Exhibiton

So... this is my first ""exhibition"". I can safely call it that because the dictionary definition of 'exhibition' (thank you Google) is "a public display of art, skills, activities, etc." My paintings may not classify as art or skills but they were certainly born of a heck of a lot of activity, and in any case our front lawn is almost a public space.

Its title was 'com·pas·sion: noun 1. ...'


The individual works were for my Tafe course... so here's the skinny: I realised that this morning I got up, ate breakfast with my family, and went off to learn. This morning a 5-year-old girl woke early to start work on her day's quota of shoe soles.

This morning a boy was kicked awake and shot for deserting.

This morning a farmer sat staring at the dry field that wouldn't be able to feed his children.

This morning a family lived with the knowledge that they were not wanted.

This morning a men, women and children were killed or maimed in genocide.

(it may be harder to see, but near the bottom of the paint there is a small man's profile)

This morning a child walked a kilometre to find water that will only cause him sickness.

This morning a home was filled with water... and the walls came down.

So this morning I learned and looked and knew that the knowledge must become compassion. The compassion must act.

(... I just don't know how yet)

Yes, it is depressing to re-discover that this planet has its problems, but only because Western society desperately tries to convince itself that few-and-far-between problems can actually be solved by the next purchase we make. God doesn't waste time like that; He got Paul to write, "We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." (thanks again Google) ...But I love His plan for saving the world! I got to tell my Tafe class that I believed that the only answer to world suffering is God and Him working through people... it was a bit of an internal 'Yes!!' moment and I pray somehow God will use that.

Well, here are some more pics of my """""exhibition""""". Now, at least, I've got plenty of ideas how to improve it for the next time.

(blowing in the breeze - free?)

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Dear Blog...

I do love you. Really. Please don't take my extended absence as neglect because it's more like... well... ok, neglect.

I shall soon make it up to you by posting some pictures, how about it?

Be Good,
Bec

Book Illustrations

1 member care manual


20 chapters


125 cartoons


Countless pencils and pens and...


1 me.


Here are some of my favourites. This has been a few months-long process, one that I'm so blessed to have been a part of. Shout out to the lovely author of the book :)



































ps. all the drawings are copyrighted to me fyi. No steals :)

Follow-up on my BOW

I can't believe I've neglected this blog since June! True, there has been a few exams and graduations, not to mention a move from the Philippines to NSW, Australia, that have got in the way of anything Internet for me.

So, it was in early July 2009 that I finished my Body of Work and sent it off to my teacher in Oz. I had to get my photos printed and backed by a friend, who did a lovely job. I'll have to upload some of the photos I used onto here. I still don't know exactly what mark my BOW was given, but I got a Band 5 in Art - I was hoping for a Band 6, but a high 5 is close enough!

I need to go wash the dishes, but I'll be back before too long to give a proper conclusion to my BOW and show you what I'm doing now.

(It's to do with book illustration :)

June art

Yet another change in style from Bec!

Well... not really.

These drawings have the same basic feel, which, hopefully, I can tie together with all the other works in the end.

This was sketched in pencil, coloured with watercolours, drawn, shaded and outlined with black gel ballpoint pen and added to with chalk pastel.


Close-up.The second drawing... this was in the same materials and technique, although I left out the chalk pastel this time. My mum really likes this drawing, probably because of the sense of movement in it. I'd also hazard a guess that it reminds her of my sister. That always helps!

Personally I love the way the skirt looks! I also like the basketball (that's what that round thing is).

... And (if you can see it) the raw beginnings of another drawing. I plan to have my spiky-haired guy riding a water buffalo as part of it, with the blonde running (somewhere!) in the foreground.

Finished drawings

The first drawing took me 2-3 days (that is, about 4 hours or less) to finish and was just just after I switched to charcoal as a medium.

Why did I do that?

I was frustrated with pencil because it wasn't giving the firm lines I needed. I swear that the humidity here does something to paper, because at times its fine to use pencil on it, and at other times its basically a waste of time.

I like the sense of movement in this drawing, the energy it conveys, and the slight air of mystery that permeates it. However, the mood seems too dark and oppressive, somehow. The other problem is that I wasn't able to get much detail into the characters.

untitled#1 - watercolour, charcoal, chalk pastel, ink


This is the second drawing I made, which took about the same time and used predominately black ink with some charcoal and chalk pastel, with a watercolour background.

This girl has my sisters hair, which is, I think, why she keeps reappearing.

The pseudo-punk makes his entrance again!