Drawings for Faw

I made these as gifts for Faw for her birthday.  I made her guess what "it" was with these clues:

1) Starts with the letter "W" and has the letter "A" in it (Works of Art)
2) Has 10 letters
3) She'll love it
4) Her mom would love it too
5) It has the color red and white in it
6) It's 100% recyclable
7) Somewhere in it lies a right angle


















Well, she guessed it (only she didn't know then) but I did tell her I won't confirm or deny her guesses, but that didn't stop her from trying to convince me to give her another clue. She'd claim she already guessed it and challenge me to guess what I thought her guess what. Yeah right. This baiting and guessing went on for a month. Rightly so, because it took about that much time to make these and have it framed.

Once I've given her the drawings (all framed and neat), she asked why the large red dot on one of the pieces.

I told her I just had to put it there.  Sometimes, when creating or making anything, it pays to take heed of your impulses.

Of course I have my reasons but this time, I'll keep it to myself.


















The drawings were a fine demonstration on how the brain once taught to treat a mark or symbol as "something" then it will keep to that rule as long as the mark or symbol is applied consistently as well.  I mean, come on, how can you accept squiggly lines as shading in the first place?  That was my theory when I decided to doodle in the figure 8 all over the drawings and I was surprised how nicely it worked.















The whole exercise got me thinking about stylizing some elements in a painting and passing it off as modelling.

Stating the Obvious

It has been forever (almost) since I last made an entry in this blog. Every now and then, I visit this place on the internet, to reminisce about the past, and sometimes see what someone would refer to in a conversation about something they saw or read in my old blogs.

The brushes have hardened and turned brittle, the paints had gone stiff inside their tubes, and the turps have evaporated from their loosely sealed bottles.

Fine, the past is the past. We all grow out of certain useless endevours and things as we grow old.

But just recently, I had to come up with gifts for my partner. Christmas was easy - I got her jewelry. Her birthday, which was was just a couple of days after Christmas was slightly more problematic when it comes to chosing a gift for the occasion. I had to give something that wont seem anti-climactic in relation to the Christmas gift I gave. Well, I could have given her a ticket to "Wicked" but I've heard the songs during a Cebu Pacific flight and to tell you the truth, I'm not a fan.

So I decided to come up with something handmade. I've thought of making a bead bracelet but that seems... well... gay. If anything, I'm suppose to highlight my masculinity. Macho is the word of the day.

So I came up with a few drawings. Well, it might not be as macho as macho would go, but it's a better alternative to all the other handmade items I could think of.



This is not it of course.  This is just a preliminary sketch.  I'd post the finish drawings after I give the final pieces to her.

Doing artsy stuff ain't so bad. It's kinda therapeutic. I should however, make sure it doesn't interfere with the other things that I do. I tend to lose focus on important things in favor of a sketch or painting.