Pastel Palette 20190910 ~ Peace Mandala

This is another piece of artwork that I like!

Pastel Palette 20190909 ~ Love Mandala

This is another piece that I try and I am not so satisfy this but it is my creation! It give me the feeling of charity and the love to help others.

Pastel Palette 20190907 ~ Harmony Mandala

This is my first mandala that I do of my own. Frankly speaking, I am pretty impressed of what I can produce. And I love it so much! I added some jewellery stickers on it and sprinkles some golden and silver dust on top, and it can turn out so nice!

Pastel Palette 20190906 ~ My Winter

I feel that I should complete my version of 4 seasons, the last one is my Winter. There is still can see some sunlight in the midst of the winter morning, some green trees covered with snows. Even though there is a dried trees without leaves but it still give me hopes in the Winter that is cold and still.

This is the Winter I want!

Pastel Nagomi Art 4th Class

This week is the last class of the Pastel Nagomi Art. Besides sharing any artwork which we did last week, this week we learned something new.

Teacher Mici taught us about using the pastel to create Mandala artwork. I cannot imagine that I can do something so beautiful like this!

It started with the brightness in the centre of the myself, and how I can influence my lightness to the persons beside myself.

Pastel Palette 20190829 ~ My Autumn

This is my Autumn! I want to see the Autumn’s sunlight through the leaves. I always want to see the light through the moody circumstances and gloomy days!

Pastel Nagomi Art 3rd Class

Today before the class, we shared last week homework, we continued back last week the pastel class on the 4 seasons – Winter. After the we did the Winter, Teacher Mici asked us to stick on the wall.

After which, she gave us a simple meditation session and from the meditation we had, asked us to paint whatever images or things which came into our mind.

I do not know all about the meditation. I just know that in my mind I have a bright lightness that I can see through the dark mists or darkness. Thus, this is my painting.

And this is my artwork for the 4 seasons which learned over the past 2 weeks in the class.

Pastel Palette 20190826 ~ My Summer

This is the Summer which in my mind – clear white and blue sky, sandy beaches and blue sea. It gives me a kind of peace and comfort feeling. I know that it is simple.

I would love to imagine that if I am going to turn into my golden years later, I would want my years there after just like the Summer like this. I can see the blue sky, I can see the clear seas and looking at the beautiful dawn peacefully sun rising and the beautiful sun set too.

This is my Summer.

Pastel Palette 20190823 ~ My Spring

There is homework which Teacher Mici gave to us last night during our 2nd class last night: What stage of your life currently is now? Is it Spring? Summer? Autumn? Or Winter?

We learned how to draw four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in Pastel Nagomi Art method. Last time we learned till autumn.

I personally think that I do not agree at all of the question that teacher gave, because in life there definitely we will bounce to go through some challenges and trials. I should not look at my life now as like season. Even though in Spring, or Summer, or Autumn, and even Winter, that is really up to me to look at life and how I want it to be?

At that moment, I was thinking of like… How my Spring would be? How is my Summer are like? How can I see hope in the Autumn that gloomy and moody? How can I see the sunlight in the midst of coldness in the Winter?

Even Spring too… under the clear blue sky… you will see some darkness under the clouds. That is how I want myself to treat my own life the way it is.

It is just like the dandelion. After the dandelion flower head dries out, the mature seeds that attached to the white, fluffy “parachutes” which easily detach from the seed head would glide by the strong wind, dispersing…

I feel that: that is the way how I want my Spring to be. I will still trying my very best and fly high even under the wind, and whatever that come along my way.

Pastel Palette 20190818 ~ Companion

I took out the piece of pastel artwork which I did in the class days ago, and look at it again. Suddenly I felt that I was alone in the artwork… All these while, may be I am too self-centre or focus on myself but neglected the people that are around me.

It gave me an idea that I should paint another piece of artwork that 2 trees represent 2 persons. My heart feel that I need that too… It is really tired to walk alone and face all the challenges alone… Sometimes I just need a shoulder to lean on, even just sit beside, no conversation is enough…

Pastel Palette 20190816 ~ A Tree that Glows

Teacher Mici gave us homework last night. She asked us to paint what we can see after we meditated with our own painting last night. What we can see and what we would like to paint next?

I just have an idea of wanted to paint a tree that glows. I want to become that tree. I think of the tree of life which was in the Lehi’s dream in the Book of Mormon.

I want to become a tree that can glow in the dark. I want to become that person that will still try her best to become that light even in the darkness times of her life.

I want to become a glowing tree!

Pastel Nagomi Art 1st Class

Today is the first class of Pastel Nagomi Art, Aunty Jasmine also attending the class. The class started a little bit late due to the bad weather and every way was jammed.

Teacher Mici gave a brief introduction of the Japanese Pastel Nagomi, in which one uses pastel powder and fingers to create gentle, transparent, warm and heart-touching art through simple yet unique ways of painting techniques. The kanji character of “Nagomi” is “和”, which means Harmony.

The therapeutic nature of this pastel art is able to create peace, harmony, and hope from the heart of the painter and also to the people who admire the pastel art.

The results are magical, where it is able to sooth emotions, calm down and relax the mind, reduce stress and depression, increase self-awareness and self-discovery through colours and symbols, enhance self-esteem and confidence, bring joy and harmony to the heart, at the same time stimulate aestheticism and inner sense of beauty.

To start the lesson, Teacher Mici taught us how to use pastel and draw or paint, by using knife and scrap out the pastel powder, and how using fingers to apply onto the paper. We have various kind of painting tools, such as a small cutting board, circle template, paper to cut for the shapes that we desire, rubber eraser, wet wipes tissues, cotton buds, facial cottons, etc..

Everything would have to place it in a proper and neat manner, so that the whole table would not be messy. It is quite common to me as the founder himself is a Japanese. Japanese are famous for their cleanliness and neatness of doing things.

We first paint the ground, then follow the sky, and the little heart in the sky, and finally the small tree which represented ourselves in the painting. It was considered fast in completing the drawing not less than 20 minutes, and it turns out pretty well and indeed I gained satisfaction in it!

Initially Pastel Nagomi Art was not my favourite but I guess after this class, I kind of like it. It indeed reminds me from my school days when I was in my art classes. I can feel that all of my artistic senses are starting to come back and flow into my blood.

Creative Aesthetics Art Class

After I had a tea session with Aunt Jasmine the other day during when we met for her ceramic cups donation for Puchong Branch YSA Convention Fund Raising. We had a tea at café at Kota Kemuning. She shared with me about Zentangle.

It gives me some interests to learn about Zentangle. It has been a long time that I forgo about the art that I used to love to do. I am thinking of wanted to enrol the Tzu Chi Continuing Learning Centre at their Puchong centre.

The classes will start from 18/7/2019 to 3/10/2019, every Thursday from 7.30pm – 9.30pm. It consists of Zentangle class, Nagomi Pastel Art class and Soul Collage class. All these 3 type of classes are new to me.

I am quite exciting as I enrol these classes and hopefully can learn something that would probably excite my mind and rejuvenate my creativity juice again.