Modern Day Mona Lisa
Gel Painting & Screen Printing
This page displays my experimental painting projects completed at Pasadena City College (Summer 2018) at GRFX 117 (Advanced Textile Printing) course taught by Professor John Miner, using plastisol ands other fabric painting medium. The curriculum offered at Pasadena City College is outstanding in terms of its high quality instruction delivered by experienced instructors; it offers students a lots of real-world skills and knowledge not available in textbooks, plus hands-on experience for serious artists interested in creating and marketing their own artworks. The courses under the GRFX program at Pasadena City College is highly recommended.
Information about plastisol material is available from Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia.
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Mona Lisa The Beautiful Plastisol and 3D Fabric Paints Project
This project includes 8 pieces of artworks on recyclable 20 inches by 30 inches poster paper. The step-by-step procedures are as follows:
- Print the line art images of Mona Lisa through a silk screen with solvent-based plastisol fabric printing ink, as shown in Figure PFG-4A, and place the printed poster through a heating machine.
- Paint the entire poster with the same plastisol ink with a variety of different colors with a 1.5 inches by 1.5 inches by 1/16 inch tiny plastic plate, and place the printed poster through a heating machine.
- Use 3D Fabric Paints with a variety of colors, purchased at Michaels and local 1 dollar stores, squeezing through the nozzle of plastic bottles in different quantities to produce different thicknesses, massage over the paint with a finger to create blending effects.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
For details in the Figure above, please press the thumbnails in the gallery below.
Figure PFG-10A. The original design of the Community of Human Destiny Commemorative T-Shirt, using the Flag of the New Eight Banners as a reference for a commemorative T-shirt to celebrate the Community of Human Destiny, with corresponding graphical elements such as moon and space crafts symbolic of human dream to explore the outer space, turtle and ocean symbolic of human dream of exploring the oceans, roses, plants, and the image of Saint Thomas More symbolic of harmonious relations among humans and between humans and the Planet.
About Saint Thomas More ...
According to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, Saint Thomas More served as the Lord High Chancellor of the British Crown, from October 1529 to 16 May 1532, was canonized by the Popes as a Saint (1935) and "heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians" (2000), declare by the Church of England as a Martyr of the Reformation, and was the author of Utopia, an interesting book that provides spiritual and humanistic inspirations for social progress in the modern world. Thomas More is among a few thinkers and philosophers acceptable to people of different or even opposing political factions, from left to right, liberal to conservatives, traditionalists to modernists, and religious to humanists.
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About the idea of the Community of Human Destiny ...
The idea of the Community of Human Destiny comes from the Beijing Initiative(北京倡议), passed on December 3, 2017, at the end of the three-day meeting in Beijing (Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting), China's capital city, hosted by the Communist Party of China with about 600 participants from some 300 political parties from 120 countries, and the Initiative states: "We call on political parties around the world to join us in building world peace, contributing to global development and safeguarding the international order." "It also called on political parties to facilitate the building of partnerships, encourage mutual learning among civilizations, and be the guardians of the environment. The significance of this meeting to global politics is that, the participants are from a wide spectrum of often opposing ideological persuasions, including left-wing parties (communists, socialists and Third World nationalist, such as British Labor Party and Israeli Labor Party) as well as right-wing ones (the British Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan), from both developing and developed world. It indicates that the ruling Chinese Communist Party has solidly transformed itself from an ideologically revolutionary Marxist-Leninist organization into a politically much more constructive, tolerant and inclusive ruling party reaching beyond its own boundary to engage in democratic discussion of global issues with political forces of different and even opposing ideologies. More information could be found from the following links:
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The Taiwanese People's Great Heroes Commemorative T-Shirt Project
The T-shirts below are produced to commemorate the February 28, 1947 Taiwanese People's Revolution against the totalitarian regime of the Chinese Nationalist Party. Originally a Left-leaning revolutionary organization that came to power in China in 1927, with weapons supplied by the former Soviet Union and the Communist International, the Chinese Nationalist Party soon started a 22-years long civil war against its former allies in the Chinese Communist Party. When the Chinese Nationalist Party regime recovered Taiwan as a part of Chinese territory on October 25, 1945, the Taiwanese people in the beginning welcomed the Chinese Nationalists as their emancipators from Japanese colonial rule and expected to improve their livelihood under Chinese sovereignty. Unfortunately, instead of improving the social-economic conditions of the Taiwanese people, the Chinese Nationalist Party made the situation much worse through de facto confiscation of rice, sugar and other food supplies from Taiwanese suppliers and ship them to China's Mainland to feed its troupes in the second Anti-Communist Civil War, causing starvation in Taiwan and wide-spread inflation that ruined Taiwanese economy. The Chinese Nationalist Party exerted totalitarian control over the entire scope of the economy including sale of cigarette. On February 27, 1947, a Nationalist Party officer confiscated a few packs of cigarettes from a Taiwanese woman, igniting a wide-spread protests the next day; the protests soon turned into a full scale armed revolution in the entire island lasting till May 16, when the Chinese Nationalist Party regime moved large number of troupes from its Civil War battlefield in Mainland China and massacred large number of civilians in the hundreds of thousands. The event led to a 60 years long "Martial Law" or "White Terror Rule" by the Chinese Nationalist Party in Taiwan, until in the late 1980s, Taiwan started to open up the political process for democracy and reconciliation between local Taiwanese and the Mainlanders or followers of the Chinese Nationalist Party. The February 28 Revolution of the Taiwanese People has been commemorate in China's Mainland since the founding of the Government of the People's Republic of China, and is now commemorated in Taiwan as well.
The three designs for this project feature the images of three prominent leaders of the Taiwanese People's February 28 Revolution, the Taiwanese People's February 28 Revolution Commemorative Flag, the February 28 Peace Monument in Taibei, the Provincial Capital of Taiwan Administrative Authorities, the Heavenly Lake of the Changbai Mountains in China, a Holy Site for the Manchu people who founded the Great Qing Empire that incorporated Taiwan into Chinese territory 400 years ago, strawberries, sunflower, lilies and peony blossom, symbolic of happiness, good luck and the endeavors of the Taiwanese people for democracy and freedom.
The three designs for this project feature the images of three prominent leaders of the Taiwanese People's February 28 Revolution, the Taiwanese People's February 28 Revolution Commemorative Flag, the February 28 Peace Monument in Taibei, the Provincial Capital of Taiwan Administrative Authorities, the Heavenly Lake of the Changbai Mountains in China, a Holy Site for the Manchu people who founded the Great Qing Empire that incorporated Taiwan into Chinese territory 400 years ago, strawberries, sunflower, lilies and peony blossom, symbolic of happiness, good luck and the endeavors of the Taiwanese people for democracy and freedom.
About Xie Xuehong ...Xie Xuehong was among the most important leaders of the February 28, 1947 Revolution of the Taiwanese People against the totalitarian regime of the Chinese Nationalist Party. She believed that "Taiwan must be ruled by Taiwanese." After the failure of the February 28 Revolution, she fled to China. She was wrongly persecuted in China during the 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign and during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), and restored to honors posthumously in 1986. A lot of Taiwanese regards Xie Xuehong as "Taiwanese People's Great Obasan" (a Japanese word meaning mother or aunt). More information about Xie Xuehong could be found in Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia.
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Figure PFG-11B. This design features the image of Lin Xiantang, Taiwan's Mahatma Gandhi, who led the Taiwanese people in peaceful resistance against Japanese colonial rule before the start of World War Two, supported labor rights and other progressive issues as a liberal political leader and philanthropist.
Figure PFG-11B. This design features the image of Tang Dezhang, a martyr of the Taiwanese people's February 28 Revolution. Born as a half-Japans and half-Taiwanese, with a Japanese colonial police father and a Taiwanese mother, he saw the discrimination suffered by Taiwanese under Japanese colonial rule, and was sympathetic to the Taiwanese; he resigned from his job as a Japanese colonial police , studied law and defended Taiwanese in legal cases. During the February 28 Revolution, he was arrested by the Chinese Nationalist Party troupes and wrongly executed without a due trial process because he refused to reveal the identities of his comrades; he was branded as a head of "rebel-bandit."
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The February 28 Revolution of the Taiwanese People Commemorative Flag T-Shirt
The T-shirt displayed below is produced through a four-color silkscreen printing process using solvent-based plastisol ink. The design has been separated into four color layers in Photoshop with registration marks and trappings in the areas where two colors are adjacent to each other. Yellow, Red, Green and Blue plastisol inks have been used to print the T-shirt.
Day of Dead Poster - Hakka Martyrs of Taiwan, China
The 8.5 inches by 11 inches posters displayed below have been designed and printed on October 2018 for the Day of the Dead 2018 event sale, using 5 spot colors and 4 spot colors respectively.
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