Watercolor Travel Journal
During my short trip to Italy, I also made a first attempt to keep a watercolor travel journal. Though I didn’t fill up the whole sketchbook like I hoped, I managed to get a few fun paintings in there.
Studies from the old masters
Went to a wonderful trip to Venice & Florence of Italy last month.
Also spend a few hours here and there to study some of the old masters’ work and did some quick sketches.
Advent Calendar Doodles 2014
During the month of advent, I had joined a couple friends to do a doodle a day based on a set of randomized words. It was a fun experience.
Color pencil Flowers
Based off photographs I had taken of flowers, I’ve created this set of color pencil sketches.
Photography gallery
Just finished creating a gallery site for my photography only
http://photo.spirit-mouse.net/
I also uploaded photos taken at the Renaissance Faire on there.
Botanic Garden Photo shoot
Spent a few hours at the Chicago’s Botanic Garden yesterday and shot some pictures.
Out of the 300+ pictures, I was lucky to have a few nice shots 🙂
Photography assignment
I’m taking a photography class the last few months, and this week’s assignment is showcasing five type of light. As a 3D artist, I appropriately choose to use “The Teapot” as my subject to do my lighting test~!!
Art nights
Since last year, a few of my art friends have been gathering at my apartment every other week for an art night. It’s a good chance for us to do art projects that we couldn’t get to, or simply draw and sketch for a few hours. Throughout the year, I’ve been taking the chance to do some animal sketches 🙂
Lion Sketch
Lizard Sketches
Animal Sketches: Bat, deer, jellyfish, peacock
Domo Birthday Cake
My coworker is a big fan of Domo, so I tried to make her the perfect cake for her birthday 🙂
Outside – Dark Chocolate Ganache, White Chocolate Ganache and Red Coloring from Boiled Beets Water
Cake – Yellow Sponge Cake
Filling – Whipped Cream and Strawberry Fruit Spread
Animal Body World
Took advantage of the Animal Body World exhibit this weekend to do some studies
Acrocanthosaurus Sculpt
Finished this sculpt while following the tutorial by David Krentz from ZBrushworkshop
My first 3d print!
To make our wedding cake more unique, I have created this model based off our Chinese zodiac animals – Dragon and Mouse on top of a pile of our treasures. I sent to print in polyamide by i.materialise.
Here is a photo of the caketopper –
Renders of the 3d model
And of course, it’s not a good caketopper if it’s not on top of a delicious cake~!
Ching Dynasty Empress
It’s been a long while since I last used pastel, it’s getting really rusty!
Maybe I can get back to that again soon….
Animal Sketches and Studies
Drawing from photos may not be the best way to learn animals anatomy, but I just gotten the book The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals, and gave me the itch to do some quick sketches of animals.
Dinosaurs Sketches
Did some sketches on Dinosaurs late last year –
And also a concept for the Kraken –
Paris Trip 2011
Spent a few days at Paris 2 weeks ago and done a few drawings at the Louvre and Musee d’Orsay
Victory de Samothrace has always been my fine art holy grail, it was sooo exciting and touching to see it in person!
Edible Art for X’mas 2010
Because I’ve a sweet tooth, yet I can only eat so much of it, I become really picky on sweets. Especially when I’m making them, other than taste wonderful, they also need to look pretty like an art piece.
I make Chocolate Truffles as X’mas gifts for friends and family each year and also, here is the first Yule Log cake I’ve made~!
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Wedding cake
A type of art that I do occasionally and edible is baking and decorating cakes.
But this is the first time I did a wedding cake, requested by one of my very good friend!
A chocolate rum cake, dark and white grand mariner chocolate mousse fillings, decorated with whipped cream.
Going along with the movie theme that the couple has used for their wedding, I’ve created the red carpet for them.
I was so relieved when the cake did not melt and collapse after on display for 3 hours!