Angry Beta

 This is a portrait of the beta Ric and I own. He likes  to flare up when he thinks there is a predator near by. But I think we trained him to flare up every time he sees us because we feed him right afterwards. LOL! Another 5 by 5 inch, acrylic painting on sketchbook paper.

 I just added these two pictures using natural light, I think they turned out much better as you can see the different shades of blue.

Representational Still Life: A Rose

 This is an Acrylic on sketchbook paper, 5 by 5 inches. I was inspired to paint this after viewing my friend Mara's entry into the Five By Five art show. Of course, I missed the deadline to enter, but I was still inspired to paint away! Hurray!

Kazi Portrait

 I decided to go simple and just paint away not thinking about adding anything intricate in the background. The reason being, I wanted to just focus on using neutral colors and not add any other bright colors. I seriously did think about adding trees just like the image I used for inspiration. I wanted it to be my own and incorporate a still life appearance to the piece. Let me know if you think I added too much white on the sides. Im still debating on that one. However, I wanted to try to balance out the picture with contrasting colors. What yall think? :-)

Imagination

 This was a painting I have done inspired by a tiger book I had recieved from my sister Therese. It had this beautiful pose of a tiger walking. As I love the image of tigers and enjoy fishing I decided to combine the two! It looks as though the tiger is observing a fisherman from afar. Though in reality, this is not the typical environment of a tiger. These cat's usually roam in tall grass. I wanted to use the color red because it serves as a beautiful sunset though the color red represents the feeling of anger.

 Once apon a time, I took a trip with my family that was living in the Phillippines to visit a Garden. It was not far from the location of Jose Rizal's statue reinactment. I was inspired to paint this from a picture after that day. I thought it deserved to be painted as it looked proportionately balanced with the color formation as we walked through the covered walkway along the garden path.

Addition to Manila series

 As I was viewing my sister Katy's pictures from the Phillippines, I came across this one. I thought it was so beautiful with the trees and plants surounding this little girl. It inspired me to paint this girl as a rememberence of the Phillippines. I honestly do not know much about this girl, no story to tell. Just a girl that seemed happy to meet Katy as she shared Jesus with those she met.

Therese's Crafty Cabana: Pumpkin Mouse House

Check out what my sister is doing! She has an awesome Blog.
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Manila Series

This painting is part of my Manila Series I painted in 2007. I currently have it listed on ebay for those interested. I plan to have more listed on ebay as well. http://www.ebay.com/itm/170890303646?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 this is a link to hopefully get to this item. If not search Acrylic paint on Canvas. This image depicts a boy in Phillippines, appearing content and patiently waiting with his empty plate for his next chance for some food. An overall reminder to remember the poor, and that man can not live on bread alone.

This is the veil i made. I hand-sewed on small beads and roses to create a pretty accent embroidery along the edges. I purposefully kept the square edge to stand out as different and not the traditional round edge. I added sparkle and shine as well along the edges. The shine came from ribbon that I used a sewing machine to add on and the sparkle i used a wash safe glitter and I really like the turn out. My only problem with the veil was when I had dome beads I glued on to add extra sparkle, they snagged on the ground :-( However, when it was spread out delicately it was an overall beautiful finish! The veil is not attached to the tiara, it is attached to a comb, that way i was able to take the veil off for the reception.

Scarves of the Bride's Maids

 Wedding Color Hot Pink, Black, and White Ivory


Bride's Maid scarves

This is a brief view of the scarves I made from scratch for my brides maids to go along with a black dress I hoped they already had hanging in their closet. They turned out lovely. I started out with plain hot pink fabric and learned how to use a sewing machine to create a "rolled hem" stitch for the edges. I added the black ribbon as well using a sewing machine to create a frame overall look. I hand-sewed my sister's name into the fabric while adding beads throughout the name. I also added an intricate image to go along with the dress that I wore on my wedding day.

This piece Honor's Jesus because I used my God given talent to create and save on what would have cost a fortune if I had bought brides maid dresses instead.

My wedding gloves

This piece was originally bought at Clair's at the Mall. This piece contained just the glove itself and the plain white flower top and ruffle on edges. I enhanced it by adding embellishments such as intricate bead work along with sparkles and a rose to top it off. I wanted it to have more shimmer.