Bamboozled

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Christine Davies 19 Apr 2014 08:04 Seok, this is fantastic, I love it! The background compliments your wonderful collaged panda perfectly and is so much more interesting than the usual bamboo. Love the little red hearts too!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sat 19 Apr 09:50:11

Carole Swingler 19 Apr 2014 09:00 Really lovely to look at Seok, love the combination of media and textures. Little hearts~~ love the panda!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sat 19 Apr 09:50:38

She is gorgeous Seok! I love the way you have created the background without taking the viewer's eye away from the panda. Everything works beautifully together giving us a happy and joyful painting to look at.

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Sat 19 Apr 12:53:42

Wonderful work Seok, you amaze me with your creativity. Any mediums you excel in.

Posted by Glennis Weston on Sat 19 Apr 13:26:21

Amazing work Seok! I like the mixed media approach and the lovely panda :)

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Sat 19 Apr 15:06:17

Very cleverly done, and what's more important, very effective too.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sat 19 Apr 15:58:04

It's been said. Superb use of everything. It just works so well. Very imaginative.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 19 Apr 16:48:53

What a completely different approach, Seok. You can do everything, it is always a success!!!!

Posted by Mia Ketels on Sat 19 Apr 21:51:06

Thanks so very much, everyone!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sun 20 Apr 02:42:13

Very, very effective Seok!

Posted by Louise Naimian on Sun 20 Apr 11:35:07

Thanks very much, Louise!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sun 20 Apr 16:04:42

Delightful! Cant help but smile.

Posted by Helen Evans on Sun 20 Apr 21:07:18

outstanding work Seok as always, this Panda has been captured by you so perfectly it is totally believable, with great light on it as well, and the decorative wrapping paper you used as part of the collage aspect of it, in place of the bamboo, was an inspired addition, it looks totally realistic as well

Posted by Ros Patterson on Sun 20 Apr 22:30:48

This is wonderful, Seok. You have achieved all the right shapes and injected such wonderful colours into this painted collage. Superb work.

Posted by Thea Cable on Mon 21 Apr 23:27:31

Thanks very much, Helen, Ros and Thea!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Tue 22 Apr 11:06:37

Oh this really jumped off the gallery page, I love it. Edinburgh zoo are keeping their fingers crossed for an addition to their pandas on loan from China. Tian Tian has been artificially inseminated so hopes are high after disappointment last year.

Posted by Val Kenyon on Tue 22 Apr 18:11:52

Such an original approach and one that works so well. I love the oriental feeling about it.

Posted by Avril Soldani on Sat 26 Apr 13:12:32

I must have missed this one, brilliant!

Posted by Fred Elwell on Fri 02 May 15:57:52

Thanks so very much, Val, Avril and Fred!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Fri 02 May 16:24:27

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13/04/2015

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Jia Jia, the female panda on loan to the Singapore Zoo. I didn't want to create a scene of a panda with the ubiquitous bamboo grove, so I used some gift-wrapping paper, with a chinoiserie flower design, which I'd bought years ago but never used, to create the background foliage. Hence the title. Mixed Media Work using Liquid Acrylic, Collage and Fibre Paste. Christine and Carole, thank you very much for your comments. I deleted my original posting as I realized I'd forgotten to add a dark line defining the panda's mouth!

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