December252011

Christmas gifts

My presents for my family due to lack of money to buy normal gifts.

This one is for my parents. I intentionally made it more traditional looking, avoiding my tendency to paint surrealist figures. They don’t like surrealism. 

This one was inspired by the sketch drawn by Jim Carries’s character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. I wanted to depict my brother inside a bus, i don’t know why, given that he usually rides taxis. I admit, there is a bit of a dark feeling in this one. Well commuting isn’t really sunshine and rainbows isn’t it?

This one was inspired by Frida Kahlo’s painting, Self portrait with cropped hair. The people on floating beds depict his patients. When I explained this painting to my brother, I accidentally said that the patients are in heaven. But I didn’t paint this with dead patients in mind. I don’t really know what’s my deal with skies and floating figures. I just like how they look. That’s why I paint them.

Three paintings in three days. Now that’s tiring.

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BIOMME, 2011
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Cover page for an issue for our org’s publication, the BIOSPHERE (2011). This was the freshman issue. 

Cover page for an issue for our org’s publication, the BIOSPHERE (2011). This was the freshman issue. 
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October, 2010

October, 2010
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Bio Mr. and Ms. Earth, 2010
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A gift for my Mom.

A gift for my Mom.
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A gift for my brother on his birthday last October.

A gift for my brother on his birthday last October.
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Untitled I painted this when I felt so angry about something. I am the type who bottles up my anger, that’s why I portrayed myself as a bottle. The burning house represents the consequences on the people around me as my emotions slowly seeped from my containment.

Untitled

I painted this when I felt so angry about something. I am the type who bottles up my anger, that’s why I portrayed myself as a bottle. The burning house represents the consequences on the people around me as my emotions slowly seeped from my containment.
7AM
Balloon As a reaction to my parents who worried about my mental health because of the overly dark mood of my paintings, I painted something nice. And aren’t balloons just pretty and nice? Though someone said that this piece still exuded a feeling of sadness nonetheless. Well actually, back then, I only found inspiration to paint whenever I was sad. I think I can safely say that I wasn’t depressed or mentally unfit back then. I guess. 

Balloon

As a reaction to my parents who worried about my mental health because of the overly dark mood of my paintings, I painted something nice. And aren’t balloons just pretty and nice? Though someone said that this piece still exuded a feeling of sadness nonetheless. Well actually, back then, I only found inspiration to paint whenever I was sad. I think I can safely say that I wasn’t depressed or mentally unfit back then. I guess. 
7AM
Restful After downloading a hypnosis app in my iPod, I felt this sense of utter relaxation that I’ve never felt before. It felt so good that I felt I had to capture the feeling by painting it. It exactly felt like the painting, floating on a vast, calm and dark ocean.

Restful

After downloading a hypnosis app in my iPod, I felt this sense of utter relaxation that I’ve never felt before. It felt so good that I felt I had to capture the feeling by painting it. It exactly felt like the painting, floating on a vast, calm and dark ocean.
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