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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

Getting ready for work!! Just another night in Soi Cowboy, Bangkok! I am sure this girl has something else to wear. But this is where she works. The evening is just revving-up - and she thinks nothing of walking around in just her bra and panties, while buying some new clothes for the night!

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

Saging (bananas), pakwan (water melon), manga (mangoes), kalamansi (limes) - at iba pa!! Still life depicting tropical fruits from the Philippines. (H 60cm x W 90cm) oil on canvas by Mike Herrera

Sunset over the mountains. located at Mt. Mapalad antipolo rizal

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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

The Victoria Rose Inn Gananoque Ontario You can see the photo on which this was based at: http://www.artfreaks...anoque-ontario/ (Copied with Jim's very kind permission - and I hope I didn't make too much of a mess of this!) You can see more detail if you download the original 1.64MB file in the Downloads section of this site, at: http://www.artfreaks...toria-rose-inn/

Red Lilly flowers

"Millie", EBT 12 Baldwin Mikado - from an excellent photo by Jim Appleman. (Original photo used with Jim's very kind permission.) You can see the original photo on which this painting was based at: http://www.railpictu...o.php?id=272453

I met these two lovely girls on a short trip to Bangkok during March, 2006 I need to get back to Thailand for another photo shoot... 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 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

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...

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/

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

From a photo of Mita Rani Das This is at the end of my second session with the painting. Photo used as the basis for this painting with the very kind permission of Mita Rani Das

Just a quick pastel painting of a Filipina teenage girl, cellphone in-hand, texting away in the doorway of a rural cottage where I used to visit in the Southern Philippines. From one of my own photos. I don't know why but I can never seem to get the faces right on either of the two youngest sisters in that family... 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 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

The fourth and final stage. At this point, I realized that the painting wasn't going to get any better with any more work. I probably would have spoiled the thing completely if I'd tried to do any more with it, so I just signed it and left it as it is.

From a photo of my friend, Mr Timothy Penycate's German Shepherd (Alsatian) dog. I took the photo when I was out for a walk in the woods with Benj - and I think the excitement shows clearly on his face!! Soft pastels on Waterford rough watercolor paper 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

Soft pastels on rough watercolor paper. 21 1/2" x 14" (54cm x 36cn) From one of my own photos of some rice fields in Mindanao, taken just before the planting season. Started some time in 2009 (September, I think?) Finished in June 2010!! This painting could have been done in a couple of days. (I made a rough outline in pastel and went over this with a water wash in order to tone the background - so I had to wait a day for that to dry... Otherwise I could have finished this in a few hours...) It took me about 9 months!!! I dunno... I just couldn't seem to find the time for painting. And when I did have the time, I couldn't get in the mood. Anyway, I am glad it is finished now and I have already started the next one. (My next painting is erotic art and it doesn't meet the Guidelines for this site. So you will not see it here, even if I ever do get around to finishing the thing!!) 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

Still not quite what I wanted... In many ways, more scary than my "Manic-Depressive" version of this painting in Tussinee - 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

Another practice painting. This one was done on a 12" X 16" sheet of Canson Mi Teintes pastel paper. (The background color of the paper was a light, pinkish-grey). I took the photograph, on which this painting was based during a visit to Mindanao, in the Southern part of the Philippines during May of 2006. The photograph that this painting was based-on can be found at: Photography Forums for Photo-artists > Gallery > People and portraits > Teenagers 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

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