The THREE Project©: October 2014

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The idea of choosing UMBRELLA as the next "it" project came to me when I was walking to the dining hall the other day and saw an umbrella lying on the floor soundlessly.
Umbrellas. I like them. Somehow they give me such a timeless fashion, a calm gentleness.

When I first started the production, I looked for black ink for the different curves of different umbrellas. However, I had no luck finding it.
Instead, I discovered a box of charcoal. Would this black work?

The box of charcoal I found on the "magic" shelf.

It turned out that I LOVED the texture of charcoal!
It is so very smooth and thick, one just needs to be careful with its small powders though.

My dirty fingers after using the charcoal.
Even though I tried to hold the charcoal as lightly as possible, it still left significant black marks on my hand.

Next, I thought of my crazy dream about umbrella when I was little.
I loved rainy days. I hope there could be enough rain that the world became a river and I could use my umbrella as my boat when I went out. Ah the boat floats and floats.
(I now know that it makes no physics sense and flood is indeed very destructive.)

Dream is dream. It is where umbrellas go in my heart.

Trying out different sketches. (The one on the left was the picked one)
Found that using a smaller brush would help portray the umbrella boat's thin handle.

Purple is always so hard to mix!

Trying to jump out of the formerly set perspective, I found myself looking at the top of an umbrella.
The contour of it is so perfectly circular (that I had to draw the line around a cylinder container), and the lines on it so perfectly straight (that I had to use rulers for them).
Then I asked myself what I felt about umbrellas.
Little Suns.
Each umbrella has a little orange sun in its middle, melting away sadness and drying up wet tears from the sky. The sun is tiny, but it means whole lot to the tiny world beneath it. Warmth, dryness, comfort.

A black marker for the circle, and a red colored pencil for the linings.

Two orange oil pastels for the melting sun in the middle of the umbrella.

THANK YOU!

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

NEW ON THE WALL

After its birth two weeks ago, the Wall has grown much with ever growing collections.

zoom in....

Look ever closer!!

You might have found some rearrangement and new members.
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On the upper left corner, it's the first illustration I took on for "Friday Night" using a see-through paper.

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Right in the middle, there are first two illustrations for "Desperation."

It was actually a creation after my own personal experience couple weeks ago when I was facing my production bottleneck.

I had millions of great future expectations for the Three Project flying within my head, yet I could not pin point down to what to do next. That was where the vase with colorful opening and dark dull core came from. Oh Desperation, Oh Dear Beautiful Bottleneck.

The second illustration came when I was experimenting with black ink. This free drop of black ink is exactly how desperation feels like- careless yet endlessly disappointing and helpless.

Emotions are powerful.
The abstract has infinite possibilities.

THREE© #4 -Surprise

Surprise I - A Dash of Rue

This dash of pink itself was created by accident too.

I was drawing another illustration when I made too big a swing and voila, the pink was there.

And I loved it!

I was amazed by this pink dash's carelessness yet delicacy--this is exactly like surprises, which are always so accidental yet beautiful in their own somehow exquisite nature!

Surprise, embrace the accidental beauty.