Incredibly Intricate Paper Cutting

“Wow!” This was my first impression when I saw this incredibly intricate paper cutting design by Hina Aoyama. I’m really attracted with her brilliant paper cutting artwork. Hina Aoyama, a Japanese artist living in France masterfully cuts details into sheets of paper to create these super fine, lacy, and fragile artworks. With just a simple pair of scissors, Aoyama is able to create super fine lacy-paper-cuttings like small butterfly wings, the fine script of a handwritten letter, and the details of a lotus flower.

 With intense patience, attention to detail, and a steady hand, Aoyama’s distinctive technique results in these hand-cut masterpieces, created across the course of hours and sometimes months. Her designs truly amaze me; I have never seen such delicate and perfect paper cutting on the scale of Aoyama’s work, and I am particularly impressed with the cursive text cuts shown below. Just cannot imagine how much effort and patience needed to get that fine script of a handwritten letter. All her artwork truly inspired me to be patience and creative with artworks.

 Like many other that inspires me, artworks need to be creative and significant to satisfy ourselves’ and Hina Aoyama, her artworks tells me that patience is the key of success. Like people always say, “Patience is virtue” or like in some movies, “Best thing comes when we wait”. With patience, I am able to take mistakes in my life and take them as lessons to be learned so that I can improve in future. Her artworks really require adequate amounts of patience and that is something I really need in order to make a great artwork.

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Hina Aoyama. (2012). Tchiyu Art. Retrieved from http://www.masajiart.gr.jp/chiyu-art/index.htm

The Incredibly Paint Girl from Malaysia

The lovely artist who makes mind blowing art from everyday objects like books, coffee, basketballs, and even candles. Who she is? She is a girl artist called Hong Yi from Malaysia that made a lot incredible paint around the world. Her latest artwork that is famous nationwide is the Adele portrait that she made by using hot candle wax. I can barely light a candle without burning myself silly and cannot even draw a straight line so I'm definitely beyond impressed at her ability to mold hot burning wax into a portrait of Adele's 21 album cover. The portrait is part of a 4-part project where she will involve the basic elements fire, water, wind and earth. As you can guess, this is fire.

Wow! It’s fire, how she do it with candle hot wax? This is Hong Yi’s answer: “This took about 2 weeks to plan out - I spent about a week looking for the right materials for it, and another week on working out how to use hot candle wax as my 'paint'. The art piece itself took about 7 hours to complete, and I think I used about 1500 candles!”. Can you imagine all the work it takes to actually burn 1500 candles? If it were me, I think I’ll break down and stunned looking at the ample amount of candles I have to deal with.

She has a few incredible artworks, which really amaze me and inspired me to be creative. Her artwork let me understand that it is not necessary to use only brush to create an incredible artwork; we can use everything in our daily life to create it out. When dealing with arts, anything and everything can be a tool for art.

This Jay Chou portrait was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou's song. The singer tells a heartbreak tale of a lost romance with a girl from 1979 who time-traveled forward 20 years and met Jay in 1999, and they fell in love. She then went back to 1979 and sketched a portrait of him. My painting is meant to look like a sepia-toned old photograph to capture the essence of this story.

The project took about 12 hours to finish. Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use - too little water and the rings would not form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. It had to wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible. All her ideas really inspired me a lot. It tells me that it takes the right combination of water to paint out the perfect shades or striking colors of a picture. So, I am still practicing the balancing of water in painting with a hope someday I can be like her with her as my idol of inspiration.

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Red, H. Y. (2012, August 21). Setting Fire to Adele [Blog post]. Retrieved from Oh i see red  website: http://www.ohiseered.com/2012/08/adele-portrait.html

Baby’s little story

Cute, princess, doll, precious, adorable, sweet, beautiful, pretty or may be lovely, words that can be use to describe babies. A baby’s charming smiles that always make my heart melt. I love everything about babies, the colorful life, colorful wearing, colorful room and even colorful things that baby uses. Baby’s smile, voices, daily usage will sometimes really inspired me; the first example is the incredible fairyland theme room for baby from Kidtropolis.

This amazing fairy bedroom takes captivating fairytale themes and brings them to reality. An indoor tree with life-size leaves, birdhouses, and flower shaped lamps, mushrooms, a bean stock, they are all here creating a fantastic environment. Everything in this kids’ room is eye-catching and original: the shelves, the bed-stairs, and the lockers. This room took about 4 months of prep work and a 5-day to install. I wish I could live in rooms like that when I was little…The special and amazing design really captures my attention and inspired me.

Besides that, kidtropolis also create a very amazing baby room that has also captured my attention which is the “Merry go Round” theme baby room.

This room was designed and installed to welcome twin boys to a beautiful magical world. This place is the perfect place for some amazing elements. The main focus of the room is the generously sized carousel housing 2 cribs and 2 custom detailed carousel horses.  These little boys can dream playful and whimsical dream in their own private carousel. Along the large window wall, the built-in storage is whimsically created as stacked letter blocks. Half of the blocks open providing storage ready for the entire toys and books twin boys could collect.  The blocks are stacked as if the boys had done it themselves ready to be played with repeatedly.

Kitropolis design always inspired me to be creative. The last design I was in love with is the baby room with the theme of “Sleep Baby Sleep”.

The room’s amenities create a personal and cozy space for this little princess: a fantasy carriage crib placed under a large oak tree with woodland animals watching over her, a cozy glider in which to snuggle and rock on late nights, and a beautifully upholstered floor to play on. In designing a nursery for your little princess or prince, there are five key components to consider which are theme, focus, storage, growth, and safety. How they inspire me you might ask? Well, the creation of these bedrooms tells me that my creation of every artwork tells a story or indicates a mood.

Therefore, I must always be in the right mood or portray the right mood for the right artwork in the place. Imagine if you were in a kid’s art exhibition and happen to paint a very dull artwork. Wouldn’t it kill the moods of the atmosphere? A right touch of the mood with the right color toning will satisfy your feeling make you feel proud of your accomplishments. Besides that, colors indicate moods and different gender wants different fantasy. A princess of a family would generally want her little palace to be pink and with all the unicorns she can have. Whereas the boys would always want to have fun on the carousel and all the blues making them feel like there’s lots of spaces for them. Boys typically would like to have more spaces for their “Prince story” and their adventurous fantasy. As relating this to me, I always make sure my artworks suit the mood of the theme. Aside from that, making sure the color is right for the artwork portrayed is something I always practice doing.

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Imagine. Create .Transform. (2012). Retrieved from http://kidtropolis.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/  fairy-bedroom

Desserts Story (Heaven’s gift)

Imagine that you are sitting in a tearoom with stenography interior decoration and a display while enjoying macaroons and a cup of luxury tea. Girls are always crazy for desserts, no matter where, when, what happened, what events. I’m crazy for every type of desserts, especially cakes, fruit pie and others. Every dessert has its story. Nevertheless, the most attraction for me is its mix and match recipes.

The most attractive dessert for me is the Austrian dessert, the Stollen cake. Hundreds of years like a day, modeling simple and complex practice, material proportion of the enthusiast, and this cake has only a few old pastry shop masters will do. In Austria, this Stollen cake has its scarcity value. Towards Connaught pastries Shop History Stollen cake is the source of the mysterious and delicious cake, it is said to taste, shape from the 19th century and has never changed, all handmade, only know that its ingredients are almonds, hazelnuts, sugar, chocolate and Austrian tortillas (Oblaten), only two instructors know the recipes and practice of this Stollen cake. The annual production of this Stollen Cake in the history is only 1300. Imagine the chances of you getting the taste of the cake when it is so limited and you’re not the only one wanting the taste of such heavenly delight.

The mix and match ingredients for the cakes inspires me to be creative and special in one way that it must be a significant indication of my creation. Like the Stollen cake, I always tend to think out of the box and do different things than the usual in order to attract and inspire people with my own work. It’s gives me the satisfaction from peoples appreciation to my work like the baker satisfy by customers appreciating his cake. Another dessert that is also in my attraction list is the Macaroons with colorful colors. They are small double-decker cakes, soft in the middle, offered in different flavors, colors and sizes. The taste will brighten your day, it's delicate and pleasant and the latest one, born last spring, is Bergamot.

The colors of the desserts and the mixture of the ingredients indicated to me that the color of attraction must also come with an amazing artwork. I wouldn’t want to picture myself eating an apple flavor macaroon while the color is purple, it complicates us and spoils our appetite. Just like drawing. Imagine all the striking color painted on a dull and poorly drawn picture. It will not beautify the picture in fact it indicates the downside of the picture. A right combination of lines and shades forming a perfect picture and the adding a dash of right colors will definitely paint out the best pictures like the right mixture with the correct color of the macaroons will bring out the best taste.

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Food and Drink. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.londonrevue.com/food/laduree.htm