— Diong

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Paper
(Markers, Acrylic, Pastel)

Picked up pastels, paints and brushes… again.

11″ x 14″ Mixed Media
(photocopy image transfer with acrylic and pastel)

She’s my aunt. I took this picture when we went home to the Philippines last December 2005. I did this work when she passed away last year… I’m thankful I was able to meet and be with her again even for a brief time…

Sampayan (Clothes Line)
11″ x 14″ Mixed Media

Doing experiment with xerox image transfer…

11″ x 14″ Mixed Media on Paper

update 7/14/2006: I created another one… I’ll continue to explore this technique.

9″ x 12″ Mixed Media on Paper

Larger @ Flickr

H5N1 or Bird Flu

I got the image transfer technique from IMT… thanks!

Here is the original photo I used to created the work… The concept came about because when I was taking this shot I was so paranoid all I could think of was “Bird Flu”. I was getting too close to the swan…

I modified the photo in photoshop, added “H5N1″ then flip the image horizontally (which I forgot to do the first time I printed…)

After I did the image transfer… I added more color using gouache…

11″ x 14″ Mixed Media on Paper

11″ x 14″ Mixed Media on Paper

This week’s challenge at IMT:

For this weeks challenge let us have SHOW & TELL. Create a piece of work in any medium and tell us all about it,how you made it, how you were feeling when you made it, are you happy with it, what will you do with it… detatil, details, details! – IMT

I really do not like to “TELL” but I’ll try this time… This is the first two of the series… I used acrylic paints and pastels on watercolor coldpress paper.

Tree #1
11″ x 14″ Mixed Media on Paper

Tree #2
11″ x 14″ Mixed Media on Paper

I was trying to figure out for weeks what to do… But the idea of painting trees came from these sketches plus I’m kinda obssessed
sketching trees lately.

I do not spray fixative on my pastel works so I have to figure out how I’m going to store them when I am finished. I usually put them in portfolio folders with acetate plastics but for these series I have extra frames and matting ready to use…

Lastly what to do with this… I was thinking of putting it in my bare office… but backed out… being in an IT shop, my co workers do not actually know that I’m painting and drawing… So these most likely will end up in the same corner where my other stuff is piling up…

“Ink” is drawn freehand… Clarendon typeface.

For IMT…

20″ x 27″ Mixed Media on Paper

For IMT challenge this week…”Abstract”. See larger file @ Flickr.