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Orchid Blooms
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
29.7 x 21.0 cm

I nearly gave up on this painting; firstly, I didn't know what to do with the background, and secondly, the paper was irritatingly difficult to work with - it absorbed water and paint too fast, creating ugly splotches here and there :\ Good thing I was able to salvage the painting with acrylic paint; acrylic paint seems to have a consistency that watercolor paint lacks. Or it might be just the case that I had/ have no idea how to work with watercolors. Either way, I'm not very proud of this painting, but I think it turned out okay. The colors are much lighter and softer in real life, though.

This is still for available for sale if anyone's interested. :)

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Hello everyone! I finally purchased a custom domain for my art blog, so please modify your links to:

www.lavinamarie.com

The .blogspot address will automatically redirect to the new domain, but please do change your links, as I'll be implementing some design changes to my site over (hopefully) the next couple of days. :)

Thank you, and have a great day!
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Under My Wing
Watercolor on paper
29.7 x 21.0 cm

This was the highlight of the paintings I submitted for ManilART, and is by far the most detailed watercolor painting I've done. All those TWIGS. -_-

Amazingly, it took me just a little over a week to finish this. At first, I was hesitant to stray from my general theme of flower fairies, but at that time, I had already run out of ideas, so I decided to do something different, and paint a bird fairy instead. It didn't take me long to conceptualize the painting; I'd been itching to work on something with twigs, and painting a nest seemed the way to go. The robin egg idea followed a little later.

'Under My Wing' was marketed in the form of a tumbler for the ManilART event, as well as featured on the ManilART Facebook page, as seen below:


I want to work on something like this again, although I'm currently on an art hiatus; I'm just going through one of those dark-cloud moments of mine, where I lose absolutely all faith in my art. Not healthy at all *.*

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With a few of mine and Valerie Chua's paintings, at ManilART

I can't even begin to describe ManilART. I mentioned in my previous post that I was participating in this prestigious event, and now that the event is over, I still can't believe I was part of it at all.

ManilART is the biggest art event of the year, a chance for leading art galleries in the Philippines to come together and showcase their prized collections, and for budding artists, such as myself, to make their presence in the scene known. This year, the event boasted the participation of 40 major galleries, and over 400 artists - the biggest gathering yet.

I was blessed with the opportunity to be featured as one of the exhibiting artists by Romana Go, ManilART's current art director. She was already an acquaintance of mine; we'd meet time and time again, and I always enjoyed her quirky company. A few months ago, we met again at a party at my boyfriend's house, and during one of the conversations, she suddenly broached the subject about ManilART, how she had been assigned the role of art director. I was thrilled for her, of course, and secretly hoping that I'd be able to visit the exhibit this year. To my absolute horror, she casually mentioned that I be a part of it. Before I could recover, she began talking specifics: what medium I used, how many paintings I had, how many more could I do... by the time the party was over, my mind was abuzz. My participation in the exhibit wasn't set in stone, but I had resolved to produce as many paintings as I could nonetheless. 

The wheels were in motion, however; as I strove to make one painting a week, Romana would contact me for updates and news concerning ManilART. My being part of it still wasn't sure - at least to me it wasn't, but I was forced to think otherwise when out of the blue, she asked me to participate in a press interview for the event at SM Megamall. And everything escalated from there: my artwork was splashed on a promotional ManilART tumbler and sold and given away, I was featured on the ManilART Facebook page (you can see the post here), and my paintings were set up on display at the Moon Dragon Art Gallery booth in the SMX Convention Center.
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