When I'm not baking......

This reminded me of Chinese painting. But I think one of my bird looked alot like a kingfisher.

watercolour painting is another hobby that I took up this past year. I remember being sent to drawing classes at our local community centre (Lena, do u remember?) with 2 of my siblings and was taught to draw random stuff with crayons, pencils etc.

When we got older, the 3 of us were then promoted to Chinese painting classes which were definitely a whole different way of drawing again. Those were the times we were not even serious about art and were there 'cos our parents think its a good way to stimulate our artist side of our brain. I can recall numerous times of just drawing carelessly and quickly just so to finish my drawing and get out of the class in the shortest time possible. Not so sure if my mum was really proud of our drawings but she did dedicate an entire wall in the living room just to display our paintings.

My very first painting Most recent effort of the same pic

Anyways, I have been doing these watercolour classes with a few mothers from my church and a couple of the art teacher's (Shirley) ex students. Being the only beginner there, my paintings always seem to have a touch of childishness in them or something. But when I compared my most recent painting with my very first, I was pleasantly surprised to realise how much I have improved over the past months. With more confidence in my brush, I decided to paint one especially for my dearest fren, Dorcas, as a congratulatory gift for her first baby. Wanting it to be really perfect, it took me an entire hour to sketch it and another three to paint it.

hope this will bring brighten up her fav room.....

From all my paintings, I think I'm more of a flower painter than anything... A gurl has to love her flowers.