I bring a small sketchbook with me everywhere I go.
Whenever I had the opportunity to sketch, I sketch.
I use a Pen.
And as you can see there are crooked lines and the stem is out of the bottle.
The bottle itself is out of shape too.
There’s no way I can erase those mistakes.
And it’s perfectly okay.
I use a water brush and the water oozes too much onto the paper. With paint too.
It is a mess and I’m thankful I got some tissues.
The paper is not watercolor paper.
Therefore there were marks beneath the page.

Have a lovely day folks.

Try something different.

Paint a masterpiece at a cafe, write a stirring issue that bugs you, go and sit at the bay alone.

Help someone in a different way.
Create a card with an encouraging message, stick a card over the cracker’s cover. Give not just food or money. Give more than that. Give love.

Don’t just browse or window shop. Buy something. Then give it to someone. Make his/her day.

Smile at babies. Smile at a child. Ask a stranger beside you how his/her day is.

Hum tunes. Sing songs of praise. This is even better than just listening with a music player.

Create, draw, paint something you haven’t done before. Don’t be daunted by it’s complexity or the reason you don’t know how.

Love deeply sincerely unconditionally.

Stop routine.

Stretch our horizon. Repeat and practice our craft.

Take care of this calling.

Have a blessed weekend!

Paint Party Friday

I pick my brush and paint today then sat on the couch to paint a snippet of a scene: our garden. I use watercolor but I use less water. I think I am in love with dry brush for a while.

I simply want colors to speak about what’s in the scene. No sketches. Just random splatter of colors and shapes here and there.

I hope you have a great day filled with love and optimism!

Primary Colors (Yellow, Red, Blue)

Secondary colors (Orange, Violet, Green)– they cannot be achieved by mixing 2 primaries since it creates muddy versions. Thereby manufacturers created separate pigments for them.

Tertiary Colors (Yellow orange, red orange, red violet, blue violet, blue green, yellow green). They are created by mixing 1 primary with 1 secondary except for red violet where Alizarin Crimson  (red with hint of blue) is used instead of Cadmium Red (primary) since the latter contains a hint of orange (yellow and red) and when mixed with violet (blue + red) will yield muddy version because all 3 primaries are used.

The complementary colors can be determine by the colors across each other i.e. yellow and violet, yellow orange and blue violet etc. Notice the numbers of the clock on the wheel. This can help memorize the color wheel easier.

Warm Colors

Cool Colors

Colors are way more complicated than I thought it would be. Learning the color wheel is a pre-requisite to learning more about colors. I hope you learn something today.

For the first exercise I paint the colors that I like and the colors that I dislike.

If you have seen my paintings in the past the dominant colors that I usually use are the bright ones. Personally my favorite colors are green, yellow and blue

I love browns but I rarely use them especially when I am painting layers. I use them when I’m painting barks and branches and sometimes shadows with a bit of blue. I dislike pale colors but I still use them when necessary.

The second exercise is to paint color interpretations of the 4 seasons namely: spring, summer, fall and winter. I had so much fun using whatever colors that I feel best.

Try it too.

A Mother sat one table apart from us. I adore the prints of her blouse.

For today’s painting I was studying Color– a course of mastering the art of mixing colors by Dr. Betty Edwards who is also the author of the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (my next art book to buy).

I am totally fascinated by the complications of colors let alone mixing them. I love the color wheel too and thus painted it according to its Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors.

I learned that complementary colors are not actually the colors that compliment each other (contrary to what we used to know) but more on they complete and or perfect the primary colors. Two complement colors contains the complete trio of primary colors. For example the complement of Yellow is Violet (Red and Blue). The complement of Red is Green (Blue and Yellow). The complement of Blue is Orange (Red and Yellow). Amazing right?

Have a blessed week ahead everyone!

This painting started out with just a flower (the one with the yellow center) as you can see above. The flower painting did not turn out wonderful. It’s my first after all.

To be honest I did not enjoy painting flowers.

All its details or the merging of their fragile colors.

I learn that I enjoy more the painting of flowers with no specific details in mind. A glob of colors with some flower shape will do for me.

This painting evolve into something else. From that first flower I painted random flower shapes instead. Then the next thing I know I am painting random color washes until I’m spraying water all over for the paint to drip.

I am having fun.

Then I realize I am still finding my voice in painting. In art generally.

But I also realize that I love to paint intuitively.

Allowing myself to get lost and loose in painting freely without anything specific in mind.

Doing what it asks me to do. Collage. Print. Marks. Anything.

Painting everyday allows me to do just that and at the same time allows me to search deeper within me.

Have you found your voice in what you love to do?

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I spent 2 hours in this painting copied from a reference book.
Two gorgeous hours that I have enjoyed so much rather than sitting in front of the computer working.
This 2-hour painting did not tire me but merely make me more determined.
I am living in this moment right here and right now doing what I love.

Even if it is just for practice.

Perfection lies in the eyes of the doer and the beholder.
The imperfection can be perfect for some.
The perfection might be imperfect for the other.

Practice makes perfect. And practice on being gentle on yourself too.

The imperfect paintings for now will pave ways for more perfect paintings.
The imperfect result for now will pave ways for more perfect beginnings.

Happy Paint Party Friday! God bless everyone!

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I had so much fun doodling today. The part where I just lost myself in abandon drawing all these lines, curves and characters. It calms me. I love the result!

I applied lots of watercolor paint even allow it to drip. I use Sharpie, micron and color pens for the embellishment.

Doodling is one way to tame the critic as Diana Trout, one of the 21 Secrets Teacher advises. And true enough I did not allow myself to dwell so much on this piece. I listen to myself on what to do next. I follow my instinct then draw and paint. Get crazy!

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Today I don’t feel very well. I have been lacking on sleep due to insomnia caused by adverse reaction of a medicine. Each morning I am feeling heavy and drained of energy. Thankfully though I had finished the last tablet yesterday. Mama is not feeling so well a while ago but she’s okay now. I canceled a lunch meetup with my former teammates and stayed at home to rest and help around.

Hope you all have a great day! God bless.