SINGAPORE GARDEN FESTIVAL 2012

This year's Singapore Garden Festival, held at Suntec City Convention Hall as always. I went on a weekday with my mom, she had been nagging since the previous week but Saturday was predictably too crowded to enjoy anything so we made it on a Tuesday. Less human traffic and the flowers aren't too dead yet. The theme was fairytales with elves and Alice in wonderland type creatures. Those frogs.... I've seen them in Toad Hall. They are on the mantle-clock above Toad's fireplace lol. Love that 1980s Wind in the Willows animation.

 

 

 

Diorama.

 

This was inspired by the aurora borealis.

An entry from Sweden. Pretty colours.

  Phalaenopsis

Finally someone from Indonesia did a kaleidoscope theme!

Ooh mesmerising... if only it wasn't crowded I would stand there longer.

Seven dwarves off to mining across the bridge. You can't see it here though.

Faux cave structure, with jungle soundtrack no less.

Zen Garden

SHOUJO COLORING PAGES DIGITAL STAMPS

My second series of digi colouring pages, Shoujo retro style! I like the older shoujo stuff. They can be purchased individually or as a set in my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lemonshortbread?section_id=11701773
 

It prints out nice and clear on 8.5x11 or A4 sized paper! I might be rolling out more in a bit, but for now a paper doll set is in the works.

LOCAL MAGAZINE FEATURE

My vintage & retro jewellery shop is featured in the july issue of NEXT by NTUC media,  many thanks to Rachel Chan! This is a great timing too, because my shop is 5 this month! The lady up there is not me but one of my regular customers wearing a handmade skeleton lolita necklace, coincidentally she lives just down the street from me and is an artist too. Meanwhile yes I am still making art =)

SWEET LOLITA COLOURING PAGES

I have introduced colouring pages to my shop and these work as digi stamps too if you like! They came about while I was sorting my old personal items and found these really nostalgic 1980s Japanese coloring books (a present from my dad which was rare) and shoujo paper dolls that had accompanied me since childhood. One of my favourite past times was tracing them over and over!

Perhaps I was too inspired by the frills and puffy skirts, so decided to design a series of Gothic Lolitas colouring books. First up are the Sweet Lolitas, I hope these will be fun to colour for both adult and children. The genre and sub-genre of the various Lolitas are a Japanese fashion lifestyle inspired by Rococo, Victorian, Edwardian and gothic elements, usually cute and conservative looking. I think the word 'lolita' was used just because it sounded cute.

There will be more colouring pages coming up. The images are all high res and can be purchased individually if you don't want to buy a set, and will print out nicely on 8.5x11 inches paper or A4.

More details on the Sweet Lolita series one can be viewed here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/102410324/sweet-lolita-coloring-pages-set-of-3

CHAMELEON GARDENS - PAINTING

My latest painting which took a while, this is the largest acrylic painting I have done so far, though still a modest 25 x 35cm. I had laid it aside for some time to complete other projects on hand, and decided to place more effort in detailing the background but didn't want to overpower the main character yet have a camouflage theme.

There were several changes on the colours of the dots on the chameleons and as you can see it has quite a buildup of paint. Which is might as well, because you can feel the texture now!

 

The sides are painted too which features even more details, the right side has the chameleon's body and the left side (not shown) has some plant details.

The original painting is available in my Etsy shop: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/101946114/original-pop-surrealism-canvas-painting