Wooden Canvas Goodness

I am a Featured Artist at Wooden Canvas! I have a selection of work up for sale on their site, check them out!  In the meantime, here's a sneak preview of pieces on there!

Woot woot!

Process: Love is a Place

I was sifting through old photos this morning and I stumbled upon an album with process photos I took of a piece I did a couple of years ago for a group exhibit called 'Filibata Art Walk', curated by fantabulous Jason Moss. We were basically asked to choose amongst photos taken by 21 photographers, and to intertwine our illustrations with a photo.  A photo of a little girl in a makeshift styro raft spoke out to me, and so it began.  I've been meaning to do process posts for a long time now, since I love reading about how other illustrators achieve their pieces, so here's a quickie and rather instruction-less process post this fine, rainy morning.

This piece is called 'Love is a place'.

An Unwelcome Friend

So I've been listening to a lot of Philip Glass lately. I never thought I'd be this into classical music. I've been illustrating a lot too, since listening to him, and Eric Satie. This is called 'An Unwelcome Friend' based on his composition for the film, The Hours.

Underwater Love

Playing a lot with washes and notions of summer romances lately.

The Sting exhibit

Thank you to everyone who dropped by the opening night of our 16 Female Tattooer Exhibit, Sting, last Wednesday at Kanto Gallery at the Collective. It was a fun fun fun night, filled with old friends, new friends, potential new clients. :) If you haven't dropped by, it'll run for a month, I believe! I hope you can check the stuff out.

Here's a preview of my pieces for the exhibit.

See you around, ok?W

Paintings for sale at AVA.PH!

Hi loves,

I got three of my favorite paintings up for sale at Ava.ph.  These are one-of pieces, the original bits, the actual watercolor and paper! Haha. I hope you like them enough and buy them! I will love love love you forever! :) Enjoy shopping!

Love, W

Fig. 1. Contemplation

All this reading has got me thinking. And drawing.

The butterfly and the bible verse

Can't wait to see them heal. :) Thanks for the photos, Lora and Ruby! Can I tattoo you? W

Strange Times

All children have been told at one time or another by their mothers not to do certain things, go to certain places, or associate with certain people. But every child will have disobeyed at least one of these warnings, and the consequences will have shaped the people they will eventually become.

Strange Times is a loose chronicle of a girl named Lila who is continually disobeying her mother’s warnings. Choosing to err on the side of imagination and exploration, Lila takes risks and lives with the consequences, which can run from the dark to the delightful.

The exhibit is a collaboration between The Curious Studio’s Wiji Lacsamana and award-winning horror writer Yvette Tan, with Tan writing a sentence, Lacsamana painting what she envisioned, and Tan creating a story from the resulting painting and rendering it in calligraphy.

There are strange times in every child’s life, times when reality blurs with imagination. Most children forget this when they enter adulthood. Some, like Lila, chose to live with its scars.

The Collaborators

Wiji Lacsamana of The Curious Studio is a self-taught graphic designer, watercolorist and tattoo artist whose influences include Edward Gorey, Carson Ellis, Yelena Bryksenkova and Jillian Tamaki. The ocean, moon, whales and forest are recurring themes in her work, which constantly explores and intertwines the possibilities between graphic design, contemporary illustration and tattoos.

Yvette Tan writes about anything from food to fashion to personalities to travel. Her horror fiction has won numerous awards, and nowadays, tends to explore the link between food and being frightened.

The Curious Store

I forgot to mention this in the last post but I recently put up an online store for my prints, and well, please visit it if you feel like purchasing stuff from me. There are only a couple for now but it's due to have more prints very, very soon. :)

Here's a sneak peek of what I have literally in store for now:
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I love whales. :)