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.