Well and Mill

Well and Mill

Mixed Media on Canvas

14x20

Well and Mill" is my very first painting in canvas. I finished this on June 6, 2005, I was incoming grade 6 in elementary back then.

I used acrylic paints for this masterpiece. Since this was my first time to paint on canvas, I did not know some techniques in painting. Art Attack, my all-time favorite TV show in Disney, somehow gave me some important techniques in doing such masterpiece. Until now I am learning from this show (The show is no longer broadcast in Disney but I always visit their website http://www.hitentertainment.com/ARTATTACK/)

Well and Mill" is a painting of a well vignetted by wild grasses and a tree in a yellow-green hills background where a windmill is erected. I find this painting very sad because there is no live action in the scene. Very calm, peaceful; silence as I described this painting.

There were some flaws that I committed while doing this painting. I admit that I am not a good artist but just a trying hard, so I will share to you my top mistakes in this painting.

First, I mixed up Acrylic and Oil-based paints. I didn't have white acrylic so I rushed to the market and bought a can of Enamel white, which is an oil-based paint. While mixing colors, I suddenly noticed that the white was not mixing with acry-colors. But After continuous stirring, it mixed up but there were some white bits in the color.

Second, I didn't know how to play with shadows, that's why the windmill's is somewhat an apparition!

Anyway, whatever are my flaws on this painting I've done, still I am happy with this masterpiece. :D

Amun Sungka

Amun Sungka

Acrylic on canvas 14x18

I want to create a gallery of paintings showing true Filipino day-to-day living. I am not a professional painter but I just want to express the way I feel through painting. I am proud being a Filipino and I am very happy to be a Filipino. There are lots of everyday activities that can be transformed in a masterpiece here in the Philippines. Since I live in Bikol, I just scoped my ideas for painting in this region.

Amun Sungka is the first in my gallery. Amun /a-muen/ means play in Bikol Polangui. Sungka is a native game in the Philippines and also found in the neighboring country such as Indonesia and Malaysia. Sungkaan is wood carved with holes, material used in this game. It has seven holes in two rows and 2 base holes(in my painting, I just made it 6 holes in a row). In Bikol, sea shells are most commonly use in the game and sometimes sampalok seeds.

As the painting shows, a girl is having a turn in the game. The other one (in blue) waits for her turn. It is when the girl having a turn stop in an empty hole. The funny thing in this game is that (based on my experience), you don't know whether your opponent is honest enough in the game. Sometimes, he or she hides a shell or two in his or her hand just to have a continuous turn in the game. In local term, they call this as "nagipit" or holding a shell in the hand. I decided to put another girl in the painting, though she is not part of the game, but serves as an arbiter or the watcher whether both is having an honest turns. She looks at the hand of the one in turn very keenly so that their will be fair and sporty amun.

Churches in Albay

Churches in Albay, a set on Flickr.

sepia portrait

sepia portrait, a set on Flickr.

Photos of some relatives way back their time inspired me to do a rush shoot of sepia-themed portrait in my grandmother's house and my cousin Erika Quennie Diaz was my model.

.Frog Purse

.Frog Purse, a photo by bernsbrijuega on Flickr.

a real frog-made purse really scared me off. I saw this from a stall in Cagsawa Ruins Park in Daraga, Albay, Philippines. It costs 180 Php but you can bid just for a 150. :D Not just a coin purse, also a material for franking. (evil laughs)

Professional Novice

Professional Novice, a group on Flickr.