White, Brown, and Blue Color Scheme

Archways at the City Palace in Jaipur, India

   The ocean, blue skies, clean, white spaces, it's all very summery to me and with Summer coming, I feel inspired by these Summer colors. It's been amazing editing my photo collection and finding those photos that are limited to these two colors. It's like travelling to these places all over again. I can relive those experiences and look through my journals for more information about those experiences.

Jaipur Bloom, watercolor on paper, copyright Nina Leung, 2017

  The little painting above was inspired by the City Palace arches. It's a loose interpretation, like all my other pieces. I like taking little shapes and pieces and colors from each photo. More after the jump......

Travelling with the Figures of the Cyclades

If the Cyclades Figures were a place, it would be............


Naxos, Greece!

 Isn't it beautiful here? I love the stark colors, white, blue, brown, touches of green. There's so much contrast and the bright, summery light even translates on film.

Figures from the Cyclades

My own clay copy of a Cycladic figure.

As it's the last week of August, I must squeeze in one last summer-inspired post. This week, it's the figures of the Cyclades, which is a series of islands in the Aegean Sea. The figures are simple human studies with perfectly beautiful proportions. I've always been fond of them.

Until creating my own rendition of one of these beautiful figures, I believed they were very simple, easily created objects. Boy was I wrong! It was not easy trying to recreate the proportions of these lovely figures. Compare mine to the real thing and notice many differences. The lines of the original are long and symmetrical, the indentations at the elbows and waist are at just the right proportion, the feet are long and have finely carved toes, the head is organic AND geometric. Of course, they carved theirs from stone, so they probably spent more than the 30 minutes I spent on mine!

What a great lesson, though! Copy a sculptural masterpiece and understand exactly why it should be appreciated!