Family

Puah Hui Sze

Pencil, coloured pencils

2003

This piece of artwork is a portrait of my family on a bridge. The background is a blue sky, with white clouds, two birds and an aeroplane. The colour of the sky was coloured lightly using light blue. In the foreground, there is a wooden bridge on the grey pavement. This bridge is actually the one in my uncle’s condominium in Choa Chu Kang. I had some difficulty in drawing the curve of the base of the bridge, thus, the arc drawn was not smooth. The form of the bridge is defined, but the colour is flat, hence, the bridge is more 2-dimensional. The pavement appears to have a rough texture as I coloured the pavement using different amounts of strength, to make darker tones of grey at some parts on the pavement. In the foreground, there is a grass patch and a portion of pond drawn. The grass patch was made up of strokes of various shades of green, giving the effect of solidity. The animals in the pond are engaging in their activities. I drew speech bubbles and thinking bubbles to show even more clearly on what the animals are doing. The animals also appear flat as the colours were untreated and there were no colour gradations.