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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

Flower painting. Some pretty yellow and white pansies - with some other pretty little orange-coloured flowers!!

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 ☺️

My cutie little Elio ?

At first I'm so nervous but once you try it you can't stop coming back at the top to dive in again, one of the island that we've been during island hopping at hundred island

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

Driftwood beach located at barreto Olongapo City

It looks so calm and steady but I'm telling you once you are in the middle you really have to put your balance.

Mita Rani Das. A beautiful young lady from Bangladesh. This was based on one of Mita's facebook photos with her very kind permission. If you want to see more detail or make a print of this, you can also download the original 5.07MB image file for this in the: Downloads section of this site.

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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

Internationally renowned photographer David Noton very kindly gave me permission to use his photograph Portrait of a girl, Vang Vieng, Laos as the basis for a practise painting - and I did warn him that the results of my efforts would probably end-up bearing very little resemblance to his excellent photo. I wasn't wrong!! If you check-out the link, above, you will see that the subject of the photo was a child - whereas my feable attempt has made her look like a young lady. Still, even though this looks nothing like the girl in the photo, I kind of like her strange expression - and I did have fun trying with this one! The original 1.23MB file of this image can be downloaded in the Downloads module, at: http://www.artfreaks...early-twenties/ Prints and gift items featuring this image are available on ArtWanted.com at: http://www.artwanted...71385&RID=23179

Purely from imagination. The feathers are well 'over the top.' It's a kind of self-portrait... Kind of how I would like to imagine myself as a native North American Indian with my very own style of feathery headdress... Loads and loads of feathers and colors all over the place! If you would like to buy theoriginal of this piece of amateur art, you can check-out the ArtFreaks.com Store to see if it is still available. You can also download the original 1.42MB image file in the ArtFreaks.com Downloads module

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.

From a photo of Mita Rani Das After laying-out the initial colour scheme, I brushed over the different colours with a soft brush dipped in clean water, in order to make a sort of watercolor-type background wash. Photo used as the basis for this painting with the very kind permission of Mita Rani Das

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."

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!

Not quite what I had hoped it would be. (I much prefer Benjamin - One as a painting.) Oh well, you can't win them all! Soft pastels on heavy, 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

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.

The finished painting. Not quite what I had hoped it would be but, anyway, it was useful practise and I hope the next one will be better! I was reasonably happy with the way Jelyn, (the younger of the two girls,) turned out. I like a bit of 'style' or 'artistic licence' in a painting and, no matter how good I may get in the future, I don't think that I will ever attempt to do "photo reallism" in a painting. I really admire the skill and patience of those who do that kind of art but, for myself, I'd rather use my camera for photo reallism...

Now that I had solved the buckling problem, I just sprayed some fixative over the whole thing, waited 20 minutes for it to dry and then started to add further layers of pastel to start filling in some of the detail... I was unable to bring any fixative with me because you are not allowed to bring aerosols or even solvents in bottles with you on the plane... not even in your check-in baggage. However, I was lucky in that, when I arrived on the ship, I found out that we would be in port for some time and I was able to go up the road to buy some proper fixative. Had this not been the case, I was planning to make my own onboard - using some ordinary wood varnish, highly diluted with alcohol. (I have no idea how that would have worked out, never having tried it before - but like I said before, if budget or availability of resources are stretched, you have to make do with what you've got. But don't let that put you off painting!)