Brothers

 

Don’t let a mistake to stop finishing an artwork

Recently I've finished a watercolour painting about a boy in a presentation surrounding by his classmates. I started to paint in a late afternoon when my toddler was sleeping. But I couldn't finish it at that time as my toddler woke up and cried when I had just done a little bit. 

As I hurried to finish a few strokes before being able to tidy up the space, I'd left some mistakes on the paper. I felt very disappointed, and wanted to destroy the unfinished artwork. Fortunately I didn't make a determination to do that.

In the early morning of the next day, I woke up just before the sun rose. As usual , I wanted to find something to paint. I hesitated for a while for whether I should continue yesterday's work, or just throw the paper to a rubbish bin and start a new one. After a thought, I felt it too pity to throw it, or I might just be lazy to start a new one.

Surprisingly, after 1 finished the whole picture, it wasn’t looked that bad as what I thought it would be. It is true that these a mistakes were are still clearly there, but they are not as obvious as before, when the other parts of the picture had have been finished. I showed the picture to the boy whom I was painting.

 "This is me .” He said merrily, “I am doing a presentation at school. But daddy, you’ve made a silly mistake as the white board marker holder in my classroom was is not at that location.” He hasn’t realised the mistakes I meant.

When we judge an artwork, we focus on the whole effect. When we judge a person, we focus on the main characteristic. Don't let a single mistake to stop finishing the whole artwork, just as never allow a mistake to stop what we should live!

A Boy In A Presentation

 

Lullaby Time

 Two day age when I finished work in the late afternoon, my toddler boy was still sleeping. I went to look after him, and by the way I drew him sleeping. As the picture looked to be a bit boring, I applied imagination to draw myself sitting next to him, waving hands to sing lullaby, as what I usually did at night. I showed my picture to other family, but they were all confused about what I was doing.

Lullaby time, what a sweet moment for a little one and his dad! But it is a pity that people can't understand it from my drawing, and that is why I tried a second time. In the early morning of the next day, I couldn't sleep and woke up very early to paint another picture of lullaby time. I got rid of all toys on the bed this time, leaving just me and the little boy, Then I filled the upper space of the paper with a starring night! Then this time they all knew what I was painting and the lullaby was the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

I began to know the power of imagination in painting, as though it is not real it make the real more understandable.

Lullaby Time

 

Sunset in the Park

 

My toddler has become rather tired and sleepy after spending a day in the childcare. In the late afternoon after I finished work, I put him to the pram and push him to have a walk in the park nearby. The sunshine from the waning sun had dropped through the gaps among leaves of trees to the ground. What a beautiful sunset view, with a moving melody of light and shadows. Soon the little child had fallen to sleep.

I pushed the pram back home, put the child to the bed, and later started to paint the sunset view in the park. I've admired art works of Claude Monet at and J. M. W Tuner for a long time. Both of them are among my favourite artists, and had strong capabilities to paint light and shadows. I first drew an orange sun in the middle of the paper. I applied water on the paper, and then slowly applied colours for the sunshine and clouds, allowing the colours flow on the wet paper freely. I dipped a bit of blue pigment for the top of the paper to draw the sky. 

After that, I painted the trees and the ground. I am grateful to live in a location closed to this beautiful park. I have once written a song called The park near home", which is for the park I painted today, and its name is "Burnie Brae Park".

How Do I Compose AUTUMN BREEZE

I started to compore music in the late 2024. At that time I was studying an online course on Udemy about music theory, and had just known the music editing software Musescore Studio. On November when my baby’s birthday was approaching I tried bo write a song for him as a special gift. From them on I continued to write music pieces that most played by flutes or bamboo flutes.

In around April or May of 2025, 1 composed the tune Autumn Breeze. using a lullaby style. It is a small piece of music without lyrics. Imagine that now autumn has come, with its breezes blowing away the heat from summer, shaking the branches of trees, and causing rattling sounds. The rhythms are gentle. But sometimes they are faster cousing some surprising excitments on the pitches, as if a stronger wind bursts out the laughters of children. The tone is warm, as the breezes should be only gently cool. Under the shadow of a big tree, the baby has fallen asleep while listening to the rattles from the leaves.

 Autumn is my favourite season. I like to use it to express something that is precious but doe not last for long. But of course, as a piece of music without lyrics,  everyone can have their own interpretation, and this is the flexibility of the instrumental music.