Bored Taiwanese Mailboxes
Not sure how often people use mail boxes these days, but those two looked awfully bored when I took their photo at Xi Men Ting on 7/22/2006.Once again, I did this in my Moleskine Pocket Plain Book, a lousy choice for watercolor. And once again, I didn't plan to do watercolor when I was drawing those two mailboxes; I just wanted to get rid of the unpleasant feeling left from my chocolate cake drawing. (Have I mentioned that I didn't even like cakes?)
One of the problems with this paper plus waterbrushes is that it's hard to get dark colors. (The other major problem is that it's impossible to have even washes.) These two mailboxes are much too light for their real world counterparts, but because I'm so fond of them, this little technical issue didn't bother me all that much. What can I say? I'm shamelessly biased.Media: technical pens, watercolor.
posted by Amanda Chou @ 5:04 PM
1 Comments:
Oh my! This is hilarious. When I originally looked (before the original photo was up), I wondered if you were exagerating. Now I realize that those mailboxes do look like they are bored.
Someone was certainly creative to have designed the mailboxes to look like big, boxy, nonplused heads. That makes me happy.
Perhaps today I should see if I can find a way of being creative in my otherwise dull work.
Thanks for sharing this.
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