Leaderboard

I used water color and ball point for highlight.

An aerial view of the countryside, with hills and a river - somewhere in the Philippines

The clouds are terrible! feeling like it was a nice to lay here! How do you feel when you touch the clouds ? soft or tough? hahaha

na amaze ako sa view! ang ganda parang na excite na tuloy ako mag take off agad hahaha..

This was my first time boarding an airplane and I saw how wonderful it was to see the huge building here in Manila.

Here I am very amazed at how nice the view is! if only I could ride the airplane everyday just to see how high the view was. ???

Shot taken from the National Museum of Natural History.

located at Mt. Mapalad antipolo rizal

Simple and quick drawing of Mr. Bean! I only used mongol 2 pencil for this.

black sand beach located at batangas

The island is called Kalanggaman because of its bird-like shape. “Langgam” is a Visayan word for “bird.” According to Cleofe Rivera, eco-tourism officer of Palompon Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/583267/kalanggaman-flies-again#ixzz6LGZz1PMR located at Palompon, Leyte

That was me photographing the photographer! When I uploaded this, over 18 years ago, I referred to the photographer as an Old Japanese man. Now, at the time of writing, (October 2024), I am 66 years young myself! When editing this image description, I also realized that the Photographer could well be Korean, Vietnamese - or even an American Citizen, for all I know! So here we go, with an updated, (2024) description of this image... A spritely young man taking pictures of "sakura" (cherry trees) in full blossom, in the Peace Park outside the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Japan Photo taken in spring - (cherry blossom season - obviously!) - 2006

One of the island in hundred island. You can come to this place by renting a boat and do island hopping.

4D cinema located at Enchanted kingdom, sta. Rosa Laguna

These are actually wind turbines - not windmills!! They are designed and used for generating renewable energy in the form of electricity from the wind. As opposed to "windmills," which, as the name suggests, were used for milling grain in times gone by... -- got the information from wikipedia -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill Located at Tanay, Rizal

Red Lilly flowers

Another epic failure! Oh well... The hair turned-out quite nice, I suppose. I'm all out of leave again. I'll have one last attempt at making a half-decent portrait for Resley when I get back next time...

My first ever painting that was not based on a photograph! This is a purely fictitious scene that I just concocted-up in my imagination. It is supposed to be a view through an old country cottage window, somewhere in the South of England on a warm, sunny morning. The garden pool has some koi swimming around in it and the bench is just waiting for me to take out my coffee and sit on it to watch the koi! The Full 3.84MB image file of this painting can be downloaded in the ArtFreaks.com Downloads module If you wish to purchase the actual painting, you can check the ArtFreaks.com Store and see if it is still for sale

This is what my studio looks like. I find it ideal for pastel painting as the floor is tiled - so very easy to brush or mop clean. It has plenty of windows - so nice and bright with plenty of natural light and quite breezy, which is very important for me in the Philippines. Note the cheap plastic trays, mounted in a portable rack for storing my different colors - and the "angle-poise" lamp for working in the evenings...

From an excellent photo by Canadian photographer Jim Winsor. (Photo used with Jim's very kind permission.) The photo was taken in October 2011 and Jim writes: High quality prints, mugs, T-shirts etc., depicting this image can be purchased online at: ArtWanted.com You can also download the orignal 5.53MB image file of this painting in the Downloads module of this site.

My first attempt at a portrait of a friend of mine's niece. I done this during leave from my job in April, 2013. Unfortunately, the weather was extremely hot in the Philippines and I was in a bit of a rush to try and get this finished. I will probably try to make a few very minor adjustments when I get back home but I don't want to try to hard with this, as I will only end-up completely ruining it... Anyway, it is included here as this album is a collection of all my recent work - good, bad or indifferent! Prints and gift items featuring this image are available on ArtWanted.com at: http://www.artwanted...62643&RID=23179 Download the original 3.65MB file in the ArtFreaks.com Downloads module at: http://www.artfreaks.../51-amanda-one/

This was about my third attempt at painting a pastel portrait from a photo of a lovely Thai girl, called Tussinee. Each attempt was getting progressively worse than the previous. When I finally realized that I just wasn't in the mood for painting, I lost my patience with it and defaced the thing completely. Then again, when I looked at it, I just thought; "Hey! I'm going to keep this one!" To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com

This was the painting at the end of the second session. Just starting to add some detail and give it some form. At this stage, the painting is more like a childish colored crayon sketch - but I have high hopes for this one when it is finished!

This is the first stage of the painting. I made the background color scheme by blocking-in the main colors with soft pastels on heavy, course-grained watercolor paper - and then going over the different areas with clean water on a paint brush in order to make a watercolor wash effect. I am basing this painting on a really nice photo by Jim Winsor. http://www.facebook.com/jim.winsor.75 Photo used as reference material with Jim's very kind permission. The original photograph on which this painting will be based, can be down-loaded at: http://www.photoartf...ailway-cp-8856/ The photo was taken in October 2011 and Jim writes: "This was so far the most significant snowfall we have had yet this year. I braved the elements today to capture this rare for me image of such a beauty. I arrived at this location and it was dull and overcast which soon gave way to a lite blowing snowfall. This beauty could be heard off in the distance and low and behold out of the blowing snow she came."

A not very good attempt at making a copy from a family photo. Never mind... I was quite happy with some of the background - and these things can only get better! (It also kept me out of any other kind of mischief for a while...) The Full 3.84MB image file of this painting can be downloaded in the ArtFreaks.com Downloads module If you wish to purchase the actual painting, you can check the ArtFreaks.com Store and see if it is still for sale

A very pretty young lady shoe vendor - and an equally pretty young lady who just happened to be walking by, (if you can believe that?!!) Photo taken on a short trip to Bangkok in October, 2006 To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items , customized with this image are also available at ArtWanted.com

Bangkok street scene with a pretty young lady selling shoes on the pavement and a middle-aged food vendor walking by with her food cart. Photo taken during a short visit to Bangkok in October, 2006 To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items , customized with this image are also available at ArtWanted.com

And here it is - the finished painting... As expected, when I was able to buy some Schmincke soft pastels, they adheared very well to the underpainting. Had I not had access to these ultra soft pastels, I would have had to abandon the painting at stage seven, when I probly would have destroyed the thing as I was not really satisfied with it... This is not a briliantly fantastic landscape but I am reasonably happy with it. I am not very good at this particular genre, (I much prefer doing portraits,) but this is probably the first half-decent landscape that I have managed to do. I enjoyed the challenge - and, hopefully, the next one will be better!

...showing a bit of attitude! A very strong character, this one! Jelyn is also a very pretty girl - something that this portrait in no way gives her justice... Anyway, I quite liked the way that her hair came out, so this painting was not a complete disaster. Soft pastels on Canson colored pastel paper - 18" x 12" (46cm x 31cm)

Jelyn sitting on her "duyan" (or hamok) - at home on the farm in Mindanao. Rembrandt and Schmincke pastels on a light creamy coloured Canson Mi Teintes pastel paper. 12" X 16" - Completed January 01, 2007 - My first 2007 painting! Another attempt at a pastel portrait... I'm still working on these things!!! To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com

For this one, I chose a light creamy coloured Canson Mi Teintes pastel paper, 12" X 16" This photo shows the initial sketch, made with a charcoal pencil.