Bilateral mandala, 90 x 130mm

Bilateral mandala, biro, 100 x 200mm

Drawing in the shop. Not the Amazon jungle, unfortunately.

watercolour miniature on journal cover, 9x14cm

Obsessing over the complex geometry behind the Islamic Timurid style, with elaborate ‘girih’ or strapwork composed by tiling invisible decagons, pentagons, hexagons, bowties and rhombs into an infinitely varying pattern. Physicist Dr. Peter Lu’s research suggests the mathematical principles behind this pattern predates 20th century discoveries of aperiodic tiling by 500-1000 years!!

sketchbook; playing with aperiodic patterns based on pentagonal symmetry and excessive, frothy gothic illumination spreading like a colony of microorganisms.

Using Adobe Illustrator alone, this is my second attempt at the ink and colour style from The Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden or Jieziyuan Huazhuan 芥子園畫傳. Still perfecting a scalable wood block tone and paper texture…

The reference image totally rocks.

Using Adobe Illustrator alone, this was an attempt at the ink and colour style from The Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden or Jieziyuan Huazhuan 芥子園畫傳. (Ok so the woodblock tone was a cheeky raster addition)

sketchbook, November 23.

Mei Fu, contemplating the moon scattering on water, after becoming too drunk to walk home from a party.