There is this certain person that I
fancy right now. In Filipino or Espanol or something, his name would be Esteban Montemayor, but in real life, he's Stephen Montgomery. He's sweet, understanding, and he is willing to learn the culture of the person he lover. He has deep blue eyes that could strike you in some way you can not explain. He is perfect! He's extremely tall, which is a plus. He's kind of ignorant and arrogant, but you know my taste. I din not sleep last night because of him (and his wife, damn it.) and by the time I looked at the window, I saw light. The sun. 6:00 AM. That's how his charms work, that Englishman. The only minus here is...
...he's a fictional character. HAHAHA. Wish the guy was real. I got addicted to my Mom's old novels. All those chic lits we read now are actually no match for those historical novels. You better raid your Mom's old things too. Ang publishing date nung book ay 1990 or so,
Mainland Velvet by Jude Devaleuxblahblahblah. I can't remember the spelling but I remember the D and the eux.
Finally, nakatulog ako ng 6:30, book hang-over (!!!) But my Mom does not know about the book. She would freak out if she knew I was reading her
ROMANCE novels.
Today was a day of errands:
1) They woke me up at 9:30. By 30 minutes, I must be ready, I MUST get ready for we will leave! I got ready in 28 minutes, yes, I counted. But they came only 30 minutes after. Because of lack of sleep, I fell asleep while reading another Jude De___eux book.
2) We stopped somewhere which I reckoned was PLDT but then I was sleeping and I didn't really see, I just heard them talking. Turns out, we were at Hulaballoons to get party things for--Hmm, I don't really know?
3) Here's the real PLDT stop. While Mom was there to have them put our forsaken telephone line back, we got gas and pan de sal (which I didn't eat for I was on a diet). Ang TAGAL, we waited for an hour or so. Nakaaway pala ni Mommy ang lawyer nila. Go Mom! He was threatening to cut the line and our friends, relatives and business partners could not contact us coz we were not paying our bills, and my mom wrote him back saying "Why should we pay for a line that is not working (causing the inconvenience that our
friends, relative, and business partners could not contact us) because of the poor quality of service your company is rendering us." GO MOM! You rawk and kill the pride of that sonnawabitch lawyer.
4) We went to the painting place and I looked around while my Mom talked to the "instructors" showing them my work.
Here are some of my favorite paintings which I illegally took pictures of, sorry I can't remember their artists!
"Angry Chair"
Palette knife technique at some points, and just a mixture of different colors and shades using thick strokes. When you look at it closely, it seems like a nonsense blending and combination of strokes, but as you mover farther, you'll begin to see the clarity of the picture. My Dad won't really like this, he'll think it's too messy.
This is kind of huge, about 5 feet in width. It's layers of very thick paint and it's similar to the technique of the "Angry Chair". LOTS of contrast here!
Did you guess this was watercolor? It's a darling. I'd bet this took weeks to finish.
ANG TYAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. =)) Oil or acrylic. I quite forgot. Haha!
And here are
MY paintings. I'm very sad that I didn't pursue it during the year. But, now that's all gonna change! I'm very happy too! The artists like my work, they said it has potential, for a 15 year old. Fine. :D
My very first painting. I did one object for a whole hour or so each. I had models, but not all together. One at a time, took a lot of days.
Palette knive all the way, well, except for the lake. Surprisingly quick to be done. 2 seatings lang. :D
The last one I did. The picture I copied was one of watercolor. Took SO long since it's annoyingly hard and discouraging.
I just realized that I haven't named any of my paintings. 3 of them are in the States with my Tita and Lola. I forgot how they looked like exactly. It's very disappointing how people don't believe that I was the one who painted those things. I DID FOR GOD'S NAME. And you can not tell me that it was my mentor who painted most of it, FYI (directed to those
dear relatives) he left me on my own and came back only to criticize. It's quite insulting. :( I worked my ass for that but they wouldn't believe me. :(
Here are more of my works that I gave my Tita, and they's now in the States.
This is acrylic. Fast, 30-45 mins
Low quality picture, phone was crappy then. :D It took a whole lot of will power to do this, it began as a dirty work that looked like abstract.
This is my personal favoite. A shame it's not with me anymore. I took the picture right after I finished it! :)
Enough of my senseless obssession over paint an on to the errands. :)
5) Ateneo to see the SEP registration etc. But it wasn't even starting yet. =) It'll open on April 2. I saw Bianca Reyes there and did the usual cover-her-eyes thing I usually do. Bakit madaming tao kanina? Kuhaan ba ng card or graduation? I have no idea.
6) Shakey's. MOJOS. Enough said, really. Oh yeah, I don't like their cheese pizza, Sbarro still tops my list when it comes to cheese and bread baked together. *Drool.*
7) Center for Culinary Arts for my sister's enrollment. She's taking up Asian Cuisine for 5 hot April days. I'm not enthusiastic about cooking, so I'll remain to be her taster. HAHA! :D Heck, I'm afraid of oil. Oh yeah, I loved the place. I can go there everyday!
8) Megamall to: A) Enroll Arianne for Ice Skating or Figure Skating, I'm not really sure. And B) Buy my art materials! Here's what I got from National (here we go again, skip this part if you want :p) 5 round bristle brushes and 5 flat bristle brushes (Bristle is pig hair, the Philippines have so many pigs slaughtered every day, why can't we make use of the hair instead of letting it rot with the body, no no, it won't rot coz we eat it. Why can't we not throw it and create bristle brushes) 1 bottle of linseed oil, 1 bottle of turpentine, 1 canvass, 1 huge tube of Lefranc & Bourgeois titanium white oil paint (Siyeeeet, Lefranc! Screams in wildness!), 1 huge tube of Winsor and Newton lemon yellow oil paint (I have not tried this brand.), 1 set of chalk pastels (useless, I now know, not good quality.), a torchon, and a sketchpad. We went to the department store and I got another sketch pad (for the chalk pastels), a wooden palette (the plastic one's best, but I can't find a flat one.), and something else, I can't remember.
9) Sta. Lucia National Bookstore to get a set of oil paint. Just Reeves, nothing special. I must not completely depend on and blame the material for my paintings. A painter paints with whatever he has and does not stop because of lack of materials. You have to be creative, you know. I was told that I should not get the best materials but the poorest of them all. So I followed and got the brushed that cost P15 each. I also got myself a palette knife, I hope my old one's still with me, I really like the quality of that one.
10) Tita Lau's house, but she was not there. SAD, so we went home. We couldn't very well wait for her coz my Mom is kind of dizzy already. :) SAYANG. :( I wanted to spend time with them. My Mom's best friends!
11) Some bank to withdraw money, the damned woman in maroon took fifteen or more minutes without courtesy to the ones next in line. It took SO long. I couldn't sleep though.
I'm not home, wanting sleep but desiring to read the books I have! 3 Lois Lowry books (The Giver, The Messenger and Gathering Blue), Jude D____x's Mountain Laurel, The Bride which I also found inside Mom's dusty book cabinet that contains hundreds (literally :|) of novels, Artemis Fowl: Eternity Code, Pride and Prejudice (which is Trish's but I'll read it all the same) and some more of my Mom's old books.
What a nerd. :)
I'm oogling my materials right now, it's a dream come true. I've wanted this for three months. Wanting it secretly. Yet my Mom seemed to have read my mind! On Tuesday, we'll go to Mr. Ato Habulan (sp?).
OH JOY. What a summer ahead of us! Woah, my only concern now, how the hell will the driver survive? AND OH, ONE MORE, how will my teeth survive? Gahd.
<3, BEE
"Angry Chair"
This is kind of huge, about 5 feet in width. It's layers of very thick paint and it's similar to the technique of the "Angry Chair". LOTS of contrast here!
Did you guess this was watercolor? It's a darling. I'd bet this took weeks to finish.
ANG TYAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. =)) Oil or acrylic. I quite forgot. Haha!
My very first painting. I did one object for a whole hour or so each. I had models, but not all together. One at a time, took a lot of days.
Palette knive all the way, well, except for the lake. Surprisingly quick to be done. 2 seatings lang. :D
The last one I did. The picture I copied was one of watercolor. Took SO long since it's annoyingly hard and discouraging.
This is acrylic. Fast, 30-45 mins
Low quality picture, phone was crappy then. :D It took a whole lot of will power to do this, it began as a dirty work that looked like abstract.
This is my personal favoite. A shame it's not with me anymore. I took the picture right after I finished it! :)
