Acrylic

I fell in love with acrylics and they are my favorite medium. I first use them when I was taking painting lessons at a young age. Acrylics are not too expensive, which was a good thing because I’m not that rich of a person, and they are easy to use. On the painting lessons, I have learned a few things, but for me, being self-taught is better because I have learned much more in making art when being taught by myself than by a teacher. They gave some rules in painting but I end up breaking them after the painting lessons. Don’t get me wrong thought, if I didn’t take painting lessons, I was never would have known the basics, the shadows and highlights, the types of brushes and the use of a canvas and an easel. I should know them before making art professionally. Acrylics dry very quickly, but I’m used to it. Those acrylics on the picture are cheap kinds of brand and Reeves brands are the ones that I could mostly find here in the Philippines.

Wander Over Yonder Fan Art

This is my Wander Over Yonder fan art. It is in my sketchbook and painted with acrylic paint. I’m posting this and I going to further tell the story behind this fan art.

WOY is an animated series created by Craig McCracken. It’s about two intergalactic travellers, who help people to have fun and live free. I really love the show and it became my favorite because it was charming and funny. It’s like a show that I always wanted to watch and the main protagonist, Wander, is really funny, a character that I like to be the protagonist, and the deuteragonist, Sylvia, was a tough female character and that is something I like. As an artist, I love the animation because it’s colorful and a beautiful work of art. When I watched more episodes, something changed my life forever. The show was more about helping others and doing good and it inspires me to do so. It shows the true meaning of helping. When I help someone, it feels good. I become a better person. If you help others and do good, I know you will be rewarded like the people will help you back.

This is my favorite WOY fan art that I have ever made. This is a picture of a girl that looks like me, but it could be anyone, with her cat witnessing Wander and Sylvia. I may want to allow the fans to make their own version of this like changing the appearance of the girl to make her look like them and also change the cat to whatever their pet was. I share this on twitter, but I don’t know if someone make their own version. But I don’t want anyone turning my idea into theirs. I came up with this picture after the show was cancelled. I was sad and angry that it was cancelled because the show had become a part of my life. Think of the good things the show have done to me and how it helped a lot people. I made this fan art to express how I love it and how much I miss it. I write a short poem for this.

Is it the sun, the moon or a star?
I witness something that came across it
I know no one will believe me expect my cat
But what I’m seeing is just wonderful

Prayer Painting and Poem for God

This painting is called “Prayer.” It represents faith in God. I painted it with watercolor. We can communicate with God and come closer to Him through prayer. When I started studying at St. Mary’s Academy, I’ve learned more about God, His good deeds and how great he is. It inspires me to be faithful and makes me a better person. I have an inspirational book with poems that send messages of hope and joy to all who have faith in God and I love reading it when I was a kid and it has pictures of beautiful watercolor paintings. My grandmother, have book like that and I also love it. Here is a poem I write as a tribute to God. This is titled “Peom for God”

I believe in God and I pray
He help me become a better person
He showed me what it truly means to be great
And it made me even happier

God was there for when no else is around
Especially my loneliest of lonely times
He is our creator and our Father
He always forgive us when we did wrong things

God give strength to the weak
And cares for the poor
When life gets hard, we pray
God protects and guides us wherever we are

He loves us with everlasting love
He will help us with our troubles
And comfort us with our pain
We are thankful to God for everything

Yellow Submarine Fan Art

This is a Yellow Submarine fan art that I painted with acrylic painted and it is another project in school. I painted it, but I didn’t come up with this picture, someone else already made this so it is not mine. I recreated this to have a project at school.

This is another project in school. This one I also used acrylic paint. This is a painting of a park was inspired by Leonid Afremov.

The Kitten at Home

This painting is a project at school. I don’t have it anymore, but I still have the picture. I painted this with acrylic paint. This was an original called “The Kitten at Home.” This 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.

Art in my Life

When I was a kid, I love to draw even if I wasn’t good at it yet. As I grow and draw a lot more, my drawing started to developed. I started painting using watercolor at a very young age. I painted so many things that my mother decided to let me take painting lessons and that is when I have learned how to use acrylic paint. Painting was fun through. After the few things I learned in painting class, I now teach myself, which was better than being taught by a teacher, to become an even better artist. I also look at other people work to learn from them and get some inspirations. At first, my arts look a bit like a cartoon, but then, I can do realistic paintings. Even for an artist, it is hard to paint and draw realism, but I never give up until I get it right and I did.

I will post about my artworks, whether they are orginals, fan arts or inspirations. I will also include poems, essays and stories I have written.