Billiard I

It caught me the moment I opened my Safari this morning.
Beijing-based Yaoband

It was the moment when they collected music from billiard- the sound when several balls hit each other. Before that, who would ever connect billiard with music? At least I wouldn't. And I was amazed.

Personally, I have been a hardcore billiard player since I got hold of the sport couple months ago. I loved its colorfulness, its quietness, and its precision. But never its music. Never thought of it.
So, I would like to dedicate my first piece of the project to billiard, for blowing off my mind and giving me weekend comfort every once in a while.

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The Music.

I experimented the big bang with oil pastels. I chose royal blue as the main hitting color because it was the most outstanding color I perceived from that one second in the video, and the color itself gives off a calming yet powerful feeling, which perfectly describes how I see billiard.

It was my first time playing with oil pastels after a long time, so it took me a while to find my way. While I was using it, I realized that adjacent black can significantly darken lighter colors if one is not careful enough. One of oil pastel's characteristics is coarseness; I shall practice more and learn to harness it well.

Otherwise, I am very happy with my first big-bang-music billiard story. :)



The Focus

Playing billiard is actually a very serious thing. Every time I play it, right before I am going to hit the white ball with my cue stick, I hold my breath, stop my mind, and simply focus my whole world onto that imaginary hitting point. The stick pushes in. Pong. Voilà!

This is my single, tiny focus point.

This is my simple, absolute focus requiring billiard game.
Welcome.

As you can see, I used a piece of black colored paper for this second illustration. I found a box of colored paper on the magic shelf down in the art studio, and decided it could give me more consistent black than manual coloring could. I poked a tiny hole in the middle of the paper with the head of a scissor for that single point of focus, single point of white out of the whole universe of black.


The Third Part to Be Continued...