posts tagged: Hong Yi

Hong Yi (Malaysia/China) - Wei Wei Who (2011) The artist without a paintbrush as she calls herself, Hong Yi aka Red, is a Sabah-born artist-architect working in Shanghai. She has caught the public eye with her unique large scale artwork, starting with the portrait of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds: I was inspired last weekend to do a portrait of Weiwei. Initially the idea was to just do a small A4 sized portrait of him, but then I thought I’d bring my materials out to the little lanes of my longtang and do a portrait of him in public…what an attention-seeker, huh? But Ai Weiwei does that too! Oh, guess what medium I used? No, not paint - that’s so BOH-RING! - I collected 100,000/7kgs of sunflower seeds, and this is what I did. [more Hong Yi | artist found at prostheticknowledge & devidsketchbook] Hong Yi (Malaysia/China) - Wei Wei Who (2011) The artist without a paintbrush as she calls herself, Hong Yi aka Red, is a Sabah-born artist-architect working in Shanghai. She has caught the public eye with her unique large scale artwork, starting with the portrait of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds: I was inspired last weekend to do a portrait of Weiwei. Initially the idea was to just do a small A4 sized portrait of him, but then I thought I’d bring my materials out to the little lanes of my longtang and do a portrait of him in public…what an attention-seeker, huh? But Ai Weiwei does that too! Oh, guess what medium I used? No, not paint - that’s so BOH-RING! - I collected 100,000/7kgs of sunflower seeds, and this is what I did. [more Hong Yi | artist found at prostheticknowledge & devidsketchbook] Hong Yi (Malaysia/China) - Wei Wei Who (2011) The artist without a paintbrush as she calls herself, Hong Yi aka Red, is a Sabah-born artist-architect working in Shanghai. She has caught the public eye with her unique large scale artwork, starting with the portrait of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds: I was inspired last weekend to do a portrait of Weiwei. Initially the idea was to just do a small A4 sized portrait of him, but then I thought I’d bring my materials out to the little lanes of my longtang and do a portrait of him in public…what an attention-seeker, huh? But Ai Weiwei does that too! Oh, guess what medium I used? No, not paint - that’s so BOH-RING! - I collected 100,000/7kgs of sunflower seeds, and this is what I did. [more Hong Yi | artist found at prostheticknowledge & devidsketchbook] Hong Yi (Malaysia/China) - Wei Wei Who (2011) The artist without a paintbrush as she calls herself, Hong Yi aka Red, is a Sabah-born artist-architect working in Shanghai. She has caught the public eye with her unique large scale artwork, starting with the portrait of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds: I was inspired last weekend to do a portrait of Weiwei. Initially the idea was to just do a small A4 sized portrait of him, but then I thought I’d bring my materials out to the little lanes of my longtang and do a portrait of him in public…what an attention-seeker, huh? But Ai Weiwei does that too! Oh, guess what medium I used? No, not paint - that’s so BOH-RING! - I collected 100,000/7kgs of sunflower seeds, and this is what I did. [more Hong Yi | artist found at prostheticknowledge & devidsketchbook]
Hong Yi - Painting with basketball - Yao Ming portrait (2012) view video Hong Yi - Painting with basketball - Yao Ming portrait (2012) view video
Hong Yi - Zhang Yimou portrait. Made of bamboo sticks, pins and socks (2012) view video Hong Yi - Zhang Yimou portrait. Made of bamboo sticks, pins and socks (2012) view video Hong Yi - Zhang Yimou portrait. Made of bamboo sticks, pins and socks (2012) view video Hong Yi - Zhang Yimou portrait. Made of bamboo sticks, pins and socks (2012) view video
Hong Yi - Mark Zuckerberg Facebook portrait (2012) view video [found at devidsketchbook & faithistorment] Hong Yi - Mark Zuckerberg Facebook portrait (2012) view video [found at devidsketchbook & faithistorment] Hong Yi - Mark Zuckerberg Facebook portrait (2012) view video [found at devidsketchbook & faithistorment]
Hong Yi - Jay Chou Coffee Stain Portrait (2012) view video Artist Hong Yi aka Red who practices painting without a tradtional brush creates a portrait using coffee cup stains: This project was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou’s song, ‘Secret/不能说的秘密’. The opening line is about lifting a coffee cup off the saucer, “冷咖啡离开了杯垫” . The ending line of the song is about autumn leaves and fragmented pieces, “飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片, 要我怎么捡?”. Hundreds of individual coffee stain rings, many of them broken and imperfect like fallen autumn leaves, form a whole portrait. The project took about 12 hours to finish. Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use - too little water and the rings wouldn’t form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. I had to also wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible. [found at prostheticknowledge] Hong Yi - Jay Chou Coffee Stain Portrait (2012) view video Artist Hong Yi aka Red who practices painting without a tradtional brush creates a portrait using coffee cup stains: This project was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou’s song, ‘Secret/不能说的秘密’. The opening line is about lifting a coffee cup off the saucer, “冷咖啡离开了杯垫” . The ending line of the song is about autumn leaves and fragmented pieces, “飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片, 要我怎么捡?”. Hundreds of individual coffee stain rings, many of them broken and imperfect like fallen autumn leaves, form a whole portrait. The project took about 12 hours to finish. Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use - too little water and the rings wouldn’t form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. I had to also wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible. [found at prostheticknowledge] Hong Yi - Jay Chou Coffee Stain Portrait (2012) view video Artist Hong Yi aka Red who practices painting without a tradtional brush creates a portrait using coffee cup stains: This project was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou’s song, ‘Secret/不能说的秘密’. The opening line is about lifting a coffee cup off the saucer, “冷咖啡离开了杯垫” . The ending line of the song is about autumn leaves and fragmented pieces, “飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片, 要我怎么捡?”. Hundreds of individual coffee stain rings, many of them broken and imperfect like fallen autumn leaves, form a whole portrait. The project took about 12 hours to finish. Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use - too little water and the rings wouldn’t form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. I had to also wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible. [found at prostheticknowledge] Hong Yi - Jay Chou Coffee Stain Portrait (2012) view video Artist Hong Yi aka Red who practices painting without a tradtional brush creates a portrait using coffee cup stains: This project was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou’s song, ‘Secret/不能说的秘密’. The opening line is about lifting a coffee cup off the saucer, “冷咖啡离开了杯垫” . The ending line of the song is about autumn leaves and fragmented pieces, “飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片, 要我怎么捡?”. Hundreds of individual coffee stain rings, many of them broken and imperfect like fallen autumn leaves, form a whole portrait. The project took about 12 hours to finish. Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use - too little water and the rings wouldn’t form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. I had to also wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible. [found at prostheticknowledge]