Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve :)

It's 7:30am, and it's the last week of the June hols!

Everyone's asleep,

while Wei Peng (friend :D), her dad and I made a trip down to Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve.

Saw quite a few birds and other animals, but I wasn't able to capture them as they were too far for my ordinary camera to catch...T.T

Sigh...if only I had a dxlr......

Anyway, here are some photos I took:

seemed too perfect to be true; the trees 'trimed' to enclose this pictureque scene.
if only I could live in that house across the lake, and be greeted by cicadas every morning...

shadows of tree vines; the mangrove trees are planted rather close together...

Thought this was quite a cool sequence of photos showing the spider catch it's prey...

Spider web hanging in mid-air. morning sunlight shines through, reflected off the web...vola, a pretty clear web among the tree branches. Like a thumbprint of spun by the spider to mark its territory.

Personally, I love this photo the most <3 depicts the tracks of the kodomo dragon (the long continuous tracks across the mud) if you're wondering, the other small tracks dotted all over the mud belongs to tiny crabs. Lovely :)

 

more tracks... (a creature with a tail)
[**pls comment if you know which animal made this]

Sunlight and shadows on the tree trunks balances rather well with each other:)
The green leaves around the tree creates a very 'close-to-nature' environment. Then again, nothing beats heading down to experience nature yourself!

the gradual disappearance of the ariel roots into the distance. cool...

The only lucky fella who was close enough to be captured on my camera. This friendly guy was lazing in the sun, sun-bathing. Didn't notice me standing behind I suppose.

Close-up of wild berries of some random tree...

Yup, the mud was 'infested' with protrusions of aerial roots of the mangrove trees. It was great knowing that we won't have to head down that path and suffer the poking of the roots and the gooey mud...
But come to think about it again...
it would be fun sinking into the goo, wouldn't it?

Not a very clear photo, but look closely and you will be able to spot the mudskipping lying on a rock. 

cute:)))

 

found this log very interesting, with holes and stuff.

will be heading down to pulau semakau in August...

at 5am in the morning to catch the low tide...

can't wait :DD

will borrow a camera from the aesthetics department this time...

Coursework (in progress) ;D

Tracing my progress on the 1.5m x 2.4m canvas...

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6:

Work in detail:

1. Really thick paint: when I say really thick paint, I mean really thick paint -> I've already used up 3 tubes of oil paint...and it's not done yet...(sry peeps who don't have paint to use...) :P
2. Straight from the paint tubes -> no turpentine or thinner, fresh paint on canvas --- impasto
3. Just slab on e paint :D : had the orignal photo beside me, but I didn't really refer to it, just went along with my instincts. While some browns were mixed on the palette, most were mixed directly on the canvas.

1+2+3 = FUN :DD

once I stayed in the art room from morning (~9:30am) to late afternoon (~5pm),

survived solely on breakfast [and painting]

didn't realise the time until I looked up from the canvas and saw the clock,

That was when my stomach (which was strangely quiet the whole day),

started growling like crazy and I had to stop...

Painting is addictive <3