Am back from Asia trip

I was on a 9-week trip to Asia. This is the reason why this blog was silent for a while. During the trip, I was busy; and even if I have time to sketch or visit my blog, I would rather spend it resting. I got easily tired due to warm weather. Another thing is that internet connection in the place where I stayed is slower than what I am used to, so that made me more not enthusiastic to use my tablet or smartphone in browsing the internet. But I enjoyed the trip. Below are photographs of some plants, etc.

Rose from York

In watercolor, 6x6 inches

Being my favorite flower, I have collected lots of photographs of roses. And this painting was based from a photograph I took while in York in England last year. Hence, I titled it as 'rose from York.'

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.

Jars from Wierdenland museum in Ezinge

I saw these jars from Wierdenland museum in Ezinge, Holland. 

They are some of the archeological artifacts found in the area. 

This painting is done in watercolor.

A rose from a friend's garden

This rose painting is my first painting for 2016. 

It is in watercolor and the size is 6x6 inches. I used as reference my own

photographs which I took last year from our friend's garden. I changed the original 

color of the rose which is soft pink to this blue-violet color.

Happy New Year!

Sunrise in Oil, 24x30 cm, on canvas

I wish all of you blogger friends and visitors of this blog a blessed and healthy 2016! Good luck for the New Year and may you all have a very successful creative times ahead.

I finished this painting last November. It is one of the two oil paintings I painted as a practice in using oil paints. I like using oil paints but I could not take the smell of the mediums that we used during the practice. I might try next time the water mixible oil paints.

Apple for Christmas

With this simple apple, I would like to greet everyone a very Happy Christmas. May you all enjoy all the blessings that the holiday season brings. Thank you very much blogger friends for your continuous visits to this blog. I might not be a frequent visitor to your blogs, but rest assured that when I got the time I will continue admiring and visiting your arts. God bless to you all.

Plumeria flower from my parents farm

This is a 6x6 inches watercolor painting of Plumeria flower from my parents farm. In the farm, there is an old Plumeria tree that gives beautiful colorful flowers just as this painting. The flower in this painting is on the cutted tree trunk.

End of summer rose from our balcony

I managed to paint this 6x6 inches rose - in watercolor - while I was busy practicing in oil paints. This rose was one of the last summer roses from our plant in our balcomy. I hope all of you will have a good and safe weekend.

Oil painting study

Two weeks ago, I joined with other members of our painting club to try oil paints for the first time. With my goal of just knowing how oil paints work, I chose a simple image to paint. So, the above painting is my very first oil painting. In the original, the small trees are much darker, which is supposed to be so as in the reference image I used. I don't know why they are much lighter in this photograph. Right now I am busy  with my second oil painting study - just to be more familiar with using the paints.

More autumn leaves

Picked up these leaves under a tree near my house. Their brilliant colors tempted me to sketch them. The sketch is in watercolor.