Piclits *3*

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Theme : Seeing is Believing.

You see, I see,
Do you see, what I saw,
Do you see, a man
Do you see, a woman
Do you see, what I saw.

Piclits *2*

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Theme: Sharing territory

Snake, crocodile, lizard, iguana, all are reptitles, creepy and scary,
Crown fish, dolphin, shark, stingray, all are animals, living in sea,
Living together, for better for worse, each share each strength.

Vincent van Gogh

Bio Data of Vincent Willem van Gogh

Birth name: Vincent Willem van Gogh

Born : 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands

Died : 29 July 1890 (aged 37)
Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Nationality: Dutch

Field : Painter

Movement : Post-impressionism

Works : The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Irises,
Portrait of Dr. Gachet


Title Deutsch: Stilleben mit 12 Sonnenblumen
English: Vase with 12 sunflowers
Year 1888(1888)
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 91 × 72 cm (35.83 × 28.35 in)
Current location Deutsch: Neue Pinakothek

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 gives the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted décoration he prepared for the guestroom of his Yellow House where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure, Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.

As Van Gogh anticipated in 1889, the Sunflowers finally became his, and served — combined with self-portraits — as his artistical arms and alter ego up to the present day: no retrospective Van Gogh exhibition since 1901 voluntarily missed including them, and a wealth of forgeries as well as record-setting price paid at auction acknowledges their public success: Perhaps, because Van Gogh's Sunflowers are more than his or him — they may be considered, as Gauguin put it, the flower.

In January 1889, when Van Gogh had just finished the first repetitions of the Berceuse and the Sunflowers pendants, he told his brother Theo: I picture to myself these same canvases between those of the sunflowers, which would thus form torches or candelabra beside them, the same size, and so the whole would be composed of seven or nine canvases.[11] A definite hint for the arrangement of the triptych is supplied by Van Gogh's sketch in a letter of July 1889.[12]

Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude
Van Gogh began painting in late summer 1888 and continued into the following year. One went to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom. The paintings show sunflowers in all stages of life, from full bloom to withering. The paintings were considered innovative for their use of the yellow spectrum, partly because newly invented pigments made new colours possible.

In a letter to his brother Theo,[13] Van Gogh wrote:

"It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it. Besides, you know, Gauguin likes them extraordinarily. He said to me among other things - 'That...it's...the flower.' You know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own."

A Brief Understanding of the Sunflower Paintings.


Upon looking at these paintings one begins to notice aspects that seem to flow
from one piece to another. The colors are vibrant and express emotions typically associated with the life of sunflowers: bright yellows of the full bloom to arid browns of wilting and death; all of the stages woven through these polar opposites are presented. Perhaps this very technique is what draws one into the painting; the fulfillment of seeing all angles of the spectrum of life and in turn reaching a deeper understanding of how all living things are tied together.

There are many pieces within this series of paintings (each is clearly identifiable as a Van Gogh work) in which there are only minor differences that separate them.

Side by side

Running anxiously towards mummy, "Mummy look what I got, a rainbow lollipop, so sweet and yummmy".

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Theme : Lost of Friendship

*Love can brings sometimes the loss of friendship as our life changes, as we grew older and drifted apart from those we know and binded with. Through our life circle, we then get to know new friends, that too will sometimes... get lost.*

Sumopainting - Peaceful Village

Wow.... how amazing..... can also do it online... I just love it.

From the woods, I am standing looking out, towards the beautiful village. Wonderful day, with birds flying around. Flowers growing beautifully from the meadow. Abundance greenery, tree growing strongly.

My 1st creation in PicLits.com

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Many flashes came into my mind, with this picture :

. Child waiting for parents to come home,
. Child was punished and am very annoyed,
. Child angried with his friends,
. Child was amazed by the drawing in the sand,
. Child was sad because he did not get what he wanted.

Draw a Person

It has been a long time I really took up my sketch book to draw. Here I drew a lady with long hair, wearing a dress, and holding a basket of small flowers. She also had a love shape pendant around her neck.

There was a pleasant breeze, can be seen here her skirt is swaying softly. She also wore flat shoe, must have to walk a distance. Where is she going, I wonder.

Type of study :Art therapy applied to an adolescent with Asperger's Syndrome (continuation)

CONCLUSION:

After the course of 7 months that Emma engaged in art therapy, resulting -
. increasingly more communicative
. insights into her diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome
. comfortable in communicating
. able to discuss and make plans for the future
. developing and incorporating new coping strategies
. more useful on her social skills
. became increasingly involved with her peers at school
. able to discussed and sought out post secondary information, application
. completion resulted in an acceptance.

Advantages of art therapy for Emma -
. benefited greatly from the multi-sensory immersion from her narrower world into the larger broader world that suurounds her
. opend new avenues and channels of communication fro her to utilize
. nonverbal communication is created into a tangible form, enchancing the therapeutic process to address the presenting problem
. gain insight into her personal struggle
. able to incorporated them into her identity, changing her presceptis and behaviors

With all the advantages of the art therapy for Emma, but there are also limitation, that she need to leave for college and disengage from the therapeutic relationship and its support system, there was no longer be any availablility to guide Emma while she transitioned into her new academic and social environment.

My Reflection:
Can't wait to try on some of my little friends using all the above to method, especially with 1 who is autistic who are so scared to lift up her head to look at the expression of others. The Mirror and tile design will help her a lot, but am not sure that she can comply as she does not have much verbal. But, I will wait for the right opportunity to try, though.

The day I will celebrate will be that day she lift up her head and open her eyes willingly to look at me....