Countenance

Title: Countenance

Medium: Poster paint & 300gsm paper

Saw this random picture here and I don't know, it stirred me. I feel that the picture is just one of those things you can't put into words. There's something incredibly sad & lonely about it. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, it's just...it is what it is.

I tried a bunch of things to reproduce the wall in the picture but failed repeatedly. By the time I'm done the paper's fairly abused but it's a good paper, so it survived. I tried salt but discovered that they don't work on poster paint, then I tried the good ol' fashioned water dropping (I don't know the correct term for this) but it didn't work either. So I ended up using Q-tips. Didn't take time to do the highlights in the hair because I lack the patience. Reminds me of what my art teacher said in form 5, "You don't put in the hours to reach your potential." I'd say I don't have enough 'potential' to be bothered to put in the hours in the first place. Besides, when your best friend is an art prodigy, you tend to feel mediocre all the time hahah.

Persuaded my lil cousin to paint with me. She painted some maple leaves. I'm a good teacher heh. 

Muni's maple leaves, and well, my painting.

Lil bro drew a castle but got 'emotional' when he started colouring it. He's got some sort of inferiority complex (like me) when it comes to art. He's really good, but all he sees in his little drawings are flaws. I try to encourage him but he'll have absolutely none of it. Funny boy. He drew a castle, with no picture reference whatsoever. He HATES his drawing though, said he's "put it where I'll never have to see it again." Haha, he's always been a sensitive and melodramatic boy. Anyway, me being me, found his drawing and snapped a picture:

Adi's floating castle.

It's pretty good aite? And nobody had ever taught him 'perspective'. He first employed perspective when he drew a chair. When I asked him where he learned that, he simply shrugged said "It just makes sense." My darling little brother.

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P.S. Happy New Year!

P.P.S. I've discovered that the dude in the photo is Nate Fisher from the Tv series 

'Six Feet Under'.