Watercolour: Wine, fruit and flowers

My photography mode is still off so I just continue my painting state of mind. As you can see this painting is a very common among still life paintings. The set-up of wine, glass, fruit and flowers can be seen in gazillion paintings before. It’s not unique. It’s not groundbreaking. It’s not a leap of mind. It’s not revolutionary even.
…but it’s realism. And one of the hardest thing to do in transparent watercolour. Since unlike oil, you can not afford to make mistakes with its hues and patch it up with another color later.
It’s easy to paint impressionism, or cubism or abstract if you like. They’re good art. And I admire them too and wanted to try them one of these days.These art styles are even adored and praised around the world, especially with the ‘perception" that it is what today is the so- called manifestation of modern art.

Yeah, maybe realism is passe’. But  what you cannot take from it is that it takes real ability and skill to pull this style off. A skill that doesn’t usually associate with being a visionary or groundbreaking.

I admire artists who tries to be Van Gogh or Picasso. Or painters who splash paints on their paper/canvas with wild abandon to create ‘accidental’ art, but I’m all hands down to the common artist in the street who paint and draw things and people’s portraits and conveys a sense of realism so good, that it’s easy to forget that it takes real talent to get that done.

There’s a very beautiful and vivid essay about Watercolour Painting by Marlene Aguilar that you can read HERE.

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i’ll be going home to the Philippines to do some personal business and get a chance to visit the old folks. will be back in a week’s time, and hope to bring a lot of pictures by then.

Doing it in Pencils

I feel blessed. Simply because I have a job that I love doing. Just recently I’ve explored the medium of Colored pencils as a way to color my drawings, even in the architectural/ landscape ones that I do in my work. I have been returning back to manual renderings at work lately since clients seem to like it more than the 3d rendered ones.

Below are samples of the renderings I did for a project in China under Keppel Inc. They’re done in ink and colored with Derwent high quality pencils. hope you lik them.