'RAINY CLOUDS NEVER STAY' PAINTING

"Rainy Clouds Never Stay"

Acrylic on canvas, the title is borrowed from The Brilliant Green's song 'Rainy Days Never Stay'. There's quite a number of paint layers on this because it was line-background-line-background over and over till the lines appeared neat enough. This painting is also included in the Bear & Bird group art show 2 posts below.

GIRL + PET PAINTINGS

'Walking the Blue Dog'.

This is one of the acrylic paintings on canvas that will be featured in the art show I blogged about in my last post. It's pretty straightforward - walk your dog and bring a poopie bag.

'Suzy and Alistair', a smaller sized painting than 'Walking the Blue Dog'. There was a bit of a mishap while varnishing - there's some specks of dust sealed in so I didn't want to display or sell it. I got the kitty's face from Fuman:

Aka 'Big Boss'

GROUP ART SHOW AT BEAR & BIRD'S

Am participating in a group art show 'Small Stuff 4' which will open on Nov 21st. There's gonna be food, music and lots of beautiful small-sized original art by local & international artists on the launch day party. Best of all the artworks are priced to sell, because this show is held specially for the Christmas gift-giving season! Don't forget to drop by if you're close! The artworks can also be bought online from their website.

Address:

Bear and Bird Boutique Gallery

4566 North University Drive

Lauderhill, Florida

http://www.bearandbird.com/

Will share the 5 paintings I made specially for the show on my next blogpost perhaps.

WET DAY AT HUNTINGTON GARDENS

Huntington Library Gardens in early Oct. It rained unexpectedly so we stayed in the museums and looked at art instead of wandering outside.

Spiderweb in a tree.

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Rainy and foggy. You can see some spiderwebs in the background.

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Wet shamrock closeups.

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French style rooms with nice chandeliers and ornate tapestry.

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I uploaded these in larger resolutions for better viewing. Interesting biological drawings in the 1500s.

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Unicorns and manimals!

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I love this but forgot to take down the name of the artist.

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Gestation #2 by Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 1963

Synchronism abstract art.

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POTATO SALAD RECIPE

Oh wow it's been that long lol I meant to blog since last year and now I'm back deciding to post a simple little recipe and found 800 comments to be moderated (!) and in the first place I forgot moderation mode is turned on lol so now sifting through 95% of nonsense spam.

Anyhow since my last post complaining about not being able to see the Leonids meteor shower in Singapore, I finally managed to catch my first meteor shower - the Geminids - at end-2009. It was awesome!! A year late to blog about being excited, and whine that my toes became too painful to bear (ala almost frostbite mode).. SO, anyways we went up dark Mount Baldy in California at about 1-4am, drove right to where the car couldn't drive up anymore. Awesome. I wish I had a camera to capture the celestial event.

Here's a recipe I found online with a bit of my own tweaks.

Potato Salad - Japanese style

4 medium potatoes (I used brastagi)

½ cucumber (thinly sliced)

½ medium onion (diced, then soaked in water)

½ carrot (diced)

½ red capsicum (bell peppers) - optional

2 boiled eggs - optional

2 pcs picnic ham

2 tsp butter (or according to taste)

a sprinkle of black grounded pepper

½ tsp salt

lemon juice from ½ lemon

3-4 tbsp Kewpie mayonnaise (or according to taste)

After boiling & peeling the potatoes, add lemon juice, salt, and butter into the still hot potatoes and mash it. This style is all smashed with crunchy vege rather than the chunky wet style so you can scoop it with an ice-cream scoop. Let to cool a bit, drain the onions, add onions and the chopped vege & ham into the mix. Pepper it, then add the mayo, mix well. Keep in fridge to let it sit and serve after maybe 2 hours. In my photo I used a lettuce leaf as a base, with more yummy mayo as decoration since I added less than 3 tbsp of mayo in my mix. You can substitute butter for olive oil, and lemon juice for white vinegar. But the mayo has to be Kewpie if you want it to taste japanese. Or Ajinomoto if you can't find Kewpie. If you try this and it's nice please let me know. I find it alright but my mom didn't lol.