Angkor in Arizona??

The title is a bit mixed-up, isn't it? Angkor Wat in Arizona?
Reason is that I loved the red, orange and yellow sunset hues of the Arizona desert, but to paint sad-looking measely cactus seems a bit pathetic. So I "imported" some Angkor temples into my Arizona sunset. Heheheh. This was just recently completed in August 2010.
What should I call this piece?

Red Sunset
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My camera skills need a whole lot of improvement.... donno why the colours of the two paintings differ... must be the LIGHTING as one is hung in the East of the wall, and the other - the West! Nope. They are not together as seen here.

The Chinese T-Shirt!

Earlier this year, I had bought a Christie's Auction book on Chinese Imperial Costumes at a bazaar. I had found the colourful and intricate embroderies beautiful, and decided that I should paint one. When my boys saw my painting, they exclaimed "Hey! Mom's painted a Chinese T-Shirt", so this is what I have decided to call this piece. If I am not mistaken, painting was completed sometime in June 2010.

The Chinese T-Shirt
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I should have used a bigger piece of canvas, but was too lazy to go all the way to the Art Supply shop... GOSH! The traffic jam is enough to put me off from painting!

My Boys

After completing The Hunk, I was gonna paint another gorgeous half-naked body of a hunk. But thought "What would my boys think??" ...so I had a change of mind and decided to paint my boys instead.

This is finished....YET NOT really finished. Though I can see my children, somehow, my S1 looks older here than he should. But I really don't know what else to do to improve the painting.... so temporary first lah...

My Boys
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The Hunk

Noticed that I haven't posted since December 2009. It's not that I have stopped painting. It's just that I've been lazy posting. If I am not mistaken, I finished this piece in early February 2010. Don't you think he is soooooooooooooooooooo gorgeous?

The Hunk
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When I was painting this, my boys were afraid that their dad would be jealous that I painted a man other than their dad, and thus was critisizing the painting like no tomorrow. When I told my H about his boys, H proceeded to pose like The Hunk above and said "told you that you should use me as the model instead!" . Hahhahahahahah

BTW, this is a Bollywood star. Can't remember his name though.

Snooty

Painted this for one of my 'ole friends, CC. She's a cat-lover and wanted a snobish-looking cat... So here it is.

Snooty
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Completed - 7 December 2009

"Ang Ang Tai Kiat"

This piece of painting started off with being ALL RED. As in I painted the background first.....which is NOT the norm. Usually, the background is the LAST to go on. I wanted something RED. Thus the title of the painting. Hokkiens will understand what it means. Basically, the English translation loosely means "Red Red Prosperous" (I think).The Chinese lady was an after-thought. :-)

"Ang Ang Tai Kiat"
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Size = 80 cm x 120 cm

I managed to complete this last Monday, despite of my aching arm... Actually, I totally forgot that my arm was aching whilst painting. I was totally immersed in the task!

Doors to a New Day...

The subject in this painting was also kinda ad-hoc. I had just finished The Kiss, and had brought a odd-sized canvas to my painting class. Again, I had NO IDEA what to paint, and my odd-sized canvas did NOT help. A classmate had 'left' one of her new canvas and since she did not attend class that day, I HIJACKED her canvas. Hahahhahaha
Even then, I still didn't know what to paint. As I had my GREEK ISLANDS calendar (the source of Santorini is from here), my classmates chose this for me....

I know the title sounds abit weird/lame... but how to word it? I know the morning sun is shining on those doors....

Doors to a New Day

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Size = 70 cm x 90 cm

This painting was completed in quite a short time... all in all perhaps about 5 hours. My art teacher says my style is more impression/expression....as I am not really a detail detail person. Plus he says I am more at ease with this style... And I agree.