My Museum

Acrylic on home made canvass. Canvass prime is white latex paint. This particular painting is for my cousin in Dubai.    

I've been enjoying doing pencil sketches since I got my 'visual diary'. I've always thoughy I draw poorly and only the colors give my works some depth but I've been surprising myself lately. I seem to be improving and really prefer to do 'still life' sketches.  I love colors and bright ones but my taste have somehow subdued and now I do enjoy pencil sketching. Pencil sketching help improve drawing, form, eye for tones and values

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Dad made this wooden horse for the nephews a few months back from the trunk of a neighbor's tree. He always comes up with something very creative recycling something that many would already consider scrap and junk. I'll be featuring his works now and then here.

This is my third try at doing ducks (acrylic on a board). Finally after not giving up, I think this one is acceptable. I still have to work on the water, the current, the beak and the shadows of the duck on the water. The colors look better in the actual painting though. My web camera doesn't display the exact colors and the brilliancy. Well, practice makes perfect so we'll just have to keep trying.

You just saw a photo that gave you an idea for a painting or a sketch but you don't want to copy the exact picture. You want to put two or more things together and add your own touch but you're not yet that skilled to be able to come up with stuff to put together so what do you do? Here's what I do - I first, map out my idea, the background, the subjects I want on it, where I'd place them in the sketch or painting, then I'd look at books, magazines or anywhere I could get a picture of the subjects I want in the sketch (since I'm still a newbie and  isn't yet expert enough to draw them from imagination). Once I have what I need, I then sketch the background first, then the subject/subjects. For example: i wanted to do a bird on a piece of a tree stump but can't find a picture that has that exactly, so, I first looked for a picture of a stump and only copied the stump and then from another resource copied a bird and put the two together.