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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

Stone cold water pools with some rock design made by men. This is the other side of daranak falls Daranak Falls in Tanay, Rizal Province, Philippines

The Hundred Islands National Park actually consist of 124 separate islands (123 at high tide). The islands offer countless opportunities at water activity. You can rent a motorboat and go island hopping, kayaking, diving or snorkeling.

For those people that light up my world. I used soft pastel as material

Located at SBMA Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_milii This photo was taken maybe nine years ago. I decided to upload it here ☺️

The white sandy beach outside Blue Rock - with a bangka, jet ski and a nice bahay kubo (nipa hut) for sitting in the shade! Located at Baloy Beach, Subic Bay, Philippines

The painting that almost ended my my enthusiasm for the hobby. It took so long to complete, I almost gave-up the whole idea of even trying to be an artist. Started some time in 2011 - and finished in May 2012!! A beautiful Filipina girl from the Pretty Po Kami facebook group page

Photo taken in Malate, Manila - March 2005 Pretty young Filipina flower girls Unfortunately, when I reduced the image file for posting on a previous version of ArtFreaks, I never thought to keep the original high resolution image file.

An old man on the seashore near Ogden Point, Victoria B.C., Canada. He had bought along some woodworking tools and was busy turning the pile of driftwood around him into intricate little birdhouses. Photo taken on a sunny but windy day in May, 2007

A young boy running his hand through the water of a fountain pool in Bangkok Photo taken 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

The final version of my Feathery Head Dress painting. After I uploaded the earlier version, I realized that the ear looked awful, so I covered it up with an extension of the head band, to which the lower feathers are attached.

Mita Rani Das. A beautiful young lady from India. This was based on one of Mita's facebook photos with her very kind permission.

The finished article. This is as far as I am going with this. If try to improve it, I will just end-up spoiling the painting. Anyway, I think it captures something of that beautiful locomotive blasting the snow away as it pulls a train through the first snowfall of winter.. I would just like to thank Jim Winsor for allowing me use his excellent photograph - to which this feeble attempt of mine does very little justice!

A picture of three happy smiling, happy young Filipina girls, all dressed-up in the 'Sunday Best' for selling flowers on the streets of Malate in the City of Manila, Philippines. 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

A pastel painting of Shoubi, my Pit Bull Terrier cross-breed bitch. This was my second attempt and, although it is still a long way from perfect, I feel it is an improvement on "Shoubi - One". I managed to get her coloring a bit better and Shoubi looks less "foxy" here - so I am quite happy with it! Soft pastels on Saunders Waterford rough watercolor paper 18 1/2" x 12 1/2" (47cm x 32cm) 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

Or, in English... "Jelyn Sitting on her Father's Motorbike!" I'm not going to post all the different stages of this one. Surfice it to say, it's on a big sheet of high quality, very rough watercolor paper - and I am really enjoying myself here! (But don't ask me for the brand of paper. I'm hopeless at these things! I buy all the different brands that I fancy, in order to try them out and see which one suits me the best... Then I get the names mixed-up and I don't even know which is which!!)

Here's a recent discovery of mine... Incredible Art Board, from Incredible Art Products, based in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. They don't appear to do mail order but check out their website, (link above,) for more details. I bought a 24" X 32" board at Opus Framing and Art Supplies in Victoria, B.C. (Canada). The thing is incredibly light and extremely rigid - ideal for a portable drawing / pastel painting board!

A small, (27cmX 38cm) landscape that I did as a practice painting. This was based on a photo of a rice field, or "palayan" that I took in Mindanao, during a recent trip to Davao del Sur at planting time. The original photograph can be seen on one of my member's albums at: The artfreaks.com Forums > Gallery > Mindanao The painting was done on a lightweight "Conda" watercolor paper; mostly with Rembrandt pastels but finished off with some ultra soft, super smooth pastels by the German manufacturer, Schmincke. After framing, I gave the painting away as a Christmas 'exchange gift' present to Mr. Theodore "Tio" Abria, one of my shipmates aboard c.s. Wave Venture. (When I went back to the ship, after a couple of month's vacation, I found the painting, abandoned in a cupboard in my cabin... Theo obviously didn't think it was worth the bother of bringing it home!! - Not that I can blame him... Anyway, it was a shame to waste it, so I brought the thing home myself - and subsequently gave it away to one of Lorna's customers at the E. Santos Art Gallery in Ermita, Manila) 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