Wednesday, February 25, 2009

interior house painting











this is a common front door of a common HDB flat. i've used black oil paint to paint the gate & door. i've added some flowers patterns on the door for a unique look b'coz most people don't really do much to their doors as there is nothing much for them to do except changing it. isn't it cheaper & special to have a one & only self designed painted door in ur neighbourhood??next is the big pc of wall in the living room. i've used brown for the repeat patterns design using free hand painting without any pencil sketching. then i've decided to use green for its base but i added some darker green to let the entire picture have better colour contrast. next is the pc of wall behind the plasma tv. alot of people likes to decor the tv wall with lots of items like photo frames or fancy lightings,but it is better to keep the background of the tv set simple so that we can really concentrate on the movies in the tv rather than the wall decors!! i've choose brown then slowly blant into beige colour to match the house furnitures. skills are definitely needed for nice and smooth blanting of 2 colours. then is the small wall in between the 2 bedrooms entrance. i've also used the same idea as the tv wall in order to match up the living room colour. just some simple decoration can be done (DIY) to bring some cozy feel to ur home.next is the bedroom's door, its a very basic plywood door that comes with a standard HDB flat and definitely unattractive. i've painted it to with darkbrown and toned it with some black to give it a natural raw wood finishing look. i've also design it to match with the bedroom's wardrobe's door. its much cheaper and hassle free to paint the door than to changed it!!

then its the most important part of the house, the master bedroom! we spent most of our intimate hours in this cozy little place so u gotta make ur sleep room as comfortable as possible. i've decided to painted the entire background of the bed to a wooden wall finishing and to match its furnitures colours, its simple but yet unique cos most painters do not have this ideas or skill needed to do the job.
lastly to introduce u is the most annoying parts of the house that doesn't look nice in whatever angle... yes,,, its all the sewage pipes and water pipes in the bathrooms and kitchens!! rich people have rich ways that is to construct wooden shelves or artificial cabinets to hide the pipes. its indeed a clever way but it doesn't comes cheap and if anything were to happen to those pipes, and repairs were needed to be done,, u've gotta tear down whatever u've constructed to hide the pipes due to obstruction. hence, i've come up with an idea of painting the pipes beautifully and proudly show it to the guests without much burning to ur pockets.. i've painted the pipes to look like tree trunks and added some twisting and curling plants crawling up the pipes. me myself thinks its a very great and cheap idea that i've come up with...hope u guys share the same thoughts..heehee.

Monday, February 9, 2009

"qian shou guan yin"




on the left is the statue of "qian shou guan yin" thousand hands goddess of mercy. its about 16 inches in height and made of wood. the statue was wholely gold-plated and some parts was broken. i've decided to put on some colours to its skin and re-gold the rest of the statue. its a very tough job due to its many many hands obstructing my movements of my brush. i used about 6 days to finish this project. the owner was very glad with my job. (this is one of my favourites finishing)

guan yin pu sa




on the left is a statue of "guan yin pu sa" made of wood. its about 16 inches in height. it might looks new and ok but the owner just find the statue not attractive and lively enough. i've re-gold plated the statue and changed its skin colours and re-drew its face feature. the owner was very glad with the end product and so was i. compare the pics for differences.

guan yin pu sa





this is another statue of "guan yin pu sa". its about 12 inches in height and its made of granite stone. its very heavy. as seen, the gold portions of the statue have came off due to wrong method of maintainence. the owner also wanted to add some colours to its skin. i've chosen a very light pinkish beige for the statue and added some "swarozki" crystals onto its clothing.

guan yin pu sa



on the left is the statue of "guan yin pu sa" made of copper. its about 9ft tall. its original colour is copper. i've used anti-rust paint as base coating then oil sealer. i've also added some designs of bamboo leaves onto its clothing to brighten up the statue. this project was done in 2002.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

temple jln bahar


this is the statue after my 3 weeks of painting. i've used genuine hong kong gold leaves for some parts and changed much of the origin colours. i've used some very thick fishing line for the strings of the "pi pa" (chinese guitar) if you can see clearly, there are stains all over the face b'cos the chinese believe that all statues of god needs to be "kai guang" as in enlighten so that the soul of god can enter the statue.all the stains you see are human blood from tongue.i coated the statue with special protective varnish for better maintainence in future. (this is one of my favourite project)

temple jln bahar


on the left is a cement sculpture of (the 4 heavenly kings) "si da tien wang". its about the height of 2 adults and was custom design and sculpted in 1999. it was a very very long duration project due to the size of the figuring. in sept.08, they called us back for a repaint job. the sculpture was in quite bad shape when i went there at first, the ventilation was very poor so the smoke of all the incense were being trapped in the temple and thus the sculpture became very black and oily. i nearly can't see any cloured parts initially

temple jln bahar


this is the statue after my 3 weeks of painting. i've used genuine hong kong gold leaves for some parts and changed much of the origin colours. if you can see clearly, there are stains all over the face b'cos the chinese believe that all statues of god needs to be "kai guang" as in enlighten so that the soul of god can enter the statue.all the stains you see are human blood from tongue.i coated the statue with special protective varnish for better maintainence in future. (this is one of my favourite project)

temple jln bahar


on the left is a cement sculpture of (the 4 heavenly kings) "si da tien wang". its about the height of 2 adults and was custom design and sculpted in 1999. it was a very very long duration project due to the size of the figuring. in sept.08, they called us back for a repaint job. the sculpture was in quite bad shape when i went there at first, the ventilation was very poor so the smoke of all the incense were being trapped in the temple and thus the sculpture became very black and oily. i nearly can't see any cloured parts initially

temple jln bahar


this is the statue after my 3 weeks of painting. i've used genuine hong kong gold leaves for some parts and changed much of the origin colours. notice the sword that he is holding, is craved from wood. i've used genuine silver leaves to let the blade shine like stainless steel. (take note that there are no silver/gold paint that can produce this finishing) if you can see clearly, there are stains all over the face b'cos the chinese believe that all statues of god needs to be "kai guang" as in enlighten so that the soul of god can enter the statue.all the stains you see are human blood from tongue.i coated the statue with special protective varnish for better maintainence in future. (this is one of my favourite project)

temple jln bahar


on the left is a cement sculpture of (the 4 heavenly kings) "si da tien wang". its about the height of 2 adults and was custom design and sculpted in 1999. it was a very very long duration project due to the size of the figuring. in sept.08, they called us back for a repaint job. the sculpture was in quite bad shape when i went there at first, the ventilation was very poor so the smoke of all the incense were being trapped in the temple and thus the sculpture became very black and oily. i nearly can't see any cloured parts initially.

temple jln bahar


this is the statue after my 3 weeks of painting. i've used genuine hong kong gold leaves for some parts and changed much of the origin colours. if you can see clearly, there are stains all over the face b'cos the chinese believe that all statues of god needs to be "kai guang" as in enlighten so that the soul of god can enter the statue.all the stains you see are human blood from tongue.i coated the statue with special protective varnish for better maintainence in future. (this is one of my favourite project)

temple jln bahar



on the left is a cement sculpture of (the 4 heavenly kings) "si da tien wang". its about the height of 2 adults and was custom design and sculpted in 1999. it was a very very long duration project due to the size of the figuring. in sept.08, they called us back for a repaint job. the sculpture was in quite bad shape when i went there at first, the ventilation was very poor so the smoke of all the incense were being trapped in the temple and thus the sculpture became very black and oily. i nearly can't see any cloured parts initially.

new ride modification








the 1st pic was shot halfway through its very very long surgery. when i saw my car in this stage, i still couldn't imagine how the end product will turn out to be. i left my vehicle in the workshop for 20 days (initially agreed within 8 days lor!!) i'm very happy with the end product when i 1st saw it as i don't want my ride to be over exeggerated but yet different from others on the road. but 1 issue to complain about is the workmanship of the workshop,especially the paint work. after i took my ride for about 1 week, some cracklines started forming at some of the joining. the workshop agreed to touch up for me and said it will need only 1 day, i'm very afraid that the 1 day might turn into 1 week again...

my new ride modification




this is my new ride , i bought it on jun 08'. i bought this car b'coz i like its boxy outlook and i thought not many people in s'pore will like this type of car then i will be outstanding from the rest on the road..hehe... but,,, i started to see more & more of my car on the road & i don't find mine any different from them. so,,,,i decided to modify its outlook.. this photo was shot before my ride went for surgery.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

temple jln bahar




notice the big fish at the bottom of the pillar, its also custom made from cement sculpture. you can see lots of chinese temples have this type of fish "carps" "li yu" in mandarin as they believe it brings wealth.these sculptures were also made in 2000 and also needed a repaint job. i've changed some colours from the origin and also coated it with special varnish for easy maintainence in future.and i forgot to mention that i've changed its eyeballs from marbles to "swarozki" crystal. cool!!!

temple jln bahar



this is the main entrance of the temple and its the main signboard. its a very famous temple in singapore with lots of devotees. the temple wanted me to do a gold-leaf plating to the three chinese wordings. each character is about 4ft ht & 3ft width. its standing at about 10 meters off ground. look at the shineness of the end product.

temple jln bahar







this pair of dragons were custom design and made of cement sculpture in 2000. its a very complicated design as you can see from the pics, it has got nothing to support the sculpture except extension from the pillar. we need to construct everything accurately in order for them to look identical. the temple called us back for a repaint job in oct 2008. we've used special imported gold paint and coated the entire sculpture with special waterproof varnish for easy maintainence in future.







this is a custom made joss stick incense holder. we started by constructing the skeleton of the structure. as seen in the pic, the initial design is different from end product. initial design was a pair of "qi lin" on each side and a lion head on each of the holder's support. but the customer decided to change to lotus flower design at last minute meeting. the entire holder was handcrafted using cement. we've decided to use this high grade gold paint for finishing to make it glamorous and easy maintanence for the temple caretakers.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

bird cage for "puteh"




this is the bird cage after my many many long hours of touching up. i've used gold leaf to brighten all the fine cravings and also gave the figurings some colour. you can now see much more details of all the cravings on the bird cage. some human figuring's head is not much bigger than the alphabet "O" found on your keyboard!!! just imagine how much concentration i need to put in to draw their eyeballs.... i've spent nearly 10 days on this project and charges him $1200.00. its byfar the smallest figurings i've ever done.





bird cage for "puteh"























on the top is a bird cage for "puteh" birds. its a very fine piece of handcraft. its made from very good wood and got lots of carvings done on to decorate the bird cage. the owner find the details of the carvings aren't very clear b'cos of the 1 tone colour. the owner wants me to touch up the carvings to brighten up the details.the bird cage is just about 2 ft in ht and 1 ft in width.