Friday, December 11, 2009

Doodle


A small doodle (about thumb size) that I did while watching a tv show. I started from the eyes when I saw the beautiful eyes of the actress in the show.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Devoted Friend


Another painting by P.J. Lynch that I'd copied.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

The Selfish Giant


This is a copy of P.J. Lynch's painting for a story titled "The Selfish Giant". As I have been a big fan of the illustrator for a long time, I recently decided to start making copy of his paintings. So I went to the library and borrowed a bunch of children's books he illustrated. After going through the books I couldn't help but to go to the internet to read more about him and his work. To my surprise, I actually found his blog. I am very impressed by the work he put up on his blog and the fact that he has time to blog despite the time and energy he put into his work.

His paintings are so well thought out and detail that making this copy made me understand true artist really go the extra miles.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Mel's Birthday


I found this in an old book...nah...I did it for Mel's birthday. I started out skecthing Misty, Mel's cat, in brown color pencil and later black pen. After that I thought it would be nice if I could just do some paint dripping on the image and then I went on to do more stuff on it with paints, sometimes just to cover up the part that I don't like. It was fun, more like exploring with different mediums. In the end I really hate myself for adding the paragraph at the bottom. I think it steals the mood of the image. Other than that, it was a good experiment for me.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Portrait of a man, standing.


This is another Rembrandt's painting that I had copied in late July.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Jo's Birthday!


This is for my best friend whose best friend is Ernie. Happy birthday!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Jack's story follow up


My god, it has been so long after my last post! Here are some small paintings I did before I was busied with my latest project. I decided to do small paintings base on the sketches I did for the story "HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE". I love the composition I had in the dog pic.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

How Jack Went To Seek His Fortune




In April I promised my sister, Joey, that I would draw something for my niece to color. I heard she likes drawing and messing with colors a lot so I thought I do should something to encourage her wonderful talent despite the fact that she shows great interest in singing and dancing as well. Anyway, I didn't start on doing the drawings until late June. I found an interesting English Fairy Tales titled "HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE" and I thought it would be a good material for a children's book. My niece and her parents just had a trip to an Australia's farm house early this year and I am hoping the story would remind her of the animals she met there.

I had fun doing the drawings although I didn't spend a lot of time on them. One of the reasons was because I wanted to keep it simple and the other was that I needed to get them done as soon as possible. I drew 10 drawings for the story initially, thinking that the last part of the story was too complicated to draw but my second sis, Kim's asked me to draw the part and so I came out with another 5. Turn out I had more fun doing the last part!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Third Copy - The Grasshopper and the Owl



As you probably noticed by now that I did my master copy in a 5.5" x 8.5" sketch book. It is a Strathmore's heavy weight, watercolor sketch book. All paintings here are done in watercolor acrylic.

I came back to Charles Santore's painting for my third master copy. I was fascinated by the red in the painting. I almost never did a painting in red color scheme and the only one that I did wasn't quite successful. This painting looks so simple with its layout and I only realized how complicated it is when I started my copy. It took me about 3 days to finish this painting in my small sketch book. I readjusted the original layout so that it fit into the sketch book. The painting was done on 6.23.09.

Rembrandt's Flora


This is the second copy I did on June 15th 2009. Ever since I am out of school I haven't been able to paint people from life. I always thought about painting still life at home yet I am never motivated enough to do so. Painting from real life is definitely a good way to improve one's painting technique while training the eyes in observing the painted object or subject.

Since I am not going to set up still life at home now, I thought making a copy of a good realistic painting will help too. This second painting is a copy of Rembrandt's painting titled "Flora". Do note that even making a direct copy from the original, I stylized my painting.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Master copy




About five months after I finished my master program, the time that I painted most intensely in finishing my thesis project, I finally had the motivation to do painting again. I decided to start slow, which is to do master copy first.

This is the first one I did, an illustration by Charles Santore, my favorite children's book painter. This is an illustration for the story "The Ox and the Frog" from Aesop's Fables. I was pretty happy with it when I finished the painting but now looking at it again, it is just ok for a master copy. Still, it is a start.

Friday, July 31, 2009

My first blog...

I decided to join the crowd and start blogging. I think this act is more for myself than for others to share what I have to say. I am hoping that by having a blog now, I will have more reason to do more art works and post them online as often as I should.

...well, we will see.