Monday, March 26, 2012

Little Cat Z 蘇斯博士的小貓

Do you remember Dr. Seuss's tale, "The Cat In The Hat?" The Cat in the Hat starts entertaining two kids stuck at home. Soon, that entertainment causes all sorts of trouble. The Cat in the Hat promises to fix everything and he keeps bringing out more "Little Cats A, B, C, D, etc." to help, but every fix causes more trouble! Finally, the Cat in the Hat produces "Little Cat Z," and therein lies the final solution.

We had our own "Cat In The Hat" situation: laundry.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

The "Self-evolving Portrait" 自行一體的畫像


 Mark's been working on a new drawing process. He starts with random shading and adds a little here and there to see what takes shape. Eventually, he gets some idea of "what the image wants to be." Then, he just follows where that leads until the picture is "done."

Here are a couple of examples of what happens when he does this.

Someone asked recently if he could show the progression. Great idea!! (Thanks, Theresa!)

Mark started a new picture and took quick snapshots at random stopping points in the process. Watch the whole thing unfold on the video for "Daniel's Daughter" on our brand new "letsgotakealook" channel on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v4X5SAW8wA

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Tough Guys 硬漢


Ping's view from Thumb Mountain
The weather was good so we decided to hike the Four Beasts(四獸山) on the East side of Taipei (台北). We intended to make the traverse, tagging each of the “beasts” (summits) along the way: Lion, Tiger, Leopard and Elephant. As usual, we ended up doing something different. We skipped “Leopard” and went up 9-5 Mountain (九五峰) instead, bagging Thumb Mountain (拇指山) on the way down, and catching the sunset over Taipei from Elephant Mountain (象山) at the end.

At the trail head, we met a retired pharmacist with a wonderful smile! We chatted and he told us about a few different routes we might like. “I do this every day,” he said.