Wilson Yau: I draw, teach and make stuff

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Wilson Yau: I draw, teach and make stuff

  • Digital drawings
    • Suburban dreams: Lockdown in Birmingham
    • Commutes
    • About my digital drawings
    • Start drawing (digitally), NOW!
    • Birmingham Central Library
    • Colouring-in sheets (free download)
    • Food
    • ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe
    • London architecture
    • Norwegian
    • War cemeteries, Ieper, Belgium
  • Drawing experiments
  • Models
    • Handmade architectural models
    • 3D printing
  • Shop
    • Etsy
    • Market dates
  • Teaching
  • About me / contact
Food and wine shop

iPad drawing This is a shop local to me. At night the sign and the way the light passes through wine bottles always attracts my attention. Watch the video (1.26mins) above to see how it was created, or just see the end result below.

Wine and food shop at night – 30th August 2012

Eating a McDonald's breakfast, Piccadilly line, 16th August 2012

iPhone drawing I was on my way to Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5, to start one of my rare holidays outside London or Birmingham, when for much of my journey on the Piccadilly line I sat opposite someone tucking into a McDonald’s breakfast. She wasn’t very tidy; she dropped bits of […]

Eating a McDonald’s breakfast, Piccadilly line, 16th August 2012

iPad drawing There’s a lot of life in Borough Market and it has been fascinating watching the Shard being built. This drawing was done onsite, fortunately the weather was good.

Borough Market and the Shard – 11th August 2012

Chilli peppers on mt windowsill, 6th August 2012

iPhone drawing The lack of space (or garden) means I have resorted to growing plants on a windowsill at my workplace. This single red chilli pepper was the first to ripen. There was not a feast and it was a small reward for a lot of effort!

Office chilli peppers – 6th August 2012

Bridford Mews, London, 2nd August 2012

iPad drawing This is a drawing of the view from my office. It was a sunny day and this gave me a chance to practice using light and shadow. Bridford Mews near Portland Place is a quiet street in Fitzrovia overlooked by a mix of high-status offices and residential flats […]

The view from my office: Bridford Mews – 2nd August …

Full moon, Brixton, London, 1st August 2012

iPad drawing This was my first drawing done at night. The full moon caught my eye as I returned home from a late night at the office.

Full moon, Brixton – 1st August 2012

Fountain, Leicester Square, London, 30th June 2012

iPhone drawing The largeness of my fingers and the small size of the screen of my iPhone in comparison became apparent when creating this drawing in a recently rennovated Leicester Square. I sat on a hard surface for about an hour – always look for somewhere comfortable!  This was one […]

Leicester Square – 30th June 2012

Rufus the dog, Gunmakers Tavern, London

iPad drawing This is the second drawing I have done of this beautiful Pyrenean mountain dog, doing pretty much the same thing as he was doing in the drawing I created exactly one year previous – lying on the floor of a pub in Marylebone, London. I was pleased with […]

Rufus the dog II – 29th June 2012

21 February 2012, 4.03 - 4.18pm: St Martin-in-the-Fields

iPad drawing Another of my early drawings on the iPad, this one was timed; it was drawn in 15 minutes (4.03 – 4.18pm). I still wasn’t used to using different layers, zooming in to create the finer details and unfamiliar with what the different brush options did.

St Martin-in-the-Fields – 21st February 2012

Brookside model

The completed model I was commissioned to build an architectural model (scale 1:100) of the set of the long-running British television soap opera ‘Brookside’ based in Liverpool. The model of Brookside Close was for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ travelling exhibition ‘A Place to call Home: Where we live and […]

Model: Brookside Close, Liverpool, 2012

Rufus the dog, Gunmakers Tavern, London - 23rd July 2011

iPad drawing This dog is enormous – the size of a man – and beautiful. As one can guess, lying on the floor of this old-fashioned pub, Rufus gets a lot of attention and is easily the star in any place he is in. Rufus has received attention from both […]

Rufus the dog – 23rd July 2011

Digital drawing: A rough sketch of 66 Portland Place

iPad drawing This is my earliest digital drawing. I was testing out all the different settings and brushes and I quickly got fustrated from the lack of familiarity or experience, hence I spent very little time on it. I did a lot of similar unfinished or child-like drawings. Since then […]

Rough sketch of 66 Portland Place – 22nd July 2011

Trees being cut out of balsa wood

Completed model In 2011 I created a model at a scale of 1:50 based on the architect Adolf Loos’s design for family housing in Vienna at 13-19 Woinovichgasse, Werkbund housing estate. It was made for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ exhibition on Adolf Loos and was on display in their […]

Model: Workers’ houses designed by Adolf Loos, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1046" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Paper architecture, site-specific installation, by Wilson Yau, 2010[/caption]

Over the course a week, I worked with paper to transform an empty exhibition space. This site-specific installation piece was created in 2010 for the the final exhibition of my MA in Art & Design in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. This piece enabled visitors to […]

Paper architecture: Site-specific installation, 2010

Me teaching Key Stage 5 (16-18 year olds) students

My teaching experience covers all age groups, in particular Key Stages 3 to 5 in the state sector, either working in tandem with other teachers and educators, or leading lessons on my own. The focus of my teaching was art and design, where I would find ways to bring architecture and […]

Teaching

Close-up: A book with contours, by Wilson Yau, 2008

I transformed the pages of a blank sketchbook through cutting. The shapes were based on my observations of the flaking layers of bark found on the mature London plane trees (Platanus × acerifolia) growing in Hackney Downs, London, during 2008. The book was on temporary display at the final show […]

Book with contours, 2008

Plan view: The blocks without the base and transport links shown.

In 2008, through my research at Hackney Archives and my own fieldwork, I created a scale model (1:1500) of the London Borough of Hackney centred on Hackney Downs park. It was A1 size (841 x 594 mm) and was made of mountboard on a foamboard base. The model was on […]

Model: Hackney, London, 2008

Windosr Street goods station, Rupert Street, Birmingham, 2007

There were several goods stations built in the 19th century to serve Birmingham. Only a few façades (my drawing is of one of those) and a narrow block of offices remain today on the perimeter of the once-extensive Windsor Street goods station, with the rest of the site currently given over to […]

Windsor Street goods station, Birmingham, 2007

Dean Street, Birmingham, 2007

This is a view of the side of 42-45 Upper Dean Street, a row of run-down 19th-century terraces which have been Grade II listed since 1982. I drew this view using photographs taken from a neighbouring large street-level car park on Dean Street, a site which since 2011 been a […]

Dean Street, Birmingham, 2007

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