The journey of my 6 Lions and Kanok

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii..

Before I'm going to take a nap, let me let you know the situation of my "6 Lions and Ta Kanok Pleow". The pattern at the background is called "Ta Kanok Pleow", "Pleow" means fire. In Thai painting, there is not only a central focus. The painting usually requires you to look around all over the painting and "Ta Kanok Pleow" is normally used as background.

Thanks for Legionaries who have prayed for me yesterday. I survived YEAY!! actually around 4am I felt like I was coloring 'half-consciously' *duhh* Thank God the drawing didn't go wrong... hehehehe

Initially, there were only 5 lions

We can put dragon, squirrel, etc in between Kanok. But I don't dare to draw squirrel. I tried once and my lecturer said it looked like soft toy. Hahahaha

One of the portfolio. I am quite dissatisfied with this image. Something is still wrong with the proportion :( But I love the details. The 'triangular' thing arond the chest is called "krajang", basic shape in Thai painting. The 'flower' part in the middle of the neck is called "Dok Prajam Yam"

I added another lion coz I couldn't imagine if I had to draw the whole bottom-left side with kanok. Too confusing..

"Mommy Mommy" said baby Lion..

"Roar......."

It looks more complicated when I have not coloured the picture

games: spot the lion..and spot the dragon :P (there are 6 small dragons :P)

Started coloring this on Tue nite..

I didn't expect the gold and red blend well for my lions. I love the colors. Evi, my roommate, said looks like Chinese New Year. Hahahha

This was done on Wednesday

I was coloring from 10am-3pm till this point

This part was done after Legion meeting. Thai painting really trains your patience and perseverance. Personally I am  a type of person who is easily get bored. Even though my archi friend recommended me to color all black then all gold, I need to see progress so I color black and gold in one area before moving to another area. Btw, the baby lion's eye looked like "Stitch" in Lilo & Stitch. Don't you think so? :P

"Trada.........."

now all lions are colored :):) I use different red pen for the last two lions and I like the pen more than the previous pen. The pen that I used for the first 4 lions was too 'watery'

it hurts.. Yeah.. Apparently coloring from 10am to 7am hurts my finger. The last time my fingers were aching was when I played piano back in high school. At this point, I was awake but I felt so tired and my hand was aching (when I wrote previous post)

Fingers were Squeezed by pen...Lots of prayers were offered last nite. Hehehe. I remember Oli said, when I'm doing one lion, just imagine you offer up your sacrifice in drawing that to a particular person. Hehehehe.

Keep "jiayou"-ing myself at this point. I really wanted to finish it by 7am coz I had quiz at 8am

Thank God!!! The prayers really work. I finished it around 7am. :) Unfortunately, when I did this, I colored the gold marker over the black lines so you can't really see the details of the black lines inside the kanok. I tried to outline again after my class at 10am, but didn't have enough energy and dozed off till1pm. Hahaha..

Me and Florence, painting-buddy, roommate during fieldtrip in Bangkok.

Peeping through Kirril's drawing. Soooo intricate!!!

With our lecturer, Dr. Irving. Thanks for MAKING this module (yeah...we are the first batch !! )

Me and Drawing
I used to draw (in fact, a lot of my classmates either "used to" draw or "want to choose A (design/art) but parents said..." --> ended up doing what they're doing now.
My 'golden moment' of drawing was primary school. I used crayon and my mom sent me to a lot of competitions. I rarely won, hahaha, but I enjoyed drawing and coloring, especially making the gradation of color. I still have the small foldable desk that I used for drawing.

Somehow my drawing ability decreased in secondary school. Hahaha. We didn't use crayon anymore. They taught things like painting using Chinese ink, making logo ( I remember I draw 'CITY' with building around the block letters), and drawing and shading objects (eg you put bottle in front of boxes). In high school, I used canvas for the first time (well, now I realized it was the only time I used canvas). I painted Mount Merapi and I loved the result. Hehehe. Then after we were streamed to science stream, the arts lesson became perspective drawing lessons (you know..the architecture type of drawing: view from above, view from side, view from front). Nothing fun about it. It's just "something that you have to do".

I think now I'm very convinced that I cannot draw realistic figure. Hahahaha. I draw pattern better than human. I can see pattern's proportion and balance better than human. Actually when I drew lion for portfolio, I was quite surprised that the proportion was ok :) Coz the last time I drew animal was in primary school. Hahahaha.

So that's the journey of "6 Lions and Kanok". I dunno when I will draw again, but thank God for bringing me back to my childhood moment through drawing. :):) Let me post my friend's video on our fieldtrip to Bangkok. My friend (also my lecturer's friend) did her master's in NUS and she's a reporter. Hehehe

When we went to Bangkok, we had not learned about human proportion. That's why I drew the details first (which is wrong. :P) but It was such a nice feeling to sit in front of mural and draw. Hahahaha.

Really really Thank God for the learning experience. :):)