1996 Calendar Illustration

These are two illustrations for the korean calendar.

I used 1960~70's korean life style as a theme and created images using acrylic paints and color pencils.

Stumps

It was my first class at the college in 1993: professor Kyung-hwan Choi at Seoul Women's University (where I studied painting in my undergraduate), gave the class an assignment: 'Go outside and find what inspires you'. I walked around the campus and... saw a chopped down stump, all burnt outside... YET there were a few tweaks coming out from a crack at the bottom, holding very tiny yet fresh green leaves..., which had given me the strongest impression of 'Hope'...

Deer series_part2: Bambi?

I created this painting as a gift for my sister. I don't remember when I made this painting, probably a couple of years after the previous deer painting. I don't think that there was any connection between these two, except that I liked drawing & painting animals. 

I think that I got a sketch from somewhere, (maybe from one of Bambi images?) and made a watercolor painting out of it. My dogs, 'Pyodoc' & 'Mangchi' scratched the bottom parts off. Perhaps they were trying to catch the squirrel?

Deer series_part1, 1990

There was an amusement park right next to my high school that had a small zoo, where I visited as often as I could. 

This painting was done when I was in high school. I tried to experiment various painting techniques... such as spread out coarse salts over sections of the foliage before watercolor dried out, so that there are sprinkled patterns on the treetops and grass, which, unfortunately, doesn't show much in this small picture. This painting is quite big, approx. 40 inch wide, and 60~70 inch tall. I think that my parents still have it somewhere in their garage ... Hopefully there are no mushrooms and fungus growing on the trees now...