Saturday, May 22, 2010
MOVING TO A NEW BLOG!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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
Monday, October 12, 2009
Current Work In Progress
The New Works
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!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Food Made to Look Good
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Figure Drawing Series 2
So this series contains most of the finished works during my life drawing semester.. ENJOY!
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:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tae Yang Portrait
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: