Beautiful Couple

My cousins, Manang Shine and Manong Tim. :)

Pencil Sketch
46.5" x 30.5"

Rough Sketch Study

Product of a few minutes of fooling around with a pencil and experimenting with a little bit of color.

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Renovation

This site has been here only for a while, and I noticed I don't post as much about my Jakey. So, I am going to do some tweaking, which has already started.



I already changed my web address to www.kurisko.blogspot.com.


For those who don't speak Hiligaynon, kuris ko means "my scribblings/sketches/nonsense doodles".




This site will mainly be for posting my future, and old artworks. See you around!

Wildflowers (for sale)

So, it was a Tuesday afternoon and I felt like doing some painting. I wanted to try it without the usual sketch and outlining, and go straight to laying on the paint. I have always loved wildflowers and like seeing fields of them scattered around. That was what I decided to do and in 3 hours, I was able to finish it. By the way, this is available for sale. Contact me if interested! :)

Background=sky (blue) and grass (green)

Using the blower to hasten the drying

Adding details to the sky, then the grass using a fan brush

More details on the grass with lighter paint

Red, juicy flowers

Yellow flowers

Blue flowers

Stems are added

Plus more details

Wildflowers
(12"x16")

Final product with the most important part--my signature :)

Novie's "Studio"

When I paint, I like setting up my materials in front of the TV. Yeah, I don't usually have any idea about more than 50% of what it is shown there, but I like hearing something while I work on the canvas. Usually I would pick channels like Disney, because I like being lighthearted when I paint. This is usually what my "studio" looks like.

Essentials:
1. Blank canvas, for obvious reasons
2. Easel for the canvas to sit on
3. Brushes of different types
4. Acrylic paint--I buy big tubes of white and yellow ochre because I use them a lot.
5. Plastic plates are the ones I use as palettes. They are great and they're disposable!
6. Spray bottle to dilute the paint and keep them from drying up
7. 2 cups of water (1 for warm colors, 1 for cool)--I like having 2 cups so I won't have to go back and forth to change the water everytime I change colors.
8. Newspaper to keep the table clean
9. Old rag-I forgot to include that here, but I use that to wipe paint off the paintbrush or remove excess water.
10. Remote control to change channels!

Mike Piazza (Step by step painting)

This is an older project and it was the first time I photographed my progress. I just wanted to post it here again. :)

Mike Piazza according to Wikipedia (Sorry, I'm too lazy to research on him.):

Michael Joseph Piazza (pronounced /piːˈɑːtsə/ or /piːˈɑːzə/;^[which?] born September 4, 1968 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, is an Italian American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played in his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, San Diego Padres and the Oakland Athletics. He is a 12-time All-Star. Piazza is often regarded as the best hitting catcher of all time, and holds the career record for home runs hit by a catcher with 396.

Outlining in Pthalocyanine Blue
(I wasn't able to get a picture of the pencil sketch part.)

Filling in the background

Coloring the big image
I always start from the farthest object to the nearest.

Coloring the small image on the foreground

Details are added to the face and I'm done!

Forever, Me & You (Step by step)

[Click on the pictures for a full view]

I learned a few weeks ago that there will be an inter-stake art contest this coming September. I had been meaning to use my blank 24x36 canvas (which had been laying around for months) for something, but wasn't sure what to do.

So I finally had my answer--make a painting that had something to do with family history. I chose to do a significant event/occasion and paint my favorite wedding picture. I documented my progress and after 17 days, here it is. Wish me luck!

Preliminary pencil sketch


Outlining with cobalt blue paint

Painting the background

Filling in a base paint for the temple and ground


Working on the temple


After the temple came the fence, bushes and ground, then the people


Next came the dress and bouquet

I wasn't contented with the sky so I played around with it.

Final product is posted above!


What did you think about this? Let me hear from you!

Bringing Home the Puppy

January 2009. We greeted our New Year with a new dog. At 6 weeks old, we took home our brindle puppy, which my husband named Jake. He braved the hour-long drive by snoozing snugly on my lap. When we finally got home, he celebrated by pooping right next to the car.

Jake was the pick of the litter, so we got to choose him among all his other brothers and sisters. We didn't see him when we first got inside the house of the breeder, because he was under the pile of sleeping puppies. With all the puppies jumping around, it was hard to choose at first! There were light brown brindles, and dark brown ones. Their energy can be categorized into active, super active, and way too much active. We finally settled on the biggest dark brown boy, who I can say fell into the super active level.


Jake's first night was a sleepless one for me. We had prepared the kitchen with a doggie gate so his mess would be easy to clean up. After playing with him for a while, we called it a night and put him in his temporary space. Of course, he immediately whined to be let out. We did not want him sleeping with us, so we sharply shushed him and he quieted down. A few minutes later, he started whining again. The whining and the shushing went on for a while until Jake realized there was nothing he can do about it but fall asleep. About an hour later, he started whining again. I got out of bed to check on him, and on the floor was a nice pool of pee, gleefully waiting for me. After mopping up the floor, I took him outside to pee some more, played with him for a little bit, and put him back in. The shush-whine war promptly began after that, and the cycle repeated after every hour or so. By sunrise, I had slept for a total of 3 hours, and that was totally expected for a puppy owner's first night.