Title: Road to Nowhere

This is a road between two mountains that just cuts. The road is bright and colourful, in contrast with the gloomy, rather frightening surroundings.

Title: Wall

I love creating textures so much that I made another one. This one is created to look like a wall with posters papered all over it, torn down and papered again.

Title: Mountain

Another experiement with creating texture using scrap paper and acrylic paints (like "Red", the greeting card).

The craggy texture and whitish peak suggests a mountain to me.

Title: Red

I wanted to make a card that has a base colour of red to match a present I had bought a friend.

I decided to work using the Artist Trading Card format.

This one was created by pasting bits of scrap to create texture. Acrylic paint was then painted on, one colour at at a time. Each layer of paint was carefully blotted to create different areas of colours.

Title: ReCycle

When I made 'Dreams' (see previous post), I actually pasted a few pieces of used toto lottery tickets on the flyer (card stock). I then painted all of them together, and cut out the part I needed for dreams.

The inspiration for this came from looking at what was left. I saw lots of red (because the background used in the flyer was red), and green (because that was my base colour for 'Dreams', which put in mind of a lush landscape.

However, I wanted the piece to have a touch of the modern to it as well, hence the abstract sharp-edged pieces used to create the palm tree. How the tree was constructed may also have something to do with the fact that I am drawn to triangular shapes, and circles.

Title: Dreams

I've been thinking recently about why we spend the time queueing up to buy the Toto lottery even though the chances of winning are so slim. I think it all goes back to the a very human thing -- we have dreams. And for the price of a dollar or two, we get to dream big dreams, well, at least, until the results come out.

This piece represents the fragility of those dreams.

I wanted to create a more layered look, so I took a used toto lottery ticket, pasted it on a scrap from a flyer (card stock). I then painted a base using mostly green (because the colour is associated with money) with a bit blue and purple for texture. I then added small-sized lettering which formed the next "layer". The last "layer" is made up of large lettering accented by painting glitter (old nail polish) onto it.

Title: Urban Complex

I created this from a promotional postcard from a megamall in Malaysia.

This one started from my wish to create something with a weave.

I started by colouring the entire card with acrylic paint, taking care to make sure that words/letters can still be seen.

I then studied the postcard, and thought that I could perhaps incorporate some of the text in it -- 'Work smart and play harder..." -- into my piece.

I decided then to try to represent the city, with the weave representing interconnecting, unimaginative units stacked on top of one another, like we see with many urban structures these days.

"Work smart and play harder..." fits in well with this theme. We can all identify with the fast-paced life in the city.

The last step - to cover the entire area with white glue, and when it's nearly dry, to create a distress effect, to represent the stress and fractures of urban life.