Sunday, May 15, 2011

SKETCHES & PAINTINGS


Although I am referring in my header of this blog that sketching and painting are also part of my work of art, I haven't posted any here. Here are some quite old copies of my work. The rest are shown under albums at my Facebook profile. I have to admit, since I have started playing around with 3D (see an earlier blog post here) I have not even once touch a pencil or paint brush at all ... which means for quite some years now I haven't sketched or painted! I have to do something about that, now that I am on pension and have much more time on hand. Even scrapbook I want to start too as this is quite a big attraction for people to store their long-life memories of old photo stock ... almost in story-book style with all the lovely borders and extra elements added to the albums! :)

Just something about my sketch here "Praise the Lord" ... it was done for a competition for our Easter Church Camp that year (1998). The theme: Our vision of the forthcoming camp! I used the AFM logo as part of my sketch as I am a member of the AFM (Apostolic Faith Mission). I won the 1st price, a book: "The Power of Prayer". But this competition was also sad as one of the participants committed suicide just before the camp - he was a Recce and couldn't adapt after that period back into normal life home. Apparently many Recce's (soldiers) have a great ordeal to adapt to normal life thereafter!

The copies of the sketches (pencil/pastel) and watercolours are not good as it wasn't scanned but photographed. Most of them are A3 size and my scanner can only fit A4 size paper.

Here goes: