Da Vinci master copy

My friends suggested master copy to improve my drawings.
I'll do that if I had more time. Too much homework.
http://comfortpit.com/drawing-exercises-leonardo-da-vinci/

I wonder how would the below look like in chinese ink.

Leonora Carrington - English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington
using a cat - prop.

Georgia o'keeffe - American artist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

quintessential art chick look

Louise Bourgeois - French-American artist and sculptor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

 

   her work

Marlene Dumas - Artist/writer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dumas
http://www.marlenedumas.nl/



self portrait

her work

It was not easy to access the image of this artist. To put in crudely, it seems like images of her works travel faster and further than the images of the artist itself.

Yayoi Kusama - Writer/Artist

It's interesting to see how artists style themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama

 

 

 

I won't like to wear a wig.

「忐忑」龔琳娜

Coming from a tradition of technique and mastery then letting go.
Art music
Contemporary music
New music
Interesting and beautiful.

Rowena Reed Kostellow

Why isn't there a wikipedia page for rowena reed kostellow? Hello, internet? Anybody home?

guess who?

Who is this couple? Look at their countenance carefully.



 
It's the last emperor of China Puyi and the last empress Wanrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi#/media/File:%E6%BA%A5%E4%BB%AA%E5%92%8C%E5%A9%89%E5%AE%B9.jpg

Alexander Mcqueen

Another Ted video: John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online

And then, when I was in tenth grade, I went to this school, Indian Springs School, a small boarding school, outside of Birmingham, Alabama. And all at once I became a learner. And I became a learner, because I found myself in a community of learners. I found myself surrounded by people who celebrated intellectualism and engagement, and who thought that my ironic oh-so-cool disengagement wasn't clever, or funny, but, like, it was a simple and unspectacular response to very complicated and compelling problems. And so I started to learn, because learning was cool.

Learning is a kind of culture.
Culture shapes us all.

We cannot always choose our culture. but as artists - don't we hope to shape it? don't we hope to contribute to it? aren't we super sensitive to it?

I will still try to choose as much as I can.


http://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_learning_everything_online/transcript?language=en#t-339405

Images of Karl Lagerfeld

Reflection: Isaac Mizrahi: Fashion and creativity

http://www.ted.com/talks/isaac_mizrahi_on_fashion_and_creativity/transcript?language=en

Realised that I watched this before. But nevertheless, re-watching it is a good reminder.

It's nice to listen to people who know what they're doing and how they're doing what they do, explain what and how they think and do things.

haha. so round about. sometimes artists like artists to write in round about and unclear ways because they think that it sounds very smart.

Anyway, I mean, it's nice to listen to people who are good at their game and who know their creative process, talk about their creative process.

But that's also because I like to learn about creative processes.


1) Anyway, back to the video. At some point after watching it the first time, I must have decided to agree with Mizrahi's strategy. That is to embrace my doing lots of things.

I must have like a thousand interests. seriously. literally. I've researched from things ranging from Queen's music to Anita Mui, to Albertina museum, to Camus's sisyphus, to Empress Wanrong, to the skins of the recticular python, to the breeds of orchids, to the breeds of gibbons. I don't remember everything. But I have come across very many things.

I also have a thousand ideas, and I also want to do a thousand things. Only half of my portfolio is on my website. because I don't want to confuse people.

My facebook community doesn't even know that I'm studying at Nafa yet!

"And you know, I don't say that I do everything well, I just say that I do a lot of things, that's all. And I kind of try not to look back, you know...Because if you do many things you get to feel lousy about everything, and not just one, you know. You don't master feeling lousy about one thing. Yeah, exactly."

Anyway, I think he's a good speaker. I don't like his art direction more than... Karl Lagerfeld's but I respect Mizrahi a lot.

2) And I agree - "I don't say it's good, I just think it's not boring, right?"

And that's my goal in creation. To make something interesting.

But then again, in VA, it's a bonus if it's also beautiful.
Because... a beautiful thing - is better than just a thing.
Like how an interesting thing is better than just a thing. 
So a beautiful interesting thing is better than just a beautiful thing or just an interesting thing.

In my books. it's a matter of personal taste.

My goodness - I can just go on and on.