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Touch of colours!

These boring cabins that were turned into a temporary office for an event looks nice and interesting.Just a little bit of colours made a lot of difference!

Sketching KLCC

 A few days ago I saw a lady sitting on the pavement next to the entrance of Isetan at KLCC Suria.Besides her,I saw a guard standing by.By the way, there is always a guard around this part of KLCC garden.

Sketching is good for my mind and my hand.I do sketch as I feel like it even though I am not good at all.It is quite therapeutic,at least for me.Many of us can draw...why not give it a try.

If you have not seen what others had done,please check this website for urban sketchers.

Below is my sketch of a cafe garden at The Curve.

 

Sketch #8

After having my early dinner at a restaurant,I took some time to sketch the fresh flower that sits on the centre of the table.Using a black ball pen to draw the outlines and later I used fine colored Staedtler triplus fineliners.When I returned home I added the background with water colours.If you cannot notice,it is a fresh red rose!

By the way,the real thing is much more beautiful than what I could draw here.Before I drew this,I had to see the details of the stalk and the flower and that made more aware  and appreciative of Allah's creation.

Have a good weekend to all.

Photos ,Arts & Graphics at LRT stations

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Originally uploaded by Adibi

While taking a trip from Ampang to KLCC on the LRT today,I observed that the walls of LRT stations are plain boring.May be these spaces are reserved  for rental to advertisers but while waiting for the adverisers to come in, why not decorate them with some nice photos of the life of the people living in KL or the artwork depicting Malaysian life.I think National Art Gallery and mg KL Flickr friends are to happy to co-operate to make our journeys more colourful.

I hope the management of Rapid KL can look into this matter,not only to promote arts but also to promote tourism in our country.

I keep sketching..

Please forgive my indulgence in trying to do something that I have nothing to show off but it is important for me to keep on trying to improve my free hand sketches.It is my effort to improve my hand movements,to improve my fading memory and and an exercise to pay attention to details.This shot is a 3rd attempt to capture what I saw at Putrajaya Wetland using pen and a few coloured pencils.You can see my previous sketches here with some photos.My experience showed me that I learn more about my life when I started To Draw my Life.

Geometry is an artistic expressions?

Below is the view from the bottom of the roofs of Masjid Saiyidina Omar Al-Qattab at Jalan Setiabudi,Bangsar,KL

I was sublimed

The news of an art theft in Paris reminded me to call my friend Dr Najib,the DG of National Art Gallery.(NAG).My appointment to see him was at 4:30pm but I arrived at 4:10pm.Since he was with a group of people,he told me to visit the second floor where Mosaic Malaysia exhibition is being held.

I am glad to see our NAG is alive and interesting to visit.As I went up the escalator at the entrance,I saw a nice Republik Cafe and saw teenagers doing sketches while having their afternoon tea/cakes.On the left hand side,I saw an artist talking about art to  a group of children.As I entered,I saw another artist doing potrait. On the way,I saw a group of kids partipating in the drawing contest.In short, the place is lively and interesting to visit.

As I entered the hall 1 of the 2nd floor,the first photo measuring about 10ftX6ft greeted me .It was so beautiful that I lost the sense of time how long i was standing in front of it.I was speechless and dumbfounded!As I moved along the walls to see other paintings by the Chinese artist Zhang Zhou,I was mesmerised.The only word that came out of my mouth is 'beautiful'.This is a world class artist that those who appreciate art should not miss at all.I have been to few art museums in London and Paris,the NAG exhibition this time is really great and as good ,if not better than those overseas.

Next, I moved to hall 2 and again,I feel like not going back home.I just wanted to be there!My walk through ended when the DG called for my appointment.I promised myself to come back again and stay there for at least one hour in each hall.

While having tea with the DG,I congratulated him for his efforts to put such an exhibition.The exotic beauty of the artist expression has absorbed my soul into itself and I was consumed by it for a few moments.When I told these feelings to the DG,he smiled and told me that I was sublimed by the arts.Thank you Dr Mohd Najib for a wonderful trip to world of art and now I am quite happy to be transformed back to 'solid state' from 'vapour state'.

Dictionary defination of sublime:

1: to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form'.

Urban sketches..

More than a month ago I blogged about a similar subject.This is something that I love to see the work of creative people but have no knowledge at all on the subject matter.If you wish to know more about it,kindly read here.

While at MPH bookshop at GE Mall yesterday,I stumbled upon a nice A5 blank notebook.It costs me about RM16 and about 50mm thick.I thought this is a good notebook for me to simply do sketches whatever I see and comes to my mind{my moleskine is too good9read more expensive) for this}.By the way,I like the caption on the cover of the notebook that says..DRAW YOUR MIND!That is a tall order for folks like me.Writing is easier because I can translate ideas into words made of alphabets;but to draw is something else.

By the way,I usually bring my compact camera with me when I go around the city.Anything of interest,I snap a photo.However, making a sketch of the thing we see is more engaging and satisfying even though I hardly can sketch like those you see at the website for Urban Sketchers.It is in the details!

Below is my first try using a ballpen to sketch on the fly while waiting for my chicken chop to arrive at Cozy House,GE Mall,Jalan Ampang.For more,check my flickr.

Trying harder to sketch

Being an engineer by training,I always envy artists/architects who can draw very well...

I tried to imitate good artists since three years,but alas,my skill never improve.An artist told me he can coach me but I never bother to take lessons from him. I just bought a few books,colour pencils etc and had a go on my own..Lately, the work of Urban Sketchers stirred my interest again.One of the reasons that I sketch is because it posts a big challenge for me who is very weak in drawing and it also a form of 'meditation' for my mind and well as a good exercise for my fingers;-)

As a moleskine fan,I do my sketches in this notebook.

Below are a few sketches I made when I was at Tarbush restaurant,Sun Moulin cafe,Coffee Xpress,Delifrance and Kluang Station restaurants.The last was done at home.

Sqaure root of 2 & 3

During my visit to Islamic Arts Museum today,I saw a set of drawing demonstrating how earlier building designers used and applied the value of square root of 2(Approx 1.414) and 3 (approx 1.732) in getting the correct proportions of the buildings.This is something new to me as an engineer but my fellow architect friends may have a lot of stories to tell about these irrational numbers being applied in architecture.

Another interesting number is Fibonacci constant.Somehow these numbers give beauty to forms and arragement of objects and even in the arragement of leaves.How? I don't know and beyond my my little mind even to think about it.

The exhibition is entitled Divine Inspiration(Ilham Suci).

Another exhibition below it is The Art of Intergration-Islam in Britain by Peter Sanders, a famous muslim photographer.The photos shown are really beautiful.

Note: Image taken from wikipedia.