Tua Pek Gong

Hi All,, its been so long since my last blog update,, sorry.... cos , i've switched my career path to become a full time real estate consultant since April 2011
Thank everybody for the support and interests of my blog. i will still be doing this specialize traditional skill but with a different mentality as a hobby instead. Ok, enough of my stories....

This is the most recent art piece i've just finished restoring, as seen from th 1st pic on the left, this statue has already lost its shine in its colors. This particular "Tua Pek Gong" job was referred by one of my ex client .

As usual,, i cleaned the statue and then paint a layer of base coat oil base sealer to the whole statue,, and of cos,, i got to remove all its beard and accessories before the base coat.

Then step 2 is to re-applying the gold area with genuine gold leaflets, this is the most time consuming process and also requires lots of knowledge and skills in order to achieve the best shiniest result.

Next is to fill in the colored area with water base paint at least 2-3 coats per color. Then followed by decorating the statue with new crystals, beards hat decor. Job done!!!!

guan yin

On the left is the statue of "Guan Yin Buddha" , its about 10 inches in height and is made of wood. Due to long time offerings, the gold has turn blur and the owner wants to refurbish the statue.






This is the statue after my 5 days of refurbishment, you can easily spot the glaring gold leaves coating on the statue with lots of difference especially the shines.

telok blangah temple

this is a very old temple located at telok blangah "tien gong miao"we've been engaged by the temple to construct a series of sculptures, let's start off from the main entrance , we are gonna construct 2 dragons curling around the entrance pillar on each side all the way up to the top of the main entrance with the 2 dragons facing each other. 1st, we need to construct the dragon's skeleton structure using 20mm-40mm iron rods then we weld and covered up the structure with wire mesh. its the most tedious part of the whole project b'cos all we used were some manual tools for us to bend and built up the entire structure.
2nd step is to apply 1st layer of cement onto the constructed iron dragon then followed by 2nd,3rd,4th layer then slowly sculpt the finishing.

drawings/paintings of "tua di ya pek" area

this is the area for our famous "tua ya pek & di ya pek" who are the hell gods. many people recognise them as the black and white. i'm tasked to do a painting of a cave and some bamboos on the 3 sides of the walls, its suppose to be a simple project but because that i will be luminous paint for the drawings, its not as easy as using normal paint( luminous paint is very diluted). i started off by painting the base colour to black in order to create a scary and spooky feel for the area, i started off painting the cave which looks very deep and pitch black going inner, then i starts to draw and paint some bamboos plants. its really very very weird doing this project, as seen in the pics, once i've started painting, all pics i've taken have lots of white translucent poker dots all over the photos....i've been in this trade for so long but this is the 1st encounter which i really can't explain???? ok,,back to work... after drawing bamboos, i've added 4 little ghost in the area (try to find them if u can) then i've also added 2 bats on each corner of the cave (as customer request). lastly, i've added some mist and foggy effect to the entire area,,,this really spooks the whole picture...the finishing of this project was really amazing when we turn on the neon light tube. everything seems so alive due to the luminous paint... (sadly, couldn't even take a single beautiful shot of the lights off effect) the only pic which can be seen on photo is the last pic (which was taken without lights) i'm very satisfied with this project and so were my customers....hope u like it too..;)

tua pek gong

on the left is the statue of "tua pek gong" its about 18 inches in height and its one of the very nicely hand carved statue i've refurbished. i'm tasked to refurbish the "tua pek gong" . 1st step is to clean up the statue and remove all moustache and beard, 2nd step is to apply base coat (oil base sealer) to the statue , 3rd step is to apply special glue (for gold leaf), 4th step to apply genuine top grade hong kong gold leaves, 5th step is to apply all colours and lastly is to attach new beard and moustache for the "tua pek gong". and there u've got a brand new "tua pek gong" statue.

budhha

this is the statue after my 6 days of hard work, i've used top grade hong kong gold leaves for this project. the finishing is very shining and smooth, hopefully it will not corrode again.

budhha

this is the budhha statue made of copper, as seen fromt he picture, some part of the statue turn rusty/corrosion thus parts of the gold leaf done previously came off, in order to ensure not to encounter this problem, i've got to stripped off all gold and paint from the statue to its origin and re-do everything.

bit by bit i scrapped away the exisiting paint from the statue then i de-rust it using sand paper and metal hair brush. after de-rust, i've used a very special type of solution which is called anti corrosion chemical, then after applying 4 times of the chemical, i painted another 2 coatings of oil base sealer to prevent the statue from corrosion again.