Acrylic Painting, A Sis Gift

10 FACTS...

1. this is a gift for my sister, i made this afternoon of saturday, july 25
   
2. the canvass i bought from national bookstore is P160 per framed canvass
3. coz i dont do this stuff as often as i would want to, my first try was a mess, sayang ang P160.00
4. for the successful version, i spent 3.5 hours, for the unsuccessful version, i spent 2 hours
   
5. the toughest part to make, the lips area
6. this is not the best paint job in the world but im sure this is better than a "mango" blouse or shirt.
   
7. the photo was shot in boracay using fuji point & shoot camera, shot by my nanay
8. at the office, doing this thing, i had tabo & timba by my side to wash the paint brushes
   
9. my sister shown in the painting, she's pretending to be an expert photographer. she got same camera set as mine (canon 450 + kit + nifty fifty + 55-250 telelens)
10. because my sister loves the painting so much, she told me the P50,000 i owe her, I can forget all about it. =P
    

Whatever Yaya Art

The recipe for an abstract whatever yaya painting… dirty illustration board + 1 hour + hard 5 year old water color & acrylic paints + water.

Rather than throwing away the hardened water color & dirty illustration board, I made one distorted “art.”

Title: “SUGOD”

Promise, this looks better live than in photo. The white drips and paints are not visible in the pic.

Just testing. I’d like to do this again next week and see if I can make any good.

Getting Back To Charcoal

It’s been almost a year since I have drawn something. Last March and April, I gave two portraits to my 2 nieces. One, for cracking the top five or top ten in her class and the other, for graduating elementary. To say the least, I was not happy with my work but I wrapped it anyways and gave both.

Fast forward today, this time it’s my nephew’s (BOY I AM GETTING OLD) turning one year old tomorrow. I no longer can’t think of gift to give so I decided to pick up the charcoal one again and do one portrait. Besides, it’ll save me P1000 or so by just making a heart-felt, sentimentally made portrait.

Thus, after lunch earlier, around 2 PM, I started to work on this. At 7:30 pm, I got this thing done. Tomorrow, I got to run to ATC just to get a off-the-rack frame for this. The size would be around that of a legal bond paper.



(You know what? I’m sure this is just not me. While drawing or painting in the real-world, every time I make erroneous stroke, my mind tends to look for an UNDO button.)

I have decided to re-kindle my so-called craft. And so, aside from posting basketball stuff like KOBE’s Company, Sam Smith Gone Wild and Dead Online PBA Ending Game Plan, I have decided to do some real-time visual arts as well.