The Kitten at Home (New)

Here is a new version of “The Kitten at Home”. It is more detailed than the first one. The meduim for this is acrylic on canvas. I painted this for my first art exhition at school where painting majors gets to showcase their art. I have been having feelings of nostalgia. Ever since I moved for college, I really miss home so I repainted “The Kitten at Home. This painting is based from where I live. We have a garden, there are a lot of maya birds and chestnut munia in there and I have pet cats. I don’t have the first painting anymore because I passed it to my teacher and she never give it back, but I get to keep this new one.

The Man in his Own World

I haven’t posted in a long time. I have been busy the past months. I’m far away from home because I have moved for college and I’m taking a fine arts course.

This acrylic on canvas painting is a project in school with the theme: “What detachment from the world can tell us.” We all have different uderstandings of the theme and here is mine:

It is a picture of man standing in a small planet and he is away from earth. The man is someone who has his own world. He made his world because he was so different from other that he is having a hard time fitting in with the real world and there are so much chaos. His own world was a much better place because it was a more peaceful and lighthearted wonderland. The planet was rather small, but it was beautiful. It was a place for him to be happy and to comfort and soothe himself.

This painting comes with a haiku poem. I don’t know if it is good, but my clasmate think it’s nice. Here it is:

Here in my planet
Like Alice in Wonderland
Springtime is all day

The Beatles Fan Art

I’m a huge fan of the Beatles, an English rock band from Liverpool with members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. I really love their music, they are talented, funny and the best rock band ever. (I didn’t mean to copy someone else’s photo, I just want to draw for fun.)

Some people heard about the Beatles from thier parents and grandparents, who seem to be fans, but me, my parents and grandparents were never fans, so I never heard from them. I have heard some Beatles songs in the radio, but I didn’t know it was from the Beatles. When I was a kid, I think the first Beatle song I heard was Yesterday and it was so nice to listen to. I learned about the Beatles when my cousin watch the music video of their cover of Twist and Shout and she told me it was the Beatles. My cousin knows about the Beatle because her father was a fan. I check a few of thier songs and I found their songs to be so great and I’m beginning to love them, but I wasn’t obsess just yet. When I decided to learn more about the Beatles and listen to almost all of thier songs, I’ve learned that they are so awesome that I became so obsess with them and started loving them much more.

Almost all of their songs are so beautiful, catchy, memorable and unique. The tune and beat of the songs makes you want to dance and sing along. The lyrics are poetic and has a deep meaning. Their song were a masterpiece. The music they make are a creative work of art. My favorite Beatle song is “While My Guigar Gently Weeps.” It sounds beautiful and haunting and its lyrics is like a philosophical poem.

All four members of beatles are charming, funny, smart, sweet and talented. They are so kind and nice to their fans and help out to make peace and love that make me love them even more. My favorite Beatle is George Harrison. He reminds me of me because he was called the quiet Beatle and I’m being called the quiet one. He is a very talented musician, a good Beatle and so attractive. I’m a fan of his son, Dhani Harrison, who is just like George.

Every footage of them whether it’s a music video, an interview, a tour, a Beatle movie or just them playing around always puts a smile on my face and I feel happy when I heard their songs. I feel like they are different from any other. I lost my interest in music ones, but listening to the Beatles brings it back. They were a legend, they change the world through their best music and they are greatest rock band ever.

Wander and Sylvia

These are just fan arts of two characters from Wander Over Yonder. These characters belong to Craig McCracken, the man behind The PowerPuff Girl and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. On the circle one, I painted Wander and Sylvia with poster paint and I colored the background with a purple colored pencil and white and pink watercolor. I know that the watercolor will smudge to the other page of my sketchbook because I used the chalky one and so does the colored pencil, so I decide to cover the surface with glue that dries clear and it makes it glossy and doesn’t smudge anymore. The other one is all painted with poster paint.

Wander and Sylvia are inseperable best friends. Wander is the main protagonist of the show and Sylvia is the deuteragonist. Their relationship is so wonderful and precious that I could feel that they are more than best friends. You don’t have to agree with everything I said especially if you don’t like the pairing because this is just what I feel. In the series, it is shown that Wander and Sylvia have an excellent and special chemistry and I love it. But they weren’t romantic, only platonic.

Wander is an intergalactic space traveler and a do-gooder. He was so funny, friendly and kindhearted. He always help those who are in need and do good. He sees the good in everyone even if that person is bad. He is a kind of guy you would like to befriend with. Sylvia is a zbornak, who is Wander’s traveling companion and best friend. She is tough, brave and intimidating,but also caring and protive. She could make a good big sister. Wander and Sylvia have a mysterious relationship because there might be something hiding behind their relationship and how it made us question if they are actually couples. But it was never answered in the show. They might be lovers that are hiding the romance between them or maybe they see each other as just friends but are actually lovers. I may have found some hints that their relationship can be romantic: the multiple hugs they give each other, they pretended to be parents, they share a glass of drink with two straws and a planet, that has a crush on Wander, was jealous of Sylvia. The episode, with the jealous planet, might the episode that really tries to hint that they are romantic. It was the first episode where Wander and Sylvia says “I love you” to each other and it shows Wander not wanting to fall in love with another girl, but rather wants to be with Sylvia. Wander did say to Sylvia that he can imagine a lot things but he can’t imagine a better friend than her, which means to me that she could be the only one he wants in his life forever. None of them has any love interests throughout the show. It might mean that the two of them should be partners. The story of how they met is interesting. Sylvia used to be a bad person and a dangerous bounty hunter, but Wander’s influence changes her to a goodhearted person. Since the show was cancelled we never get to see more of their past lives.

Again, you don’t have to agree with everthing I said. It is just what I feel.

Old Drawings

I decided to look back to my old drawings. The first picture shows a drawing of a youtuber named Animat from his youtube channel ElectricDrangon505 and Wander from Wander Over Yonder. I make this kind of crossover because Animat have a series in his channel called “What’s in the Box?” where he reads letter and opens packcages and there is an episode in WOY, “The Box”, where there is this box that Wander wasn’t suppose to open, but he was curious of what was inside and he keep saying “What’s in the box?” The connection is that they say “What’s in the box?”

That second picture was taken back on March 9, 2017. I remember when I was in school, when the school year is almost over that all we have was free time and no classes, bringing my colored pencil and sketchbooks. I was in the school library with three of my friends, who are borrowing my colored pencils so that they color their coloring book, I was doing my drawings and then some kids, who are all girls, saw my drawings of the WOY characters and a sketch of RJ and Verne from Over the Hegde, so they gathered around me. I show them my drawings including the “What in the Box?” and they were impressed and they like my drawing. One girl, named Andrea, who I made friends with much more than the others, said that she loves the What’s in the Box?” I don’t think they know Animat, but they do recognize Wander and I ask them about WOY. Some of the kids grab their papers and pencil to draw along with me and I let them use my colored pencil to color their work. The kids were very nice, smart and they are even responsible because they know how to take care of my colored pencil. I hope they are doing fine. My friends also did get along the kids.

Stop-motion

I tried making a stop-motion. I made this out of modeling clay. This contains only two photograph each with different arm position. I just use a video editor app in my phone and the photos are taken by my phone camera. I use the first photo and then the second one and then the first again and then the second and so on. I don’t think it’s good enough but I have made one. I could like to try filming because it is art with movements. This stop-motion video is actually older than the artworks I have posted because it is made way back in the year 2017. All I need to make a stop-motion is a figure and a camera and this one was the easy way because the only thing that is moving is the arm and it is only five seconds. It would be nice to do animating, but I don’t have the tools. I had fun making this, though.

Cat Sketch

A pencil sketch of our pet cat. We have him with us since he was a kitten. His mother is also our pet and he have a brother, a sister, and a half brother (the kitten from my painting, “The Kitten at Home” was his half brother). And also the mother of his mother used to be our pet. I’m sad to say that his mother had passed away due to what we think was caused by snape bite and his brother move away because they don’t get along. They did get a new pet, which was a dog, and I hope he will get along with cats, become friends and playmates. We also have a dozen of chickens.

There are more animals in this place. I live near a forest, a tropical forest, where I could heard and see a lot of birds. And sometimes there are civets coming into our yard and eat our papayas during the night and sometimes I could hear owls. There are also those times there is this iguana that sometimes come to our yard. Well I do love animals.

Skidmark Fan Art

This is my fan art of Skidmark from the Dreamwork movie, Turbo, and its TV series, Turbo FAST. I used colored pens, black ink pen, poster paint and colored pencils.I thought the movie was okay, but the series was greater than the movie. In the series, the characters, Whiphlash, Skidmark, White Shadow, Burn and Smoove Moove get more character development and they are lovable.

My favorite character is Skidmark, the blue snail who was Whiphlash’s feisty number two and the one with propellers on his racing shells because he is so smart and had a good sense of humor. The fact that he is a conspiracy theorist only made him more lovable.

I will tell more informations about him than wikipedia did, though I am getting ideas from wikipedia and add my thoughts about him and I’m sorry that I will not talk about the other characters. But don’t take this so seriously because I may have said something wrong.

He is very talented at mechanics as he builds racing shells that give him and his teammates speed and his racing shell has mechanical arms inside it, which he often use to build his invention quickly and used like hands. Skid is one of the funniest characters in the series and is shown to be enthusiatic. He the most intelligent and wisecraking of the crew as he come up with plans and ideas and can tell a pretty good joke. He is studious and an absolute genuis, but insane. His teammates often get annoyed with his fondness to conspiracy theories, despite most of them are true. He has the ability to see other people’s thoughts and knows that he is in a show as he sometimes breaks the fourth wall. Although he have an unusual behavior and slacks off at times, he is a devoted member of the crew and he proved that he have compassion such as saving innocent snails and insects from dangerous creatures, helping others and sacrificing himself to save his friends.

The series did not reveal his past life. I know that his real name is Skip Markovitch, but where does he come from? It said that he is an immigrant from a place called Shellis Island and his last name was changed. It was never mentioned in the series that he has any parents or relatives. Maybe he was found by Whiphlash and was the first one to be recruited to the crew and that’s why he’s the second-in-command. Maybe Whiphlash was his adopted father or guardian after he moved to him.

Some people say that ordinary snails can smart, but a snail literally has no brain. Does the makers of the series even know that snail don’t have brains? Skidmark said that he have a brain and keeps saying things about it like “it’s messing with my brain.” Maybe Skidmark didn’t mean an actual brain, but another organ that controls. Maybe he is the only snail that has a brain. I know that the snails in Turbo are anthropomorphic, but Skidmark is rather unique. Maybe the reason why he is a genuis was because he has a brain. This is not making any sense, but I just saying.

There is something good happened when watching Turbo FAST and Skidmark as my favorite character. Skidmark inspired me to study harder and to be smart. It really help me in school. I’ve been getting good grades because I’ve been studying really hard and I became smarter. I’m very thankful.

Contests at School

I did fruit carving for the first time when I was chosen to be the participant of a fruit carving contest at school last July. I was chosen because there was no one else can do something artistic. Before the contest, I look for methods on YouTube on how to carve a fruit. And then at the contest, I carved a watermelon to a swan. Some people said it was pretty, but I’m not quite happy with it and it’s not perfect. But surprisingly, I won second place. I was happy that I’m in second place and well I do think that mine was better than the others’.

When it comes to contest in that school, I was always chosen to be the participant of poster making contests and I always lost to a little kid. I never like it because they only give us two hours and it took me like five hours to make good art with my favorite medium that takes patients, so I have to work faster and impatiently with my least favorite medium, because that medium can be used quickly and doing this makes my work crappy. My least favorite medium are pastels because they are kind of messy and my work with it is dirty. Another thing that bothers me is when I was partnered with someone who is not an artist or someone I don’t have a good chemistry with because they don’t care about me and making the art that they end up making it crappy. The times when I got on the top three was when I was partnered with someone who may or may not be an artist but tried the best to make the art good and with a good chemistry with me. I have spend six years in that school and only three times that I made it to the top three out of six times a year.

And about that school I mentioned, I left that school because I graduated high school and I’m going to be moving to college and I will be taking fine arts.

Watercolor

I have used watercolors before acrylics. It was a part of my childhood and I fell in love with them and I used it when I was a child and this what made my mother to take me to painting lessons. Though my paintings, when I was a kid, wasn’t as good as now, but I’m having fun and it is a good way to start. Those watercolors on the picture are cheap, but good and pigmented. The pan set was chalky, but still good.