MOVING TO A NEW BLOG!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you all know that I am working on a new blog for my artwork. Mainly for the ease of use and reasons like that.

The New blog is NOW OPEN!!! Please visit

http://tananthony.wordpress.com

In A Perfect World...

Well this piece is not really an artwork... more or less it's a short writing I did during a period of much thought and reflection of my own emotions and feelings. I hope you guys enjoy it. It's called "In A Perfect World..."

In A Perfect World...

In a Perfect World, we hold our hands walking down the street looking at the sunset. We could care less of what others would think or say, because in our world… it’s only us that matter. Happiness will be our motto, for everyday we have what completes us in every way. We would sit having coffee or just the regular hot chocolate since you don’t care for that cup of bitter juice. You would share with me your worries and your wishes… worries of time and space taken from us; wishes of having a future together. In this perfect world, no tears would shed from these eyes… as if the word ‘tears’ never existed in the dictionaries. In this perfect world, I could be what I want and whom I want… because it fulfills me.

But in this world, it is not perfect scenery. Skies are never always clear and snow will never stay white. Us holding hands would be shunned upon and looked at as something not of this world. Our feelings would never be taken seriously because of what everyone grew up listening to. And in this world, it is never how I have hoped to be. We can never be that perfect couple that walk down that glimmering street or go together to grab that intimate cup of hot bliss. We could never share our worries and wishes of us as one; for in this world, we do not see as one.

Your heart travels on one that sees active lines aggressively shooting through the routes in front of you. That bleeds sweat and adrenaline when challenged to a game with others. These lines have shields and swords to protect what is important to you. These lines only hope to go into a flowery tunnel filled with sweet fragrances and warm rays of light where at the end it can break through into many routes instead of staying in that one.

But in my heart, it does not walk the same roads. These roads are the flowery paths that seem to only belong in this tunnel. Fragrances that only imitate that which comes from the opening to highways. The lines in my heart are one that does not belong; yet it is sure that it is on the right track. Unlike yours that cross into tunnels and branch into something more, mine will never cross into yours and travel that same path. The path that seems all flowery and fragrant is filled with stones and cracks that slow my lines from catching yours. In this world, my lines don’t belong.

Yet some curse has thrown more rocks into my path. Those that resemble more like mountains than any typical rock. In this world, I climb this mountain trying to reach your path hoping that maybe we can cross into the tunnel together and branch into these vast highways. But when I reach to the other side, you have passed into that tunnel that I had hoped to be ours to cross. As my lines move faster to find some connection into your route, it quickly finds that the rails are never opened, and that my route only goes in the opposite direction of where I had hoped to go. In this world, it is not a perfect world: only a flawed one.

-Anthony Tan 10/24/2009

Current Work In Progress

Currently I'm looking at Kandinsky books to show me how abstract art is done. Or at least one way of abstract art. So I decided to section a part of Kandinsky painting and duplicate it with maybe some minor changes in it. So without much talking here is the current status:

This is almost at the stage of completion... so I'm hoping it will be done soon. :-D

The New Works

Well it is yet again another year in Binghamton University as I start fresh with a new semester of Art Studio Classes. What is even more unbelievable is the fact that I am now spending my last year in this school. Sort of scary yet relieving at the same time. The future is sometimes a very scary thing to think about especially when the situation in the world today is in such a slump. But they always tell you to keep a bright mind and an optimistic point of view or else you'll definitely jinx your future for sure so I hope that this is just the beginnings of more wonderful and great things.

So I am currently taking two oil painting classes, which I am quite excited by that fact yet scared only because that only means that the workload is even more than before. So just wanted to share a picture of my little work corner that I have officially claimed for the semester!

What you see here is where I hope more great artworks will be created. So expect lots from this corner... because I am.

Food Made to Look Good

So... I know I usually put my artwork up on this blog thing. But I also think that food in a way is art... as many chefs say. Also not only that but the presentation is definitely art when it comes to the high-class restaurants. Their plate sure looks like an artwork. So I decided to bake a cake and decorate it. My decoration may be quite elementary and the cake may be so-so but it's something to look at.

Dark Chocolate Mousse Yellow Cake w/ Strawberries & Blueberries

Cake: Yellow Vanilla Cake
Frosting: Dark Chocolate Mousse
Decoration: Strawberries & Brown Sugar coated Blueberries

The cake looks great... I think, but unfortunately the cake is a little dry due to over beating the cake batter. :-( Oh wells, one mistake makes you learn to do better.

Figure Drawing Series 2

With the fall semester through with... it also goes another semester of my Life Drawing Class. I was blessed to have a professor to be able to really guide me to improving my technique and observations. Although the first half of my semester was somewhat of a struggle, I really feel that I have a better perception of proportion on the human body. People did say that even though the professor's teaching is quite boring and fustrating at times... they do realize that in the end they improve a lot. And so by the end of the semester... I do begin the realize the madness in his methods and really start to appreciating everything that he has done.

So this series contains most of the finished works during my life drawing semester.. ENJOY!

Figure 6
Medium: Charcoal & Conte Crayon
Canvas: Newsprint Paper
Size:

Figure 7
Medium: Charcoal & Conte Crayon
Canvas: Brown Kraft Paper
Size:

Figure 8
Medium: Conte Crayon & Charcoal
Canvas: Pastel Paper
Size:

Figure 9 "SELF-PORTRAIT"
Medium: Pencil
Canvas: Bristol 'Smooth' Paper
Size: 11" x 14"

Figure 10
Medium: Pencil
Canvas: Bristol 'Smooth' Paper
Size: 11" x 14"

Figure 11
Medium: Charcoal
Canvas: Bristol 'Smooth' Paper
Size:

Figure 12
Medium: Charcoal
Canvas: Newsprint Paper
Size:

Tae Yang Portrait

Tae Yang Portrait
Medium: Pencil
Canvas: Sketch Paper
Size: 8.5"x 11"

Coming back to school a little early, I thought I would start working on doing portraits. After doing Life-Drawing... I definitely don't want to loose what I have learned. I still have much to learn, so hopefully by doing more portraits, I can evolve my techniques.

The sketch is of a singer in the Korean Hip-Hop group called Big Bang. His name... Tae Yang. He's definitely my favorite singer out of the group. Here's the original picture that this sketch was based on:

*picture credited to YG Entertainment Korea*