today's photos - Green Day

 

little white boat

 

a song I heard when I was a child. I am singing it in Mandarin and playing a baritone ukulele in the clawhammer style. The illustrations are made with gouache paints on an accordion booklet which I have made.

So this song was originally in Korean. The songwriter is Yinke Rong. He wrote it in 1924. It was originally titled Half Moon. In September 1924, Rong's brother-in-law passed away. His sister often looked at the half moon that appeared in the sky during the day, missing her husband. Rong wrote this song to show his sister's grief and loneliness. On the other hand, Korea was under Japanese occupation, and this song was also to show the grief due to the loss of his motherland. 

Here are the lyrics I translated into English: 

In the blue sky in the milk way 

There is a little white boat 

On the boat there is an Osmanthus tree 

And a white rabbit playing 

No oars to be seen 

Nor a sail in sight 

The boat drifts along Into the Western sky 

Crossing over the milky way 

Drifting towards the ocean of clouds 

Passing through those iridescent clouds 

Where to go from here? 

In a place far away Shines a golden light 

The morning star is a lighthouse 

Shines so bright.

Todd and Peaches

 For Todd and Peaches! Inspired by Todd and Peaches, of course!!!

Well, I dunno what Todd and Peaches eat in real life but playing with food is always fun.
And eating them, of course! You get the feeling that Peaches might be the tidier eater here...

A bit of exercising to keep the mind and the body trim and happy. Mr. T the cat can learn a lot from this. Jon and Joo too....

oh, time to go up to the mountains to pick some mushrooms! Since Todd has decided to take his wonky old bicycle, Peaches decided to join him too. I am not sure if that is a good way to go UP a mountain, but Peaches is determined to keep his friend company. Actually, they have friends joining them on the climb. No one goes to the mountains for mushrooms alone, that's for sure!

Todd's YouTube channel is here Todd Andrew Cole - YouTube

and his Etsy shop is here StudWalkerwhirligigs - Etsy Australia

shark boy

 I renamed my clothes peg SHARK BOY.

Here is a song to celebrate the essential, multi-talented Shark Boy.

renaming colours

 

I gave new names to these colours today. With these new names, I made up a song. These are the words of the accompanying song: Here's a message from the bees On a skylark morning Anything is possible When I put on my dancing shoes Bugs' eyes peering through a revolving door A brooch for mum on the tablecloth Yonder lightning flashes in the sky It's gingko summer Book a ticket to Sunnyville Poor weeping willow Let your troubles go like Erik's tumbleweed Stop taming wild hippo This is where my paintings live Mysterious objects like Juliet's eggs Put a tourniquet on my broken skull Grumbly tumbly bear

magic face cream

 You can watch the video i made with these drawings here:

4 ways to live in a square canvas

 well, I gave this challenge to my art students many years ago. 

Try to fit these few things into a painting:

1. a man in a suit that is too small, wears a hat, shoes that are too big, bow-tie optional;

2. a walking stick;

3. a cup, contents unknown;

4. a banana;

5. a green sofa

6. an orange cat.

I made these 4 miniature paintings.

cat on her head

 

if i were a mole in the ground

 some water colours I made for a ukulele cover of the traditional song If I Were A Mole In The Ground.

You can watch the video here! 

Alfred

acrylic on paper, 21 cm x 29.7 cm

and below are the monochrome ones I made in 2014!

acrylic on paper, 21 cm x 29.7 cm

acrylic on paper, 21 cm x 29.7 cm

acrylic on paper, 21 cm x 29.7 cm

acrylic on paper, 21 cm x 29.7 cm

cat fish

Snake Cat

Happy Cat

Tiger Cat

Brush Cat

Black Cat

Superhero Cat

CatFish

drawing my mother

 

2 portraits of my ukulele friends

 

Berni

Rob