Works of Art Photo Dump

Since I'm too lazy to write and I'm a slave of the Internet:

Photos from World Bodypainting Festival.

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Jonathan Bréchignac drew this Muslim prayer carpet with just a Bic pencil.

More of him here.

Sketching Day 2

Completed the boy's face and the collar of his shirt. I realized now that I should not copy 100% the shading of the original drawing because that's impossible to do. Learning little by little what tone is appropriate in emphasizing shadow and light.

Sketching Day 1

In an attempt to pursue my artistic dream, I bought an exercise book on sketching, a drawing pencil and a sketch pad. Lesson 1 is Gradation.

Tried out different tones of shading and curve lines.

Applied what I learned on my sketch pad.

Started with exercise 1. (Photo refused to rotate)

The Other Side of Laguna

It was a road trip on a Sunday! Geared up, rode the motorcycle and off we went to what I call the 'other side of Laguna'. I grew up in Calamba, went to college in Los Baños but I never got the chance to explore the other towns of Laguna like Mabitac, Pakil, Paete and Pagsanjan. We passed by all these towns on our way to our first stop, the Taytay falls in Majayjay. (The sight was a nice reward after sitting on the motorcycle for three hours)

When we arrived at Taytay falls, the place was filled with families, couples and group of friends camping and swimming. We decided to look around for a spot to eat our packed lunch. We explored more and found this. It's like a clubhouse with interconnected multi-purpose rooms. The place is lovely but I felt bad that it seemed that the local goverment did not continue the maintenance of the building. (It was a big waste of time, money and effort)

It rained a bit (that's why I have sore throat now) but the rain didn't stop us from going to our next stop, the Exotik Restaurant in Kalayaan, Laguna. The restaurant serves Filipino dishes and of course, exotic cuisines. As soon as we sat down, the waiter offered us to try buwaya (alligator), pating (shark) and palaka (frog). We settled for ginataang palaka (frog cooked in coconut cream) to go.

We ended the day watching the football game of Azkals and Sri Lanka (Azkals won!) on TV and had the ginataang palaka for dinner. :)