May 2012
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“Some of them will neither dig nor fight: they are more useless than either of you: they are weaklings and cowards: they are vain; yet they are dirty and will not take the trouble to cut their hair. They borrow and never pay; but one gives them what they want, because they tell beautiful lies in beautiful words. They can remember their dreams. They can dream without sleeping.…
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A song about plastic balloons :D free download on...
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A song about when you wake up and it’s...
April 2012
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An original image will become a prized possession...
As a designer there were primo jobs to be had, newsletters, annual reports, corporate brochures, album covers, posters, book covers. Budgets were good, i.e. you could actually make a living designing newsletters. These were not your everyday corporate communications tools, these were conceptual and colorful and expensive to produce. That all changed. Enter Pagemaker and the CEO could have his...
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Commissioned art work: Peacock Diptych.
I did mockups and studies and pencil sketches for this one because they’re large pieces (large for me anyway - 18 x 24 inches each).
This is the initial study. I want the peacocks to have this level of detail…
…but I want the poses to be more dynamic, like so. The one on the left is an Indian Blue peacock and the one on the right is a Java Green peacock.
The clients...
March 2012
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The Memory Room: Featured Local Artist of the... →
One of my closest friends, interior designer artist woman extraordinaire Ninna Del Mundo blogged about my art!!! *warm and fuzzy feelings* :D
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Simple PHP Gallery (Gallerina) Demo →
While updating my website, I coded some PHP to automatically generate a portfolio gallery for my images. I’m calling it Gallerina and releasing it as open source. :D I’m able to update my online portfolio much faster now because I just have to create folders and put images in them and edit some simple text files instead of coding all the HTML by hand… anyway you can check out the...
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“As an artist, I’m learning that not everyone will like, understand, or...”
– Feanne
reeseypeasy asked: Feanne! I first 'met' you during Indie Fridays where you played (and we played) hahaha and I only your art blog now and omg I'm a new fan of your works :) I just felt like I had to say :)
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February 2012
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“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we...”
– Julia Cameron
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“There is a hole in my heart dug deep by advertising and envy and a desire to see...”
– Mat Honan - Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
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“Let it be unpredictable … colorful … wet.”
– Bruce MacEvoy on watercolors and life
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“The opera technique is comprised widely of imagination: imagining you have a...”
– Jalaine Knott - The heart’s hidden garden
December 2011
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Practicing Smile with my pianist, Eusebio Darbin...
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Wilde
“There is a way,” answered the Tree; “but it is so terrible that I dare not tell it to you.”
“Tell it to me,” said the Nightingale, “I am not afraid.”
“If you want a red rose,” said the Tree, “you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’s-blood. You must sing to me with your breast against a thorn. All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce...
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WatchSinging La Vie En Rose at Mike Molina’s 60th birthday party, December 3, 2011. I was pretty nervous! Thanks to my mom and Tito Gabs for the video. :)
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There’s no one perfect state or process to deliver...
Only being able to create while sad or upset. Or happy. Or only during the day or night. Only being able to work in a tidy or chaotic studio. Only when it comes easy and inspired, only when it’s a grind. Only when at my absolute best, most healthy, or most wild.
The truth is, we don’t really need any of these states to make our work.
Each moment of making is different. There’s no one perfect...
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Original song snippet for today :)
You, with...
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November 2011
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An original image will become a prized possession.
In fact, I feel illustrators have a much better opportunity to be successful in the future than designers. Why? As technology continues to improve designers will have fewer opportunities to do what they do best, whereas illustrators can offer visual solutions in any media for any product or service, designers are limited to hiring those services and with shrinking markets and budgets the...
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October 2011
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Scales & Plumage
Digital dress-up! Today my mind is in Amazon jungle. Obviously this is only a pale shade of McQueen, whom I adore to pieces. Have you seen the shipwreck dress and the dress made out of real fresh flowers?
I was originally wearing a white dress with gemstone green Freshlook colored contact lens. Thank you to Hairport Salon (Presidents Ave., BF Homes, Parañaque) for my curly locks!
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Flora & Fauna
More digital cut & paste pattern fun ❤
I love vintage scientific illustrations. They remind me that back in the day, prior to the invention of the camera and the typewriter, scientists had to be more than just smart. They had to go out into the unknown wilderness to study specimens, so they had to be hardy explorers with survival skills. They had to record their discoveries manually, so...
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Anonymous asked: Your drawings are too beautiful. ;____;
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Anonymous asked: Does it have a grade?
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Anonymous asked: Thanks! To give illusion of round and big eyes?
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You Are What You See
You Are What You Seek
What you seek is seeking you.
Rumi
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Digital cut & paste pattern fun! With vintage illustrations. Inspired by this pretty book.
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Anonymous asked: Wow! Looks like Avatar!
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Anonymous asked: I am curious with the white thing around your eyes.
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September 2011
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Don't let anyone tell you how to do it
I was telling my friend, a painter, Javy, about this drawing tip I’d heard of: Draw with your shoulder, not with your wrist. I don’t recall where I picked it up, but ever since then, I’d have it in the back of my mind and I’d feel a little guilty for having the supposedly bad habit of drawing with my wrist. Which is what I do, I almost always draw with my wrist....
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More and more I understand
Why my grandmother refuses to talk about her art.
What can I say about my art that doesn’t sound… overreaching, superfluous, wishy-washy? All my words about my work are sincere, but I wish I could condense my words into the simple pure essence of what I mean.
Or maybe, like her, I should avoid words altogether and just work.
Just some thoughts. :)
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