The face

Happiness is completion of this painting -  4ft by 5 ft  - same height as me.

Face in progress

Started on my face. Hopefully you can see it in my solo exhibition -- akan datang in 2013.

Aluminium framed canvases

1st June today. An auspicious day?  Just happened that i have finished painting the 6 faces of my beloved, and the paints are dry and pictures ready to be framed. I love them all - the serious, the comical, the contemplative, smily, the hard and the soft.

On one wall of the studio, a 9-panel frame with blank canvases has been on the wall for the past few days. This will be my largest painting since leaving Emerson College. Dare I put my first brush stroke on it today?

From Abstract to Face

 After spending the last 3 years in painting abstracts, I decided to switch to faces.
More faces have appeared in my studio since October 2011.

FRIENDS, each face is on a 16 inch x 20 inch canvas.

The making of a face.

 Oil on canvas.  This is my "first brush".

 After letting the paint settle for a day, I added another layer, bearing in mind the light and darkness.

Another 2 more layers of oil paint to finish the face. 

I have begun to enjoy painting faces. 

And now embarking on the journey of painting 60 faces

New Art Studio

November 2010 - my new art studio in Relau, Penang. 

With the setting up of this new studio, i decided to have a revamp of my blog too.
April 2011 - Launch of this blog as part of  my Internet presence with a new Gek Art web site at http://www.gekart.net/ .  While the web site is an online gallery of my finished works,  this blog covers my visits to art exhibitions,  my works in progress,  sources of my inspiration and my travels.