Butterfly!

This is a mixed-media work combining drawing, coloring using oil pastels and watercolor pencils, painting using acrylic paint and forming exercises using old newspapers.

It took me just an hour to assemble everything: roll the newspapers and paint them to resemble a branch of a tree, draw my butterfly on an old newspaper which is then formed and cut by Lui, which I later stuffed with rolled newspaper cut-outs, painted with acrylic paints, and assembled on an illustration board which I colored using oil pastels. Then, using colored art paper, I made several butterfly figures and decorated them using oil pastels. I also made leaves and the sun which I colored with pastels and then Lui helped me assemble everything on the board!




Acrylic paints, colored pencils, pastels, newspapers, art paper and illustration board.

Two Birds, Two Works!

These are two interpretations of a bird in a tree. It is an exercise in combining form and different materials. It is a painting and a sculpture combined!



On this plate, I used old newspapers for the tree branches which I made by rolling the newspapers and later painting it using acrylic paint. Then I made separate drawings of the different parts of the bird like wings, face and beak on colored paper. Lui cut these colored papers for me which I then assembled and pasted to form the bird. I also made a drawing of the sun which Lui cut for me again and later assembled on a colored cartolina. I added leaves and other decorations to complete this mixed media painting!



This second plate is the same bird but this time I only used oil pastels on cartolina.


I made one drawing on two separate plates!

Mixed Media Geometrics!

I love drawing different shapes and coloring them using different materials like colored pencils, oil pastels and acrylic paints. For this session, I combine sculpture work with my painting. I used old newspapers to draw and form my shapes. My teacher Lui cut the drawings I made on the newspapers and helped me insert folded newspapers inside the drawings to form 3-D shapes. I made a frame on a board using the same drawings as my design. Then I assembled these sculpture drawings on this board and later painted it using acrylic paint.

Happy 2010!

This is my 2010 fireworks in four different media done in one session.



Acrylic paint on white glossy paper.



Watercolor pencils on glossy paper.



Acrylic paint on canvas sheet.



Acrylic paint on glossy paper.