Qin Theory: STUDY OF ART: May 2011

Forever a Child @ Heart

No matter what you are,

a child, a teenager, an adult, a parent or a grandparent...

Happy Children's Day!

For we all have once been children, and we all have children around in our lives.

Let's celebrate with a youthful heart,

Recollecting our childhood memories,

Playing with our junior friends,

Or...

Just dip ourselves in a childlike day on JUNE 1ST!

June 1st is international Children's Day, although I don't think every countries actually celebrate it as a confirmed holiday or on the same date. Children's Day and my birthday used to be the two days I looked forward to the most in a year when i was a child. I grew up in China. I remember before I turned 12, my parents celebrated Children's Day for me every year. They always bought me gifts, dressed me nicely and took me out, sometimes along with my friends too, somewhere special to have fun. Particularly, elementary school kids get the entire day off on that day, and schools usually held Children's Day performance and activities in late May.(it is no exaggeration to say that they do everything to celebrate this holiday.) I've only danced once in my life and I got kicked out a few days before the performance... well it's okay, my drawings are on the school shows every year, and sometimes writings too... the last time I drew with a bunch of kids on a super long white fabric for the art show was such a long time a go. 8 years?wow, can't believe it.
Yeah, not only some parents take a day off from work on that day to spend time with their kids, schools and communities are doing nice things too such as dinners/parties, TV programs etc. (yeah, I was on a TV show one year:D)

Since 1925, International Children's Day was proclaimed, I believe children's rights and wellbeing have been widely spread and accepted in the world.

I started to miss Children's Day after the June 1st in grade seven, a very short in class celebration in junior high, which was supposed to be our last year of Children's Day. And then we became youth.
I will become an adult soon next year.
Growing up is not bad at all.

Well, on this day, I would like to thank my parents for all they did on Children's Day when I was a child.
Wish everyone stay young at heart.

LOUD LAUGHTERS and FREE HAPPINESS.

Every Day is Your Mother's Day, Mama

A drawing of a beloved person is precious.

This is a gift for my mother on the Mother's Day. I started working on it Friday night while I was on a fever, so it's a quick drawing but I worked really hard. It is drawn with pencils crayon, pastels, charcoal, HB pencil and Qin's magic fingerXD... Due to the size of the drawing(11*15), I'm still looking for an art envelope as a protection and going to frame the drawing before I get back to my mom this summer(She's in China).

I didn't realize what a gorgeous woman you until I started to draw you

But you are always beautiful, Mama

On this special day, I am not able to deliver a carnation to you

as you are so far away from me

but I do have something special for you as every year

this drawing is my carnation!

Don't be surprised how much my drawing skills improved this year

This is how awesome your daughter is:)

I can't describe how much I miss you when the strokes I created made up into your face

Touching your beautiful smile with my fingers, I really want to say to your

I love you.

I'll do anything to make you happy.

你是世界上最幸福的妈妈。

I'll make every day your Mother's Day:).

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers around the world!

I'm very inspired...

Dropping by the art show in OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University is the best part of my day. The fair is called Graduate Exhibition and there are dozens of awesome artworks, and I lingered for so long on the floors with the stuff I'm most interested in, drawings & paintings(I also saw some material and environmental design though.)
Some ideas are quite extraordinary, for example...;), they still inspired me to be honest.

It was my first time to visit an art school/school. The atmosphere of art and creativity really made me infatuated. Though I never expect myself to go to the art and design field, I started to imagine the life studying there and working among hundreds of genius. That way, doing what I'm so bloody passionate (well, if the word passion is red in my mind, bloody, I mean my passion is infinitely red ), life will be no flaw at all. Just imagination though... I think I may go crazy if I become an artist. I would fast myself for a project and I might commit suicide if nothing inspired me at all... I don't think I mean joking.

I visited the art exhibition by accident. A fantastic accident I mean:D. I was intend to take a look at OCAD University for a couple of minutes as I pass it by, and the art exhibition dragged me there until two hours later. Of course I was not prepared with a notebook and a pencil, but I took notes with my camera and and my iPod ↖(^ω^)↗, and I went shopping for art supplies afterwards.

Here are my inspiration.
(I may write it with my "codes" and I hope it's okay...)
- Sketch journal
- Pouring + texture
- Hot glue as texture
- Self-portrait series
- Black & white paintings ( maybe red and white for some particular paintings)
I don't know how to explain it, not because English is my second language, but I think I do have issue about expression.
- Paintings of cool photographs of me and my friends
- "Dancer" on wooden canvas
- Simple on long canvas
- woolen yard sculpture
- Charcoal on wood

I'm in a dilemma, that on one hand, I have so many ideas and so much passion to do art, and if I have a whole week off I wish I will do nothing but paint; on the other hand, I am so busy, so busy everyday... I really need to do well in school, I really need to pass my swimming lifeguard exam, I have to work for Student Council and so on, my mom asked me to learn French, and I'd better more exercise...
I'm always trying to be less horrible managing my time. No matter how busy and stressed I am, I unload all them when I'm doing art; if I have to give up on something, it won't be my art.

I couldn't stand the fact that there was a post without a picture of my art, so I add this...

even though it's something crappy.

I draw this in October 2009, on the night a friend of mine in China asked me to design for the mural painting which she was responsible for at school...

I don't think she ever used this as blueprint since she didn't receive it on time anyways; I do think she did a great job designing by herself.

This special drawing is about my memories in junior high in China and it was drawn on the other side of my gr 10 science homework, under the page in the photograph is my guitar text book.

No Garbage: Hand-made toys from grade 8

I'm currently working on a big acrylic painting on Thursdays, and school work and other extra-curriculum courses have occupied all the other days...

Thursday afternoons when I do painting with Shirley is the only time that can make me leave all the stress and frustration behind. I feel peace and joy from it.

Now, I really don't have much new stuff to upload to my blog but I have the pictures of the stuffed toys I made when I was 14:D.

They are actually all given to my friends or families as gifts, but I did keep the pictures before I gave them away. Let me introduce them to you one by one:).

1. A turtle!

She is the first stuffed toy I ever made. I made it without any instruction, supervision or even a map, using strings, needles, cotton and old clothings and buttons, learning everything from working with hands all by myself, and even under the table because my mom would seriously get mad if she saw me doing this instead of studying.

I started from cutting an old pink sweater I'd worn from grade four to six. It has really nice colors and patterns, and the two lines on sleeves can be made into the closure of its shell; pay attention to its tail is made of the elastic wristband from the sweater. I made one of its eyes half-shut because it looks like this expression: "-_-|||". LOL; the other eye is made of a button from my pants.

I gave this to my boy friend... Yeah, a boy friend in grade eight and we are still together though we are hundreds of kilograms apart...

2. The following toys are related... I mean it's a series of stuffed toys, from the same ancestor(my "zebra" shirt).
He is called 幺不 (sounds like "yob" or "yao-boo"), I didn't even know how to say it right when I looked at it after a few years... at the time when I made this, I look over dictionaries to find the words to name it. I don't think 幺不 is a great name for it though....
I guess the little devil-styled toys are quite popular in that summer.
The metal button is pretty cool. It's from my pants and that was the only one. I had to sew something else to replace it after cutting it off.