Category Archives: Art, Fashion Design and Photography

Art Attack 101: Tulip in Oil Pastel

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Art Attack 101: Tulip in Oil Pastel

Combined two mediums: oil pastel and colored pencils. My first time to try oil pastel. Enjoying it so far. 🙂

Mushy Like A Mushroom – Missing Home

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Mushy Like A Mushroom: Missing Home

I stared at this photo I took in my home town in Bicol a few months back. It is a mushroom. That, I can tell. For sure you can tell. 😉

It is soft and pure. A haven. A refuge for those tiny creatures crawling on the ground.

I imagined myself to be that creature. I sought shelter in that white spot.

I thought about home. After 11 years, this year is the second time I wasn’t able to go home at this time of the month.

I miss home. I miss my family. I miss the salty, summer breeze, the twigs, the flowers, the ants – every single thing around me when I am there.

But that mushroom signifies my other home too – a pure and spot-free life like what Jesus had.

This mushroom reminded me everything I ought to be – pure and simple, amidst the grayness and rusticity around me.

And another thing too – to be mushy. Thus, this emotional article. 😀

Sweet Surprises, Sweet Mornings

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Yet another simple and sweet early morning surprise from yet another sweet and creative office mate – an origami tulip and box (Thanks, Ms. Faith!). 😀

Oh, how sweet it is to be loved by them! 😉

A Simple But Sweet Token

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A Simple But Sweet Token

Look what I found this morning on my office desk (he wasn’t able to thank me personally because I had to leave exactly at the end of my shift yesterday and he has an after-work tutorial to attend to, this was what I saw first thing today)

– a simple yet creative art work/token of gratitude from one of my office mates (Thank you, Mr. John!).

Ahhh yes, simple things never fail to make my day bright and make me smile the sweetest. 😀

Thank You, Father God, for surrounding me with the sweetest office mates. You know how much I love having them around.

P.S.

Just in case you are wondering what that one peso meant, we have an “English only policy” inside the school premises. Anyone who violates it will have to pay a fine of P1 per Filipino word. 🙂

* salamat – thank you

“Fix Your Eyes On Him”

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I was randomly searching bible verses over the internet to get me through the day when I came across a picture of a woman looking upwards and a bible verse from Hebrews 12:2 that says:

“fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

I was simply not just motivated by the verse, itself, but the photo of the girl as well which made me create this art work.

I hope I have made even just the slightest improvement when it comes to rendering.

🙂

“Golden Patterns”

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A beautiful, intricate pattern in one of Zamboanga City’s shawls made of fine gold threads. One of the exquisite designs ever made – definitely a work of art. 🙂

“Thou Shall Not Wilt”

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If your imagination is running high, you would agree with me if this looks like a flower to you – the inside of the top core cover of a coconut fruit attached to a stalk. A flower that will not wilt. 🙂

Beauty Captured Through A Lens: My Photo Collection

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Here are some photos from my collection. These photos were taken starting year 2010 when I have decided to try photography as another hobby. It turned out that I am having quite a lot of fun with this new hobby of mine. 😉

I have been taking photos of basically anything that I see since then. Yes, there is something new to learn out there everyday, indeed. 🙂

“Dusk By The Sea”
“Santal”
“Little Bud”
“Wilt”
“Hydrangea”
“Ivy”
“Coral 3”
“Coral 2”
“Coral”
“Little Tube”
“Jar”
“Shade”
“Door Handle”
“Chain”
“Globe”
“Baluster”
“Shells”
“Cone”
“Weave”
“Vase”
“Chair”
“Ratan Lampshade”
“Russian Dolls”
“Sticks”
“Twigs”
“Ratan”

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Exquisite as they are – diamonds. And so is love. Indeed. 🙂 Re-blogged from Mike Watson. Thanks for this post, Mike! 🙂

How My Passion For Art and Fashion Came To Be

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It all started with having Barbie dolls to play around with. Yes, as simple as that. I learned the first lesson in mixing and matching clothes coming up with different styles that suit my mood as early as 8 years old. It was a typical childhood past time for me back then and when I was in high school and I could not play with the dolls anymore, I started drawing and sketching from clothes to portraits. I never took these hobbies seriously.

One summer, when I was back home in Bicol for the sem break, I scavenged closets out of boredom. I came across really fascinating old clothes with designs that could be dated back to the 70’s or the 60’s even. Vintage dresses so to speak.

I asked my mom who owned the clothes, and voila, they were all hers. She wore the clothes when she was my age, early 20’s. I asked her about the history of the clothes i.e. where she bought it, how much, etc. and was amazed to find out that she designed the dresses herself as that time, shopping malls and boutiques are scarce in far-flung areas or in the provinces. So my mom decided to just design her own clothes, choose the cloth for each dress and have them made through a seamstress or a dressmaker.

So maybe being a fashion designer is in the genes after all. *wink*

The photo below is a picture of some of the dresses that my mom made, and the next photo is a photo of her in her early 20’s.

It was only recently that I made my own fashion design sketches too. Like the ones below.

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And of course, my first model would be none other than the ever lovely Barbie. Yes, I still have a use for them. Not for playing, though. But for something far greater than that.

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As for charcoal sketching, it became my stress reliever lately. And the sketch below is one of my first sketches on a bigger canvas. This was also the first time I tried experimenting with the shadings using a charcoal pencil.

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I never took them seriously before. Not until now when I had this sudden realization that not only are they my outlets for relieving stress and for spending my free time but I really should make good use of these God-given talents.

It is time I recognize them as blessings and for me to be able to share these blessings too.