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Photo Album
I’ve uploaded some pictures. Feel free to take a look: photo gallery
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A dose of happiness
My son loves to draw cars. I keep all the drawings, they make my heart bloom with happiness.
left: a front view of mercedes | right: a tractor
left: lightning mcqueen (he confused 9 with 6) | right: him riding a jeep
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Emergency – Illustration Friday
Emergency | watercolor/prismacolorThe theme is ‘Emergency’ this week at IF. Dixie fell off the tree, Norah panicked but managed to call the emergency number her mama provided her.
Having a list of emergency phone numbers by the phone is important four our children, so please make a time to write down the list. For fellow Malaysians, below is a list of important emergency numbers:
Police/Ambulance 999 Civil Defense 991 Fire & Rescue 994 To Call from any hand phones 112 Gas Emergency 995 For more important numbers, you can print out MyCen’s Handy Phone Directory. You can download my version of contact sheet if you want: Emergency Contact Sheet.
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More arts by the kids
While I am it (browsing old archives), I found another artworks done by my niece and nephews. The theme was ‘Cuti-Cuti Malaysia’.
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Personalised wrappers
I taught my niece and nephews on how to do their own wrappers back in 2005 and photographed the process. I recently found these photos while browsing through my old archives.
A. Daniel making a wrapper for Yassin
B. Mikhail creating a ‘pelikat’ pattern
C. Djohan, blowing colors with straw
D. Wanda doing the leaf-stamping technique.They enjoyed every moment of it and it was fun!
Material: white mahjong paper, color markers, crayons, brushes, acrylic colors (preferably acrylic because it is permanent when dry), fresh leaves or anything you can think of that creates nice pattern (ie. starfruit, flower, etc).
The how-to is pretty much up to your own creatitivity actually but here are simple steps on how to go about it:
For picture A, Daniel drew circles with white crayon before painting acryclic colors all over the paper. (The effect of the white crayon is more visible if the paper was fully colored.)He personalised it by writing yassin’s name–the wrapper was intended for Yassin.
For picture B, Mikhail painted geometry lines and filled in the boxes with two different colors alternatively.
For picture C, Djohan was using the straw-blowing technique and wrote down the occasion and name in between the patterns.
For picture D, Wanda was using leaves to create patterns for her wrapper. She used hibiscus and mango leaves.
I advised on all the color combinations and provided them the ribbons. This project is great to teach your children about making their own crafts. The techniques can be applied for making greeting cards and tags as well. Try this with your children sometimes, you’ll be amazed of the result!
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If I were a millionaire
It was a pleasure doing this because the list has been at the back of my head for such a long time. So, how are you going to spend your one million dollars?
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Postcards exchange
I promised to exchange postcards with 3 fellow artists: Eugeniagina, Zarifi and Laura Taylor Mark and today I’ve got the time to make them! I will post them out first thing tomorrow morning!
Postcards I’ve collected so far are “The pirate and the mermaid” by Mike R. Baker and “To be free I need the sea” by Laurel Gaylord.