Wallpaper for my mobile phone

Interestingly, I extracted some of my painting and created a personalised wallpaper for my iPhone, and they all look nicer than the paintings itself. What a motivation to better my painting as I moved on to like Chinese Ink Painting Here are some variations of the wallpapers.

Back to basic

Last night, after a business trip to Kuala Lumpur, reached home and having the urge to start painting at 10pm. While deciding what to draw, upon laying out the table, I decided to revise how to draw lotus and also to go back to basic and paint bamboo, one of the 4 gentlemen in Chinese Painting.

The mood was right, and here's what came out of last night painting.

昨晚，出差到吉隆坡回来后，在晚上回到家，十点左右有开始画画的冲动。于是决定练习画中国画中四君子之一，竹子。奠定后，我也决定练习如何绘制荷花。在轻松的心情下，我完成了五幅画，以下就是昨晚画出来。

Having accomplished these paintings, I felt that the time is well spent in the polishing on my brush skills, catching up an 'almost' lost passion of mine, that is to be able to paint!

Following that I had a good sleep knowing that I can now spend a little more time to catch up my passion to paint.

在完成这些画后，我觉得把时间花在练习我的绘画技巧是很实用，对一个“几乎”失去了对绘画的热情，让我现在重新点燃画画的热情！

现在我可以有一个良好的睡眠，我知道，我也可多花一点时间赶上我作画的爱好。

Spontaneous painting of Meihua

Spontaneously 2 nights ago, I started to painting and the following painting came around. This seems to be one of my best art piece that I felt that it is pretty. I cropped it and now it is a wallpaper on my iPhone. A beautiful original piece of painting.

Indeed, a lighter mood and inspiration does affect the painting as it can reflect directly the liveliness and the brilliant within the painting. Maybe that is the reason why even renowned artist may not be able to re-produce their own art piece. 

Learning from this, maybe as a person, if we can all stay in a light mood, we can all interact and understand each other better. I still like to focusing aspect in all my paintings sessions.

Hope you do like this piece of art piece that I personally love!

前晚，我很随意的绘画，在一个轻松的心情和灵感的影响下，完成了这似乎是我最好的艺术作品之一。现在它已是我的iPhone的一面壁纸。一个美丽的原作。

这幅画直接反映的活力和颜色的灿烂。也许这就是连著名艺术家也无法重新制作他们自己的艺术作品的关键理由。

也许当作为一个人生哲学，如果我们都可以保留在一个轻松的心情，我们都可以更好地相互理解并互动。

希望你喜欢做这件艺术作品！

To draw or not to draw?

Nowadays, I will constantly feel the urge to lay out my drawing table and start painting whenever I have the time at home, spending lesser time watching TV although still very essential that we have our meals together as a family. A family tradition that I had uphold and told my kids that whenever they are free, we are to have dinner together. Whether my son gets home early from school, daughters coming home at different timings from work. we will wait for my wife to whip up a sumptuous dinner and eat altogether with my parents,  so we can all spend quality time and to relate to each other our ongoing activities

Yes indeed, I do find myself allotting more time to practise my painting, along the way, researching the structures of the flowers that I will draw, some favourites such as Peony, Narcissus and Plum Blossom.

It is interesting to know that Plum Blossom starts to flower in cold-winter, typically around January until late February. There are numerous species and colours, include, white, pink and red. Interesting the leaves will only unfold when the petals start to fall, and follow with fruits (梅子). One may wonders if there are differences between Plum Blossom and Cherry Blossom (Sakura) as they look the same. based on what I can find from the website, there are fundamental differences:

• Plum - petals more oval, flowers on short-stalked , with one or two at each bud.
• Cherry - petals more rounded, mostly notched, flowers on longer-stalked, and several in a cluster from each bud.

The Plum Blossom trees can grow for a long time, ancient trees can be found throughout China. In my earlier blogs, I had already mentioned about the structures of Plum Blossom, and over the last weekend and yesterday, I managed to paint the following 3 pieces of paintings.

现在，每当我有在家的时，我会不断感受到要摊开我的绘图桌的冲动，开始绘画，我现在也花较少的时间看电视，

但我有一个家庭的传统，就是作为一个家庭在一起吃饭，依然非常重要的。 我很坚持并告诉我的孩子们，每当他们有空时，我们要一起吃晚饭。无论是我的儿子提早放学回家，女儿们在不同的时刻回家。我们会等待我的妻子煮了一顿丰盛的晚餐，和我的父母一起吃。同时可以共度美好时光，也能够参与和相互关联正在进行的活动。

的确，我发现自己已支配更多的时间来练习画画，如梅花，牡丹和水仙。

梅花通常在寒冷的冬季开始开花，通常在一月左右，直到2月下旬。有无数种颜色，包括白，粉红和曙红色。有趣的是叶子会在花瓣开始脱落时展开，并结果（梅子）。

梅花和樱花之间的差异很微小，虽然他们看起来是一样的结构，但有着根本的差异：

• 梅花 - 花瓣椭圆,花矮杆
• 樱桃 - 花瓣更加圆润，大多缺口,花长杆

梅花树可以活很长一段时间，古老的树木，可以在整个中国发现。在我以前的博客中，我提到梅花的结构，在上周末和昨天，我就画了以下三幅画梅花图。

A rose that looks like a rose...

After a few more practises, I managed to get my paintings of roses to start looking like roses as follows:

经过几次实践，我画的玫瑰开始像样了，也达到像玫瑰花形如下：

Getting the hang of Chinese brush painting, I realised that during the painting process, I was able to focus on the single subject, attempting to do a nice painting. There are indeed some therapuetic benefits, definitely not allowing our monkey minds to drift.

I heard of friends saying that getting to love Chinese painting, it may enhance one's inner character and may become more patient too, hmmm, I shall look forward to be at peace with myself, and find more patience to get by with future artistic life.

渐入画中国画的佳境时，我意识到，在绘画过程中，我能够专注于单一的主题，试图完成一个幅漂亮的画。有让心灵集中的效益，绝不能允许我们的意识漂移。

我的朋友曾经说过，如喜欢上绘中国画，它可以提升一个人的内在性格，并可能会变得更有耐心，嗯，我期待着自己能够找到更多的耐心，以内心的平静，来享受自己未来丰富艺术的生活。

Drawing roses, a flower that is very much favoured in arts.

玫瑰在艺术领域被倾慕，在绘画，插图和建筑结构时经常出现。玫瑰是漂亮的观赏花卉，许多品种提供了几乎所有的颜色，粉红色，红色，白色，淡紫色，黄色和其他鲜艳颜色。

老师演示画这幅画的时候，很能展现颜色和色调自然的形成深浅度在纸的纤维里。当我试图绘制的玫瑰，根本达不到我的老师所能够产生的。这里有一些初步的失误。

Roses are favoured in arts, appears in paintings , illustration and at time on architectural structures. Roses are pretty ornamental flowers, with many species offering almost every colours, pink, red, white, lilac, yellow and many others.

The painting when demonstrated by teacher, was very enchanting to see the colours and shades forming naturally into the paper fibre. When I tried drawing roses, nothing was close to what my teacher was able to produce. Here are some initial blunders.

他们看起来不像玫瑰。我尝试了用更多的时间和练习了和费掉许多宣纸，至少有了一些改进如下：

None of them look like rose. Tried a few more time and many dispensed rice paper, at least some improvement as follows:

经过多次实践，现在至少我可以控制颜色深度的效果，现在稍为能分辨得到正确的形状和花瓣。

After  more practises, at least I can control the smirching of the colour to produce some shades and depths of colours, now only to get the shape and petals correctly.

以下是一幅比较好的一幅玫瑰画：

One of the best rose painting after many practises as follows:

Well, getting one out of three roses pretty is definitely a good achievement!

朝氣勃勃的牡丹 Engergetic Peony

As I continue to muster my skills to draw Peony, with the flower taking shape with the right depth of shades, I tried to vary the leaves imagining the gust of upward wind, signifying the morning energies that the flower is accumulating in the morning, or depicting a scene after a heavy rainfall, where you will see all the leaves droop downward as they were beaten by the continuous rain drop.

当我继续鍛煉我画牡丹的技朮，我画的花，形状和顔色的深度也许可过关，我试图畫不同的树叶的動態，如叶子向上，象征着牡丹花在早晨朝氣勃勃。和想像一阵大风，花逆风而叶随着风飘，或描绘一场大雨后的场景，因被连续的雨滴打，看到树叶下垂向下的景色。

This painting reflects an energetic flower receiving the new day.

这幅画反映了一个充满活力的花，期待接受新的一天的朝氣。

Imagine the fluttering of the leaves when a gust of wind blows with the flowers standing strong against the wind direction.

想象一下，当一阵风吹来，雍容华贵的牡丹花逆著风向而立，树叶順著风向飘动。

After a heavy downpour, the flowers still bloom as elegantly, with the new bud blossoming, while the leaves are seen to be recovering and lifting up to see the sunlight again.

一场倾盆大雨之后，被誉为国色天香的牡丹花依然五彩缤纷​​，新芽绽放，而树叶下垂，乍看是正在恢复和提升，向往再次接觸到阳光。

Drawing Plum Blossom 梅花

学习如何畫梅花，首先要了解植物的结构，基本上樹幹强大和坚固像'龙'，分叉，树枝或树干是僵硬和尖峰的雄姿，而每朵花有五个花瓣，以正面，側面，向上，向下，完全隐藏或部分隐藏的姿態。和通过每个花托來突出每一朵花的嬌媚，雄蕊能清楚地反映了花的方向。

当一个人能够正确掌握笔画時，一幅美麗的梅花就能完整表達在畫里了。

当我回顾以上说明如何绘制，我能肯定的是，说比劃起来容易多了......尽管如此，我在实践中的完成以下一些作品。在序列的第一个為早期版本。我很高兴，在前进的道路上有點進步。謹請雅賞！

Learning how to draw Plum Blossoms is firstly to understand the structure of the plant, which essentially entails that the trunks are strong and sturdy like 'dragon', the branches or twigs are stiff and spike like metal rods, while the each flower has 5 petals, in grouping of front-facing, profile-facing, fully hidden or partially hidden. By highlighting each flower receptacle will enhance dimension of every flower, and the drawing of the stamen will clearly reflect the facing of the flower when one can properly master the strokes.

As I recap to illustrate how to draw, it is definitely easier said than doing it...Nonetheless, I managed to practise some in the following sequences with the first one being the earlier version. I am happy that I managed to squeezed in some improvement along the way. Enjoy!

水仙花淡雅如仙子飘逸 梅花霜前傲然玉之立  

 This was a very nice comment left on my facebook posting when I posted the painting of mine as above sometime back. Illustrating that Narcissus sway freely like a fairy, with the Plum blossom stoically standing strong.

Narcissus is a seasonal flower that bloom only in Spring. together with Plum Blossom (梅花），they are known to be the flowers ushering in the Spring season (迎春）。It usually symbolising the start of Chinese New Year.

To draw the details of Narcissus flowers,  patience and focus are needed to outline every single petal of the flower, buds, heart and the leaves outline, mainly stoically straight and upright reflecting the strength of the flower. 

I managed to complete these few paintings as above and among them, ended with a piece of 'masterpiece' that I like best, which I will call "Narcissus garden'

Narcissus Garden

水仙园

我很快就爱上了水仙花和欣赏他的能量由内平缓洋溢。纯白色的花，想象著它盛开時所发出的芬芳。

畫水仙時，一直讓我很開心，興奮，期望，有一种可以感到滿足的感覺，我以积极和期待的情绪完成了以上的画图。

Immediately I fell in love with these flowers and appreciate the gentle flow of the energies exuberating from within. The purity of the white flower, and to imagine the fragrant that it emits at full bloom. 

Drawing the Narcissus have been a great pleasure for me, hopefully, one can sense the focused, positive mood spent in the drawings of the above paintings.

Morning glory flower, commonly found burst of morning energies

记的在我年轻住在甘榜的时候，在广阔的鄉村里開滿了色彩丰富的牵牛花，在清晨盛开的花，多为紫和粉红色，花瓣和叶子上的露珠水滴，反射阳光時产生的光彩，在阳光下绽放著生命的活力。到了黃昏，花瓣明显的卷曲，褪色，但太阳升起的时候，牵牛花再次在新的一天绽放。展顯了生命的力量！

在林祿在老師的教導和牵牛花靈感，我完成了以下的畵。

Remembering the morning glory, in my younger days living in the kampong where there are abundant of these flowers growing in the vast openness. The flowers are in full bloom in the early morning to take in the sunlight, mostly purple and pink. Alongside one will get to enjoy the dew droplets on the flower petals and leaves, at time reflecting the sunlight to produce sparkles. The flower will fade with the petals visibly curling and to bloom again when the sun rises again in the new day.

With this as inspiration when the teacher taught us how to draw these flowers, I managed to come up with the following few paintings:

我的一个朋友喜欢並且问我要上則的画.由於我目前正在籌備重建老挝的一所小学，协助重建学校设施,于是向他募捐善款。我希望这些孩子們有一天也可以得到充分绽放。

One of my friends loved the painting above, and ask me for it! In return I asked that he donates towards my Laos school project (a project that I started to embark on to assist in the rebuilding of a school facilities to allow the children Meung Feung Village in Laos, to have a new facility for their schooling needs). hoping that these children can also get into full blooms someday.

This is one of my favourite painting of morning glory using black ink to draw the leaves. bringing the flowers into full contrast in the painting.

牵牛花确实带回旧甘榜日子的回忆。高兴的是，我現在能以寫意中國画來表達他的美。

Morning glory indeed brings back memories of the old kampong days. Happy that I am able to paint them.