A Crayon’s Life Is On CSS Mania
A Crayon’s Life is featured on CSS Mania last week, June 22.
Now let me tell you a little story on how A Crayon’s Life Version 2 was created.
Crayon’s Life On CSS Mania
Coming back to Singapore from my home in the Philippines last January has been one of the most difficult moments of my life. Returning from a one-month hiatus, fresh from your father’s funeral is not a very good way to start the year. They say that mourning has its own cycle and one has to go through the stages of anger, denial, acceptance and healing. I’m still lurking behind the denial stage and I did what I do best whenever I find myself balancing between grief, pain, loneliness and denial: I draw.
I tried to focus all my energy and concentration on getting things done. At the top of my list is my web re-design. On weekends, I shut myself [...]
Bangkok: The City of Angels – Part 2
BANGKOK
After spending 3 nights in Ko Samet, we went back to Bangkok around dinner time. We realized that we have spent a lot of our time traveling, riding boats, buses, taxis and trains, and we were really tired so we just decided to chill and relax at the hotel.
We only have a whole day to explore the city, so we woke up early the next morning and once we stepped out into the “City of Angels’, my senses were assaulted with a gamut of exciting colours, textures, flavours and smells unique to Thailand and its gracious people.
We visited some of Thailand’s famous landmarks and we took our time to take in all the grandeur and their madness for details evident in their massive structures.
We spend around six hours in trying to visit all these landmarks, which we think will never be enough. You would really need a few days to [...]
Bangkok: The City of Angels – Part 1
Aaron and I are used to navigating mountain trails back home in the Philippines. We have been active mountaineers for the last five years before I left home to work abroad. Last March, we decided to travel and navigate a city where we haven’t been before. We decided to visit the ‘City of Angels’.
We want to think that we belong to the “backpacker” kind of people and view this trip as our own little piece of adventure. I bought the book, “Bangkok City Guide” from Lonely Planet’s series of Travel Guide Books and created our own itinerary. So on the 13th of May, after some rigorous planning, Aaron slung his backpack on and flew all the way from the Philippines to Singapore to meet me. We boarded the Jetstar plane bound for Bangkok around 7:30 pm and arrived at the Suvarnabumi Airport after two and a half hours.
Navigating through the [...]
Crayon’s Watercolours
When I was still at the university taking up my Fine Arts course, I would hover around this glass cabinet that to me, looks like a “refrigerator” located inside the National Book Store in SM North Edsa (Philippines). Inside these refrigerators are premium painting and drawing supplies such as Dewart, Winsor & Newton and Carandache brands. In my eyes, those are my kind of highly-coveted objects of desire – something that is a bit too expensive for a typical student like me.
I managed to get myself a set of Carandache coloured pencils (I’ve purchased it some 10 years ago) and a small box of Carandache chalk pastels.
my 10-year old Carandache Coloured Pencils, a remnant from my Fine Arts days.
After 8 years of leaving the university, I’ve been carried away by this wave called “work” and somehow, I haven’t created a “serious” artwork since then. The realization that I’ll be [...]
