Isle of Fruits

                                     

                    

 After so many delays, this delicious painting is finally completed.

A great experiment in capturing the accuracy of the fruits, as far as the colors and look of them goes.

I couldn't stop drooling over the fruit punch color. Fruit punch is very nostalgic flavor to me, personally.

This would be a great picture for a small grocery store, wouldn't it?

The benefits of fresh air!

An abstract impressionistic acrylic on canvas painting of the water fountain at T.Y. park.

As stated in a previous post, I forgot how much I adore nature. The surroundings help me get creative once again.

On Top of Strawberry, All Covered with Strawberry

Completed this rather simple but still experimental painting of the perspective of a scoop of strawberry ice cream in a bowl.

I'm planning to sell the original to any lucky ice cream business owners whose interested in having it for decoration in their business.

Mt. Vanilla

New canvas painting of the week.

Experimenting with cold colors and dry brush effects of the skies, the clouds and the cold smoke.

Leaning Tower of Pizza

A, what I like to call, "pun painting". 

"The Leaning Tower of Pizza"

An intentionally inaccurate depiction of the famous building in Italy. The original tower has about 6 or 7 stories, but I wanted to put in as many different toppings of pizza on here.

It was great to experiment with a 8x20 canvas, and more fun with rendering the pizza too.

My current emotion the past week

Happy Valentine's Day everyone

Special request painting: "Daiana's Isle"

Yet another special request from a fellow family member:

A nice attempt to paint without any direct reference for someone. Just a nice challenge of experimenting with color theory, perspective, depth, mixed media (acrylic and watercolor) rendering, and, most importantly contributing to all those things, escapism. 

The warm colors, yellow-orange sky, the perspective of the rainbow, different shades of blue of the ocean and the shadow on the ocean as well. 

Admittedly, this is pretty Gilligan's Island-inspired here and, believe it or not, I was singing the theme song to myself the whole time. It's gonna be hard to unlearn it.

♪ Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale ♪ - Oh no, I'm doing it again!

Pencil sketch of the painting

Painting I did for my mother's birthday

A fun 16x20 canvas painting I did for my dear mother's birthday that represents her, her love of organic, nature foods, her personality, among other things.

Took 3 days to complete.

(Pencil sketch)

Colors choices for my painting

Well, after a week of penciling and another week of painting, I finally finished this, just four hours before 2024 came along. I anticipated I would have finished this before Christmas day, but other things came up.

I'm just glad I finished it.

Experimenting with perspective, depth and minimalism.

Here's the pencil version.

Black and white diner food imagery

An experimental black-and-white painting consisting of traditional diner treats. My first attempt to painfully render a painting and my first time messing around with black-and-white colors traditionally. Resulted in finishing a whole week on this lovely art.

Donutville

Boy, this one took the longest to do. Took about a whole week to complete. Had the most fun with this, either way.

This painting is for all the donut and coffee lovers out there.

Eye Glossary

Had a lot of fun with a pretty challenging illustration on a 12×16 canvas. 

This bizarre painting consists of 46 pairs of eyes with different expressions, aside from the generic and more easy to read reactions, such as happy, sad and mad. Experimenting more with impressionism my own way and the observation of everyday life and people.

A few titles that come to mind is "Eyes Speaking To You", "Eye Vocabulary" and "Eye, Eye, Eye", among others.

(Original pencil sketch)

Yet, another beautiful acrylic painting I did yesterdays

Back to doing more acrylic paints. 

This is what I call "Color My Day": from the crack of dawn to nighttime.

Gave me an opportunity to experiment even more with color theory and dry brush effects, too.

Original pencil sketch