Sunday, March 23, 2008

朋友

昨天与一同学美术的中学同学一块聚餐。我们也已认识了二十出年了吧!说也奇怪,同班也不过只有两年,而自从毕业以后,我们也最多一年见上一两回面,但大家的感情还算蛮好的。当中也有好几位已彼此成立了非常要好的友谊。不需常见面,但一旦见了面,便有谈不完的话题,这就是朋友的定义吧!

当中有许多也已成立了家庭,生儿育女。大家也在不同的领域努力,有的离乡背井,有的还在执著与美术有关的行业,有的则为家人奋斗,各自怀着不同的目标与目的努力生活。也只有在象昨天的那种环境里,大家一同约好停下脚步,歇息一下下,聚一聚。

其实我还蛮珍惜这群好友。回想十几年前吧,我时常在那时祷告,希望这群朋友有一天也会了解与接受耶稣对他们的爱,我恳切地祷告与祈求着,因为我过去的想法很单纯(其实现在也是),只有这样,大家才能做永永远远的朋友。这也是我唯一不敢自私,自己独享的礼物。

今天也以华文书写,因为有一位老同学看到我上周也用华文写我的Blog (布罗格?),数落了我一番,是乎不敢相信我还会用华文书写,这就是我,不肯认输的我。虽写的不好,不过我还是写了!朋友,服了吗?希望有一天你也会和我一同去教堂。我们有约哟!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

感激

已三个月没画画了。也许是工作回家后都已觉得蛮累了,根本提不起劲,头脑似乎也空空的,没有什么灵感。

前几天收到一份包裹,第一眼还以为是好友寄上他们的画展请帖,所以也就没立即打开来看。(朋友,不好意识,当时真的有一点累。)洗澡过后,打开一看,原来是一本几米的书,一本曾听他们问我有没有买的书,如果没有,想送我。我之前也还以为他们是开个玩笑,没想到他们真把书给寄来了,好感动!朋友,谢谢你们,你们旅行还好玩吧!我是蛮喜欢这作者的书,但时常觉得他的书太感伤了。这本道出他的图书的故事来源,我在短短的几天就要看完了。谢谢你们的鼓励,有好朋友真的好幸福。

也因为如此,今天破例,我用华文书写,表示感激。我真的很享受画这些小图画的过程。但也许也已画了快三年,有一点累了,我开始想突破,画出一些能改变人的小图画。我的意识是,我开始贪心了,希望它们能带一点点快乐给悲伤的人,掀起一点点希望给放弃的人,让人看了心理有股温软涌上心头。我没打算改变世界,只希望朋友看了脸上多了个微笑,多了点勇气,这就是我的私心。也许也就因为这样,我开始想认真的改进我上色的方法,并认真的想想自己应该如何继续。

I finally touched my paintbrush again today, and finally painted one of my sketches that I did months ago. I really enjoyed the process, thanks, friends, the "book" encouraged me to pick up the paintbrush to paint again. And yes, I will not be posting much work these days, I am thankful to Daddy God, that this blog has started me drawing again for the last 3 years. Many sweet memories evoked in the process, and many of the works posted here have been my practicing ground, as means for me to improve and experiment. I enjoyed this blog, and enjoyed drawing for this blog, however, it has come to a point that you may hardly see new work now, not that I have stopped drawing, no worries, I will continue, because this is what I love to do, but I hope to keep them to myself first, maybe occasionally will share some here.

The above will mark almost the last artwork for this blog for the meantime. A piece that I greatly loved, but I wished I did it with shadow effect to express the depth I wanted to create, may touch up someday. This is one piece that I did not actually want to publish, but think it is good to end with a favourite, so here it goes. I think I will still continue writing though. Cheers. Jesus loves us!