Stickers
Just a few things that I drew after walking through Orchard Road and seeing all the stickers pasted on the telephone booth opposite the lido big screen on the Wheelock side. Was limited to my whiteboard marker, an orange marker, and a retarding red pen because I like these colours. 
For the first one, I wanted to put some energy and movement, while the second was supposed to be more shadowy and solid.
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Chuabucks shirt
Lol designed this for fun… It’s about my math/science tuition. Showing you the front and back. The back’s about differentiation which floats up almost everytime I differentiate something: “If you want your head you differentiate your head” and the front is “If 1 lollipop costs 4 dollars, then 5 lollipop costs ___” I know this all sounds like rubbish to you, but nevermind.
Yep. Anyway decided not to be as stupid as the flight shirt where you have lousy quality words and shirt outline thanks to the ever unfaithful Paint so drew out the shirt line. Used whiteboard marker and black pen on A4 paper. Crediting the front idea to some senior.
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The Droid Man
Came up with this guy in light of the Paralympics, superhero movies, and so on.
Just imagine! Pitting Batman against the Droidman, that’s how the story would go. The cover here is the droidman getting his ass-whupped, preferrably Batman just that the Batman doesn’t use guns.
I used my fine black marker on paper. His right arm got ripped off, while his left robotic arm is still working. His left leg is a mess because it’s so large and contracting with the veins popping out, but his right isn’t any better. The design of the right leg was something I got from that european runner who tried getting into the Olympic sprints even though he had prosthetic racing legs…
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Math Portfolio cover design
Yep for our math SIA we had to do a portfolio, so I did this for the cover. Lol after coursework I have something other than an ugly human to draw! For my math file I drew this butt-ugly green and yellow alien. So, it was fun drawing this. I used a Pilot whiteboard marker.
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Flight Shirt
Did this as a shirt design for flight! It’s very hard to do things with Paint and a faulty text box icon… Mediums used are Windows Paint and the ideal bballer character was marker on paper Was thinking of the ultimate bballer with long arms, long legs, wearing jersey, quite a big build, good eyes for court vision and a big ass smile.
The words were inspired from my old copy of Dime where the last page said: THE ONLY THING WORTH READING IS YOUR STAT LINE (put down the magazine and go play ball.)
Awesome.
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Tristan and Isolde
Another one. Each of us was supposed to do a write up on one of Salvador Dali’s works, and I chose this:
Tristan & Isolde (sounds a little like Liang San Bo and Zhu Ying Tai)
Interpretation
The two red staffs are like a demon’s spokes, dooming the two lovers. The sun rays in the background poking through dark, omninous clouds, are like the hope that Tristan and Isolde try to cling on to but are blocked by the obstacles they face, which is the layer of clouds nearest to Earth. Tristan’s hands are reaching for Isolde, but the way that his face and clothing is painted gives the impression that he is being pulled back. The barrow at his back also looks as if it is holding him back. The mishapen, old barrow also looks like something plucked out of a war zone, which is what happened in the opera where Tristan had to fight with a weakened army. The intertwining willows sprouting from Isolde’s back signifies a romantic relationship, however, since it is on her back, it is as if it is a thing of the past. The dandelion obscuring Isolde’s face shows her kind, but also shows how her identity was hidden from Tristan until the very end. The cracks on their bodies, which appear very deep, shows how heartbroken and seperated they are. Isolde is clutching her side, her rib, actually. This emphasizes the pain of their seperation. The whole painting basically shows a beautiful yet totured love, two people seperated because of circumstance.
Dali has basically told the whole story with the clever use of his subject matters.
Subject Matter and Composition
‘Tristan and Isolde’ has been well composed because the layout is well balanced, the left positions mirroring the way the right objects have been painted.
The painting depicts two unproportionate figures which do not exist in the world but further brings about what surrealism explores. Their fingers are long and tapered. The figures have fatless skin which stretches over their bones. An extremely thin neck is covered skin that sag around the hollows which looks as if the skin, though contracted to its limits, still fails to cover the neck bone structure tightly. The voice box is clearly visible. Connected to the frail-looking neck is a head with a squared face and large jaws. Both creatures have cracks that you would see in a slab of granite, and not of soft flesh or cloth, giving them a stony look. The beige figure on the left has two hands which clutch its ribs on its right. Most of the face, is obscured by a dandelion which grows from its back. Next to the roots of the dandelion is a very small tree which grows on its back. The roots look as if they are the hair of this creature. The figure has a crack that stretches from its back collarbone to its right armpit. The figure ends at what would proportionately be its hips. Beige cloth covers it. The other creature is painted in cooler tones. It is covered by blue cloth. It’s skin is grey. These colours give it a masculine feel. A tiny barrow has sprouted from the cloth on his back, and its face is masked by bandages. Tiny weeds have grown from its head. Two red poles frame the left and right of the painting. Tristan, Isolde, and the poles have long shadows, as if the light source is from the front, but there are many sun rays at the back. In the background, there are two trees on the left, and unplowed land on the right.
Colours
Salvador has dulled his colours which makes the painting look harmonius. The two poles framing the sides of the painting is a deep red, which contrasts with its darker surroundings. Likewise, the main subjects Tristan and Isolde stand out from the background because they have been painted with brighter colours and bolder shadows. Also, the back ground is made of grays and black, so Tristan and Isolde’s variety of colours contrast them. Because of the feminine, gentle beige, and the masculine, bold blue, I would guess that the beige figure is Isolde, while the other is Tristan. This colour representation could also be in cool or warm tones. Thus, Tristan could be the calm balance of their relationship. While red can mean danger, it can also represent love, passion, will, and ready people for a romantic play, which is what Tristan and Isolde is.
Brushstrokes
The figures have been carefully and clearly molded, well-defined by contrasting colours placed side by side. The strokes have been well blended and are barely visible. However, this makes the painting seem too perfect to be true, more like sculptures depicted in a dream.
Rationale
I chose this painting because I found it very interesting with many hidden meanings inside a painting which I thought was weird at first glance. I liked the way that Salvador Dali painted using mysterious colours and subjects, and the way he modeled the creases of Tristan’s face tissue. The soft yet bold colours really caught my attention and I wanted to dig up all the hidden meanings.
I like “Tristan and Isolde” because of the way it has cleverly held one entire story, the well modeled figures, and the rich colours The only thing that put me off was the plain ground of the painting.
However, I feel that the composition could have been better. Instead of a direct approach with little overlapping, Dali could have used a canvas which was more square, with Tristan at the bottom right, with Isolde at the top left, with a few other subject matters. If this had been done, I feel that the painting would have a larger impact. Overall, “Tristan and Isolde” is an interesting and mysterious painting which I enjoyed evaluating.
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Salvador Dali
Mehehehe the week before was… Mid Autumn Festival! So I went with my mom to taka and we looked at mooncakes 
Then while she was looking at kimchi and all I went to opera gallery and saw some really cool work that I’ll talk about some other time. A few days ago I revisted the gallery and they changed the pieces! Most of them anyway. But whoa busy gallery.
Anyway, this was done in what that feels like aeons ago, but thank goodness I remember the url.
The biography of Salvador Dali, whose personality is wack.
Salvador Dali (1904-1084)
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born to a prestigous notary on 11th May 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain. His artistic talent as a young boy showed, and he received his first art lessons at the early age of ten. His teachers were then famous Spanish Impressionists, and one of them was Ramon Pichot, and the other an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School, who taught him after Pichot. In 1923, when Dali was nineteen, his father gave his son his first printing press.
Dali then began studying at the Madrid’s Royal Academy of Art but was later expelled for lack of discipline. His opinion had been that he was more qualified than those who mentored him, and because of this, he was booted out twice and never took the final examinations.
In Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, Dali had experimented with Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical art movements, but eventually joined the Surrealists in 1929. He became the most famous Surrealist as a result of his talent for self publicity. He cultivated an image of himself as one who was eccentric and an exhibitionist. An example of this was when he donned a diving suit and appeared at the opening London Surrealists Exhibition. Dali claimed that this was his source of creative energy. Dali took over the Surrealist theory of automatism but actively transformed it into a more positive method which he named `critical paranoia’. Which referred to the world of unconciousness that is recalled in dreams.This theory was based and derived from those of phycologist Sigmend Freud.
In 1928, Dali visited Italy and adopted more traditional styles incorporated with political views, and this led Andre Breton, who was the supposed theoretical head of the Surrealists, to expel Dali from their Surrealist ranks, accusing the painter to support fascism and to have indulged in excessive self-proclamation and greed for money.
He later became a temporary item with Gala in 1932-1964, who became a very important figure in Dali’s life even though she was married. During their “peak” times, Gala had been an active sexual partner, compainion, muse, model, and business manager. She waa a Russian immigrant and was ten years senior to Dali. She later left her husband, Paul Eluard to follow Dali. However, the pair’s relationship became distanced though Gala continued to be Dali’s business manager in Europe to his expeditions in the States.
Dali had, by this time, left for United States to host various one-man shows. His first was in 1933 in New York, financially supported by Pablo Picasso with five hundred pounds. He chose to become a permanent resident in 1940 there in order to escape the effects of World War Two. He hosted a series of spectacular series of exhibitions and made a lot of money. This news reached the ears of Andre Breton, who comtemptously nicknamed Dali “Avida Dollars”, which aptly meant “greedy for dollars”, and was the rearrangement of Salvador Dali’s name. Dali became the darling of the American High Society because of his artistic prodigy.
In 1948, Dali and Gala returned to Europe. The male painter developed a lively interest in science, history and religion. He then intergrated various components which he picked up from science magazines into his art. Another source of his style-changing inspirations was from classical painters, Raphael and Velasquez, or the French painter Ingres. He commended this major change with words. “To be a surrealist forever is like spending your life painting nothing but eyes and noses.”
1958 was the year when Dali began painting large historical paintings. The artist’s late art works combine more than ever his perfect and meticulous painting technique with his fantastic and limitless imaginations.
Since 1970, the artist had dedicated all of his energy to transform the former Municipal Theater into a museum and art gallery. Finally in the year of 1974, “Theatro Museo Dali” was officially opened.
In 1980, Dali was forced to retire due to palsy, a motor disorder that caused a permanent trembling and weakness of his hands. He was unable to hold a brush any more due to this wretched illness. The combined devastating knowledge that he could not follow his vocation and passion of painting and the news of Gala’s death in 1982 left Dali with deep depressions.
After Gala’s death he moved to Pubol, a castle he had purchased and decorated for Gala. In 1984, when he was lying in bed, a fire broke out and Dali suffered sever burns. Two years later, a pacemaker had to be surgically implanted.
Towards the end of his life, Dali lived in the tower of his own museum where he died on January 23, 1989 due to heart failure.
The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg in Florida/U.S.A.
This art museum was founded in 1971 by the Dali collector A. Reynolds Morse and his wife Eleanor. The collection was first exhibited in a building adjacent to their home in Cleveland/Ohio. In 1982, the museum was moved to St. Petersburg in Florida. It hosts 95 oil paintings including six of Dali’s eighteen large-sized historical paintings.
Dali Museum-Theater in Figueres, Spain
The Museum was the former Municipal Theater of Figueres. In 1918, when Salvador Dali was only fourteen years old, it had shown his first public exhibition.
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School Wall
The first piece I did, and the skull hamster retains its original design here. As I did more pieces the character design changed and improved. The letters here are nice, inspired by one of the Youtube videos on graffiti and Graphotism volume… 44, I think (it featured Conor and CNSkillz Crew). It shows a human kid blasting his brains out, while smiling throughout it all (how big a hold the music has on him). Got it from the line “Shoot me 25 times in the same spot” “I’ve got this generation brainwashed” in the “I’m Shady” song. Damn haven’t heard it in a long time.
The skull hamster listens to his MP3 and the whole scene plays out. At the side on the left of the left tree you see a lot of blood that creates a mist along the bottom of the piece. That’s from the woman that had her neck slit so bad that her head dropped off (more refs to Kim, who comes out a lot in Em’s songs).
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The Green Woman
Remember the Reclining Figure by Henry Moore? I originally intended to do it with my character “leaning over the figure” while it’s on the wall so that there’s more interaction there… But in the end I scrapped the whole idea even though I liked it cos I decided that interaction isn’t the main idea of my compositions and with all the focus on that it would be, like what my chinese compos are… Anyway, this was originally done on the Victoria Theatre. The wall here is grander.
The skull hamster reaches for another album even though his hands are full- he can’t get enough of the energy of rap. The album it’s reaching for is, IMO, Eminem’s best: The Marshall Mathers LP. Then the skull hamster imagines that he’s got this super long penis (MCs are always going on about how big they are) and this green (cos of what she does) sleepy woman is breaking it up to take a long good sip.
The letters here are my favorite out of the 8 I did (I chose 6).
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Bball court
This is the outdoor basketball court of my school! Had to put a layer of low-opacity white over the “graffiti” part to make it seem more like part of the picture because the picture could only be taken behind the window… Opening it was scary because it felt like I would break the glass or something and damage the camera. This was my second design after the Wall. The images come from my earliest designs in the sketchbook. Originally I’d have put the “I’ll take each individual degenerate’s head and reach into it” image in but wanted to relate it to the blown up dummy. Again she’s lost her head and it’s sucking his d*ck. If you go on to YouTube and search for Without Me Live (not MTV version, but his actual concerts) he’ll be having the ICP blown-ups do the same for him.
The centre guy with the Jason mask on is a direct reference to Eminem, with the blond hair and all. “I’ma be a f*cking rapist in a Jason mask!” or something like that in his song “Criminal”. The MMLP holds his best songs. Also, the chainsaw refers to the Texas Chainsaw, who came up in “Kill You” (Texas Chainsaw left his brains all dangling from his neck while his head barely hangs on!), whose real name is Jason. Er Texas Chainsaw is a horror drama set in Detroit and he wears a Detroit hockey mask.
The right character, skull hamster, was the very first design I had which is why it’s head is like that, but I wanted to keep it that way because in graffiti there’s progress. Throughout my coursework, I think my designs became less toy-like. But it is still. Just less from J-13.
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