Five Things I Learned in Painting

I've always been in love with colors and the magic they bring when they become one in an artwork. But aside from the visual beauty it brings, painting also taught me some life lessons. This article aims to share five of the lessons that I've learned in my painting journey.

Break Time: MOONLIGHT

Just want to share to you the assignment made for my literature class. We were assigned to draw a portrait from the story Moonlight by Guy de Maupassant. 

Nakakatawa pa nga ang sinabi nang roommate ko nang matapos ko tong gawin just the other week. Ang sabi pa niya. “Ang nice naman niyan ‘te, mukhang itlog yong moon!”  Hahaha… Akala ko pa naman, maganda na iyong ginawa ko, iyon pala mukhang itlog yong moon. 

Anyways, heto na siya. It isn’t that great naman as hindi naman talaga ako expert sa larangan na ito. Sa totoo pa nga, it looks abstract sa malapitan. Hindi mapipicture out na merong puno. Naappreciate ko lang siya nang pinicturan na nang roommate ko. Ewan ko lang pero nagandahang din naman sa outcome niya sa picture. Nasabi ko pa… “Ba’t parang mas photogenic pa ‘to kay sa sa akin?” 

Ay! May pahabol pa nga pala ako! Bago ko lang napansin ‘to! Just for fun…let’s play a game! It reminded me of the movie Legends of The Guardians kasi. The name of the game is SPOT THE OWL. There’s an owl spreading his wings and it’s your task to find it. Hanapin niyo kung nasaan… Ready..Set..Go..

Giants and Elves Badge

I’ve already created a badge for my Giants and Elves blog. I’ve created it just last month and this post about the badge had been in my drafts for quite some time. Too bad that there was brown-out which stopped me from publishing it and then when there was power again, I became lazy to post it and forgot it in the next days. It was only last night after I received a message from SittieCates, my new friend from Triond who told me about how her daughter loves my Giants and Elves blog which is of course, very pleasing and sweet for someone to admire my work even if there are still some typographical errors with the story.

[Hey Sittie, if you’re reading this, thanks for the appreciation…:)]

Okay, back to the real story. So after receiving Sittie’s message in my Triond inbox, I directly checked the blog. That’s when I remembered this unfinished post. I saw my green Giants and elves badge on the upper left sidebar of the blog. The badge is from the background of the blog. I just changed its color theme into light green and embossed it. Now, if you are thinking how I did that? Don’t think about other image editing softwares like Photoshop and Coreldraw because the badge was made with only Microsoft word and Paint. I’m not really savvy when it comes to Photoshop. I only know the basics and Coreldraw is not that friendly with me. It’s only AutoCAD that I can work with and blah blah blah[enough about the software stuffs]. The badge was made in cooperation with the printscreen button on my keyboard. The characters printed on the badge are George[middle] holding his staff, Cedrick[right and Vaiola[left]. I used Paint in drawing the three characters. I just hope someday I can improve them.

What else should I say? Ahhhmmm… [thinking mode] Aha… I have an idea, since I haven’t uploaded the image in Photobucket and in Flickr which is the reason that I still don’t have a badge code, I’m calling all those interested friends out there to just copy the image of the badge in your drive and just upload it on your picture widget and then insert a link to Giants and elves blog. That is if you are interested but if not, thanks for dropping by anyway. :) :) :) ….HAVE FUN and GOD BLESS.

MEET VAIOLA

I was working on my writing assignments when my brain just went blank. I totally run out of ideas and words to write so left my PC for a while and tried to sleep. Who knows? Maybe I'll dream about ideas. However, it didn't work out. Why? because I wasn't able to sleep. I had my pen ang some scratch printed papers. I tried sketching but nothing happened. It looked like an abstract. A totally unexplainable sketch. I went back to my computer, pressed on the start button and there was Paint in the lower portion of the start options. I didn't know what went into my mind. The only thing that happened afterwards was this....

Meet Vaiola... Vaiola is another character from my fiction story Giants and Elves. Actually, I have no intentions of really drawing her. I was only drawing a woman and then when I finally made the layout, I thought of finishing it and name it Vaiola. The drawing is not that really nice. It has some fail lines and the color is not that really well mixed.