Hello, my name is erik cheung,
and I'm a doodle addict. Edmonton canada

I was born in Hong Kong and am now a Canadian. I have spent 30 odd years trying to develop my art following an instinct, subconscious drive I tend to believe. That is why my work varies from sculpture to drawing, painting, representational to expressive and abstraction. I taught my students doodling years back, knowing I need to surpass in skills, I pushed my approach further and landed on a new style of true subconscious. I was fortunate to have studied under Pat Martin Bates at the University. Her subconscious abstract works somehow led me into the same realm of stories from another world.

I specialize in drawing, marker, mixed media, painting, pencil drawing, sculpture.

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Things just happen? Or is there a hidden subconscious initiative that I have to finish one for my cellist friend ....a year previous to meeting her again at the art walk? Has this ever happen to any artist here?

from a meeting

What is it otherwise?

Find the heart!...and follow it......:) Yes, it is red, the last time I checked.

Drone is such a common thing now and this work comes with the remote as well!!

It is one continuous line. The name of a historic figure. I started to name my doodle with names at one point.

transferred to glass!

The red shape on the top right is the projected area.

A very simple one that gives a 'chime' sound! You hear anything?

Laughing out loud with drool flying all over. It must have been a great day! comments?

Watching too many Greek warrior movies back then? The images were embedded in my subconscious all along !

What a mess! I am never good at flower arrangement!

How many people see this as a whale, I wonder!

Like smoke, the line finishes as soon as it began. There is no room for any colour shapes, or anything else to be done to it; any additions would disturb the coherent of the flow. Contrast, balance and flow all met there. Art simply surfaced at that very moment and left a trace. This very line represents 3 decades of work!

Always that game of catching and evading. I added hands on this one to hint the figures.

Mr. Death and his shackle.

Face to face, eye to eye, this pair of lovers is sharing their moment, despite any other figures which comes and goes. Now, all rests in the back of the mind, buried.

The poppy, The figure. The pose. The profile. That thought.

Another transitional one from 2017 in the size of 18" x 24". Looking back, this work starts showing me some glimpses. Abstracts do have an impersonal quality to it. Since it is not grounded with our everyday familiar objects or people, not knowing the visual language would be hard to understand the merits. I guess that is why I fell back to semi figurative.

This was a transitional piece as I enlarged/zoomed out the 'mass' of the doodle towards the edge of the paper. This was one of the last pieces of abstracts before my figures surfaced from the compositions.

These figures found must cast some meanings from my subconscious. They simply came and as a whole composition! I uploaded a full description on youtube giving them individual names, mostly ghostly. This piece contains a spooky atmosphere stronger than the others and remains one of my favorites, probably because better works come effortless.

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