me winning one of the top prizes would be pretty slim, but there is a people's awards category. The voting starts on 9/24, maybe I should tell all my friends to vote for me (keep dreaming).
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 09:09PM Someone asked me about the design of my latest drawing Vanitas 23. So I worked on this analysis to explain how I designed this piece. My idea was to explore circular pattern repetition and 2:3 ratio sub-divisions a la Alphonse Mucha. This type of design sometimes comes as a combination of a happy accident and more intentional adjustment/manipulation. The model's pose was pretty much how it was at the photo shoot. I picked the best image out of many. Then I added most of the bubbles by strategically placing them so that they would collectively form circular patterns along with the lines of her dress. I extended the bottom of the dress in the back and changed the angle of her leg at the bottom right, so that her whole body would form a more dynamic triangle shape. Overall I am very pleased with the result.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 02:17PM I finally finished this piece after working on and off for nearly 3 months. I'm pretty happy about the way it came out. The youtube link is here.
