Category Archives: Illustration

Listen

Posted on February 23, 2024 by pauseability

At a recent workshop I attended, I came across the familiar use of the complex form of the Chinese word listen 聽 (听 in simplied form) to point out some interesting points about active listening. Namely, putting the ear as … Continue reading →

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Picture Books with Seniors

Posted on October 29, 2023 by pauseability

I am currently exploring how good picture books might be used with seniors. The artistry of images and wonderful storytelling, the possibility of both reminiscing and wild imagining together, all points to potential waiting to be tapped in picture books … Continue reading →

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Apps for Videos

Posted on January 30, 2023 by pauseability

Been exploring some apps for creating interesting videos. The first one is using TikTok’s avatar and greenscreen feature. The facial expressions were captured quite vividly don’t you think? https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8UNxwd4/ For the second, I used an avatar created via AvatarCam and … Continue reading →

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Flowers for Mother’s Day

Posted on May 7, 2022 by pauseability

Learnt from listening to the radio that traditionally, for the Chinese, the flower that expresses our love for our mothers is the daylily 忘忧草 or 萱草. The common name 忘忧草 (wang4 you1 cao 3) literally means to forget our worries. … Continue reading →

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Christmas – Lion and Lamb

Posted on December 24, 2021 by pauseability

What you see here was drawn only this morning. Unconventional for Christmas? Normally, you would not be too surprised to see lambs and shepherds since angels did appear to shepherds with the glorious message of Jesus’ birth. But a lion? … Continue reading →

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What Do You Hear?

Posted on May 23, 2021 by pauseability

Created a new TinyTap game about Asian musical instruments. In part, this was to try out TinyTap’s new creation interface which has recently been refreshed after a very long time. very intuitive as before. Tell me what you think.

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Serene

Posted on July 23, 2020 by pauseability

National Gallery Singapore recently had an open call for digital artwork in response to artwork in the national collection for projection during this year’s Gallery Light Up. I was fascinated by Cheong Soo Pieng’s Weaver and wanted to capture the … Continue reading →

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Duan Wu Festival

Posted on June 25, 2020 by pauseability

https://www.tinytap.it/activities/g3pnn/play/duan-wu-festival It started with doodling this morning. This being Duan Wu Festival, I randomly drew this. While I know the legend of Qu Yuan that is the origin of this festival, I realised that I do not know what Duan … Continue reading →

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When is Chinese New Year

Posted on January 20, 2020 by pauseability

It has been a while since I last created a TinyTap story/game. My good friend Ellen Weber asked me to recommend a good book about Chinese New Year and that was the spark I needed. In under 10 hours, here’s … Continue reading →

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Packed Weekend

Posted on September 8, 2019 by pauseability

It is no mere coincidence to be involved in two separate events running over the same weekend and both were held in the same venue. Between 5 to 8 Sep, I was at both the Asian Festival of Children’s Content … Continue reading →

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