Painting showing in a restaurant

The paintings that I created in Holland are now showing in a restaurant located in south London.

welcome to visit them~

address: 164 Addington Road South Croydon CR2 8LB

Restaurant Name: Yaalu Yalu

 

New Painting Series in Holland (2) Completed.

For the painting selling in my friend’s restaurant, finally completed with the 3rd series, crab. by enlarging the perspective view…I try to make it more dynamic~

“I create the current 1 & 2” on A5 140lb paper,

and yea, tomorrow I am leaving Netherlands heading to Belgium. Finally I finish the 3 series that I planned to do. In Netherlands….where Van Gogh born. Inspired by his 3 painting object – sunflowers, crabs and kingfisher. with my limited skill and materials when traveling. 🙂

Sculptures by Peter Gronquist

just found one artist combining taxidermy with objects like guns and company logo, to raise the awareness of endangered animals (or animals killing). By hunting, or by company like McDonald and handbag company…etc. as I stil reading his works, I cannot give any judgement at the moment…but they are impressive for sure.

obviously…hunt for horns~

hunt for food, for fashion?!

pictures all from the artist’s website:

http://www.petergronquist.com/

New York’s Empire State X endangered animals

Very happy to see New York have such performance to raise awareness for endangered animals. Since during my research I found US is not as aware as UK….for the palm oil issue.

However, maybe the death of Cecil (paid and killed by the dentist)….people are getting more and more aware the animals killing problems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33750711?ocid=socialflow_facebook

and recently…..I am thinking the animals art is really a very good and potential topic to develop with, e.g. animals right, endangered animals (black market/ palm oil/ global warming…), wildlife conservation, or even the beauty of animals form….or human x animals relationship…would like to further develop any of them.

Products and Ads ref

here’s some meaningful products and ads found in the internet. For reference,keep reminding people from using less toilet paper, or the green land in Africa will gone.

 letting people know if they buy exotic animals souvenirs, they probably just like keep killing animals on the way they travelling

something like….smoking kills. But this one is reminding people the deforestation equal to killing the earth.

using plastic bag too much may kill animals. Since the plastic bags are not easy to decompose, when they go into the sea, many animals dying or suffering from them.

those are creative reminder, but not as Maiko said “into the debate” ….maybe making paper bag…or using alternative challenge is what she want me to do~

Illustration about animals and human

Just found some illustration quite funny, inverted the position of human and animals. they show how’s the feeling when the animal hurt the human in the same way. Artist – unknown~

Geometric Animal Sculpture

For my ref., is geometric animal sculpture again, seems many people doing that, this time is by paper.

DIY Geometric Paper Animal Sculptures by Paperwolf

other one is a decoration product by 3D printing.

http://soonsalon.com/products/equus/

Continue searching for Studio visiting

And I keep searching for artist I could visit,

Arran Gregory, graduated from Chelsea, I found his work in Facebook before, is a bit similar to mine but yea of course, he got his own style and material already; and I still finding~ hope I could have a chance to visit his working place~

for my reference, this page keep showing interesting animals arts, photos, facts…..etc

http://twistedsifter.com/category/animals

ref again,

japanese sculptor with special materials for animal sculpture:

http://www.tomohiro-inaba.com

Studio Visiting Project

Oscar asked us to find a studio, visit it and present on 6 Nov, as there is limitation in time, I am finding artist or studio base in London

here I emailed to Kendra but response disappointed me.

going to find another one….Ben Long, he is also one of my research paper’s content.

at the same time when I was searching on google, found another interesting animal sculptor, he collecting and using scrap metal to make sculptures. and some products as well~Robert Jefferson Travis Pond, Portland base artist.

http://www.steelpond.com

Clay for Survivors’ making

Recently trying to use the clay for my structural animal form. different units were used, to make rhino, tiger and eagle’s head. What I am using now is just earthenware. Asked and searched for the clay, better use stoneware which is harder, or try the  Crank, which is kind of stoneware, with bigger particle inside, that’s suitable for sculptures. Rhino was fired, seems good, only a one or 2 joints cracked while the tiger was damaged before firing, the joints not really well. The eagle looks good waiting to be dried out and fire.

for rhino, using bars, it blends easily under pressure. That could be a different style but looks good as well. If go on developing this style, all bars should be blended.

tiger by different polygons, 3-sides or 4-sided randomly. the polygon-clay was wait for a day to be drier. otherwise that is difficult to maintain the shape. off cut wood used for support. However, experts like Billy and Amanda suggested me to use newspaper next time; 1) clay will strink when dry, wooden pieces would make it crack while newspaper is flexible. 2) newspaper could be fired together and burnt out afterwards while wood is not a good idea to go together. Finally I was really careless when moving the tiger to fire…..damaged the base but will fire it though. Thus when I begin to make next time, better use a piece of newspaper under it so that easier to move.

after the two works…..this time making a bald eagle’s head is better. clay is harder and more patient into the work.