First time trying watercolour. I find it very satisfying with the ease to control over the texture.
Sunset watercolour
Practice on Watercolour
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Flying to Italy
Hi All,
I will be flying to Italy for 3 weeks, so I will stop any painting work for 3 weeks.
However I will post on my trip to Vienna last year for the coming three Fridays.
I hope the art in Italy will be able to shape my artwork further. I still lack the consistency of quality and I can’t do much without the reference of another painting.
Please drop by inkitt.com to read my on-going fantasy novel.
Please like my facebook page: Paulus of Sinae
I will keep the facebook page updated with photos for my Italy trip.
Thanks!
Paulus of Sinae
Don Juan, the dog
Growing up in between
II Don Juan, the dog
The landlord used to keep a mutt. Perhaps “keeping” was not the right word. The mutt just appeared in front of the lobby of the building every morning. The landlord would give him a bowl of leftover for breakfast, and then the mutt would disappear until the next day morning.
One day, Alexei’s mother suggested to follow the mutt and see what he was doing after breakfast.
That morning they became the stalking detectives.
The mutt first stopped by a tiny park (probably of just 8 sq meters) in the urban centre of Hong Kong. Within the bushes, came several tiny puppies and another big female mutt.
“So he was meeting his family,” the mother said to Alexei.
The two detectives continued their stalking.
Upon every traffic light, the mutt would sit down and wait for the green light to cross. He also stopped by a number of different spots, at which at least one female dog was waiting.
Occasionally, he would stop by restaurants.
One of the restaurants was an Italian restaurant, just like which in Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp”, though he didn’t bring one of his girlfriends for the fancy meal.
At the end of the day, the two detectives concluded that the mutt was the Don Juan of his kind.
However, a few months later, the mutt no longer came.
Was he dead? Had he found a new home? Or perhaps he was sick of the cheap leftovers?
Alexei could not tell.
Maybe the mutt, like every Hong Kong people, was also lost in the urban jungle.
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A City in a Mask
Colours in disarray.
And I see the city bleeding black.
This false sight of colourful life
Within the mask of fog sagging down in the city hive.
Gold and neon lights,
Just a hollow maze of night.
We end our past dreams.
We fool our minds.
The trick to us into believing,
Unto a life we trust to be the ideal yet deceiving.
And we toil and forget.
Dissolved us on to the grand canvas with our own sweat.
No longer we own our discrete spectrum.
All spectra of colours bleed into the corrupted red;
Unto the smear of blood on those pair of lost lips.
©Paulus of Sinae April 2016
Bored, so a practice on Apple
“Along the Mystic River” by Edward Potthast
The Sea of Mercury
A blessed gold reached out to my gaze.
A dreamt paradise settled in my heart.
Hark! The silvery wooing waves!
And may we all drown in this poisonous mercury.
The physical book of the Otter
Feels so good to hold them with my own hands
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sea-Otter-Pup-Mother/dp/1494997711/
Formatting for picture books in Amazon self publishing.
Dear Frds,
Since someone asked me about the formatting of my picture book. Here is a tutorial to do that:
It’s very simple. First you need to open notepad. Then paste these codes:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type=”text/css”>
p { text-indent: 0px; margin-bottom: 1ex; }
.p_ctr { text-align: center; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img src=”page0.jpg” width=”100%” /> #use the SAME name as the image you are using
<p>Paste the text here.</p> #here you can type in the text you want
<mbp:pagebreak /> #opening up a new page
<img src=”page1.jpg” width=”100%” /> #2nd page
<mbp:pagebreak />
</body>
</html>
So you only need to amend these codes to suit your needs:
<img src=”page1.jpg” width=”100%” />
<p></p>
<mbp:pagebreak />
Repeat this block for more pages.
After that save the file as HTML, not TXT.
Remember you have to put the images and the html file within the SAME FOLDER.
You can submit the html file directly, as far as I remember. Or you can try to use the previewer to generate a mobi file first. Then upload it.
These codes were not originally created by me, I just fine tuned them a bit. I saw them on some other websites. Yet I can’t remember where. If you know where these come from, please tell me and I can quote the source.
Happy writing,
Paulus of Sinae
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