Immortalizing dear friends on canvas

I went painting. Epic moment for me...because I haven't really painted anything since those torturous high school art lessons/exams. That's definitely more than 10 years ago.

Yu-Chieh, a dear church friend of mine, and I decided to go painting on the day I found out my singer friend, Elin had passed away from cancer. And 2 weeks ago, Chia Yen had just passed on too.

Two young, bright, beautiful mothers, wives and friends. 33 and 32 respectively. I had no words express my confusion and grief. It was then time to do something completely different and not routine. We dropped by Brendon's paint-ertainment cafe, The Escape Artist.

Starting off with the landscape colours.

I love this roller. It does wonders with acrylic paints.

Creates gorgeous textures.

My landscape. Warm colours.

I didn't add blue till later.

Yu-Chieh didn't quite know where to start at first.

So she randomly picked her happy colours. Purple and Pink.

Painting our broken hearts

Painting Chia Yen

This is a depiction of Elin. Singing. In heaven.

Little notes.

I used to put this on every exam paper I sat for.

It stands for "In God I Trust".

Ta-da

Yu-Chieh's happy balloon picture

This is the back view of Chia Yen leaping around.

My iphone collage of the painting

Comments

Siew Har said…

Your painting somehow looks professional.

November 4, 2012 at 11:13 PM

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