I have long been inspired by Newspaper Blackout poems, made famous by Austin Kleon. I have read enough of them to see the potential they have to develop your ability to connect words in a different way. Austin uses old newspapers to […]
Of all the places, I found a scrapbook at Qanta’s International airport lounge in Sydney. Not any scrapbook, but The 1950s Scrapbook compiled by Robert Opie. It was interesting to see how far we have come in 70 years. After the rations […]
In Japanese esoteric Buddhist practice, the mandala aids meditation, promoting spiritual awareness and understanding. Albert Yonathan Setyawan is an artist from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia who creates mandalas with slipcasts. Setyawan replaced the five Wisdom Buddhas of the mandala with upper parts […]
I collect travel brochures. I have a box full of brochures from my past travels which I can’t bring myself to throw out. I am particularly attached to the maps because we clung to those while finding our way through unfamiliar cities. […]
For the last ten days, I have been drawing Mater Ping Xiao Po of the movie Kung Fu Panda in the cartoon drawing course I have been doing since August this year. After a week of drawing just circles, we moved on […]
For some time I have been trying to figure out a way to blend my two passions – writing and drawing. I found the above picture in my papers today and was taken over by its beauty. I don’t remember where I […]