Yellow Painting

Mixed media on canvas board

This started as a test board. I had too much fun trying different techniques that I almost completed it as a whole painting until, I spilled half a bottle of yellow ink in the excitement of doing this. Sheeshh! Half a bottle of pricey ink gone! That's when I started to scoop up the paint and used it on the test board. It came out as above. Of course I added few other colours and did print transfer to give it depth and focus. Oh, I added texture to it too. I think it came out quite alright. I call it the Yellow Painting :)

Work in Progress

Mixed media on canvas boards

This is my current project. I plan to make three of these and frame in together. So far I have done 2. One more to go. This is inspired by the works of Carla van den Berg. Instead of using the conventional texture paste, I used glue and household putty filler instead. I must say the outcome is more fluid than using the texture paste though the process is more tedious. Right now I'm thinking on the 3rd one. When it's done, I shall update this post and name this project.

This Earth

Mixed Media on canvas.

This is a very big canvas hanging on a wall in my living room now. I love the presentation of this one as the colour choices are minimal and there's texture to it. This painting is an abstraction of our dying earth. The torn ozone, the polluted air and the natural disasters. The earth, in short is wounded. Badly. I'm not sure why I am drawn to paint morbid, unhappy or bleak scenarios. It just happened. Maybe I need to have a more cheerful approach to painting but then again, I paint what I feel. I need to be happy to paint happy pictures, right? I'm not saying I'm unhappy right now. I think I'm just lethargic. I need a long vacation!!!

The Autumn II

Mixed media on canvas

Sheeshh! Another picture taken with camera phone. This is a mixed media piece using acrylic and textured paper. Too bad you can't see the texture here. This painting now also resides in Beverly Heights.

Perching Bird

Mixed Media on canvas

If I could steal this painting back from the owner I would but alas she has paid for it...hehe. This was done using acrylic and paper layers. Very tedious but with satisfying result. I layered thin papers, I scraped, I painted and I layered again and repeated the process. The colours used are iridiscent colours with hint of gold and copper. It now resides in Beverly Heights.