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 [...]
A Crayon’s Life
This site pays homage to the humble crayon. A life shared with many children (and some adults). A small but colorful textured life.
My love affair with crayons started when I first held it in my little hands. Its one of those precious little things you can have as a child. I use them to draw stick figures on pad papers with big red and blue lines and our home’s walls. I imagined that it can change forms through heating and melting by placing them on top of burning candles. I placed them on little plastic cups from Jelly Ace to serve as molds. To my delight, my crayons turned to little cupcakes and a “Curly Tops-ish” chocolate with its round, curly mold.
I discovered watercolor and colored pencils in my pre-teen years, color pastels and charcoal in my high school days. In college, poster color came into my vocabulary. I learned [...]
