Halong Bay # 12 : Mum's Evening Glow - Phong Trinh Drawing

Halong bay is a magnificent sculpture garden in the ocean. Thousand of giant sculptures are scattered in the misty milky bay. Pencil and paper serve as tools to bring island in the bay as a sculpture onto paper. Pure super smooth white of paper, silver metallic grey of graphite to create illusion of shiny metallic white like the sunlight on limestone walls. Deep dark black of charcoal allow lines, forms and shapes at finest details of subject in realism. Visual exploration of the bay beauty, peaceful quiet life as it reveals in the process of drawing was enjoyable. Unique, personal, intimate, purity to take the view from realism to surrealism, undisturbed. In the main shape, I saw a lady head looking away, many faces in the front. In the background, I saw bear, dog. To note the local life style, I included a beach, a forest and a little house as they were. In the foreground was a fishing woman oaring her boat, hence the motion in the water brought forward to create liveliness in contrast with the peaceful water reflection of the main island shape.

Drawing:Pencil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in

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