So I did this painting just last month(Feb). I haven't done any paintings in a while, so this was refreshing. It took me about two hours to complete including the drying time of the background.
This simple painting consist of just 6 acrylic colors (Yellow, Red, brown, dark brown, black, and white) and masking tape. I'm selling this painting on Etsy.
This past January, my son turned 2. I'm beginning to understand what terrible 2's are. I could not relate before with other parents, but now I can...lots of crying, smiling, silliness, and testing your patience. Thanks to my wife for playing the piano for background cover music. Song is called "Summer" composed by Joe Hisaishi.
Grave of the fireflies is probably the most depressing movie I've ever seen. Its a movie I believe you should only see once because its that sad. I'm not sure why I watched it again. This movie makes me think about the innocent children dying because of war, hunger, homeless people, people who complain about little things when some don't even have anything...all at once. I think my sensitivity level have gone up when it comes to children ever since I had a kid of my own and after seeing this movie.
Grave of the fireflies movie came out in 1988. It was a Japanese animated film based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story by Akiyuki Nosaka during the second world war. It was written and directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli.
Its a story about a teenage young boy named (Seita) and his little sister (Setsuko) struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. I can just imagine all the pain, and sadness during those times.
This will probably be the longest artwork I've ever done. It took me about 10 months to finish this thing. I started it November 2016 and finished early September 2017. I hope I become motivated again to do another stippling piece since it takes a lot of time and patience.
This is a timelapse video I made to show the painting process from beginning to end of my baby boy's nursery room. It's the holidays(the week before new year's day), so we are in and out the house visiting family and friends, so it took me over three days to finish the whole process including the crib assembly towards the end. Thank you to Danny and Michelle for the crib.
Credit to my wife with the background music for playing and recording it on the piano. (Heart and Soul by Frank Loesser)
I started doing some stippling art the last couple of days and I'm starting to enjoy it as well. The first two subjects I did were very easy. The Superman and Batman symbol. It took me about an hour and a half each of them to complete each of them.
