The January Makers PH team has another event coming up this weekend! Please join us for “Pagtitipon 5: Kaligrapiya, Art Tambay, at Iba Pa.” at SM Aura on July 22. The participating members of January Makers PH will be: Jean (owner of seamountainco), Monique (food illustrator), Hannah (various illustrator), and I (floral illustrator). ♥
See you there! ♥
First of all, I would like to apologize for the lack of posts. I’ve rekindled my addiction to Ragnarok Online lol. We’re in Thor server! Weeks after our bazaar, I’ve met up with old & new artist friends for an art tambay.
The first art tambay was during the Art Mod event at Megamall with Clair aka claircolors, Priane aka priichanpanda, kiyasurin, and Yin aka lostlibraryin. We looked for a vacant coffee stall and had our art tambay there. This is what I did during our art tambay:
Sunflowers again.
I also taught them how to paint sunflowers and hydrangea but I don’t think I’m an effective teacher. The only thing they learned was Step 1: Draw a circle lololol. I also let them try my seamountainco set. I’m also interested in Priane’s White Nights watercolor set. Apparently the price is a good deal for the amount and quality. You can get them at Deovir.
I did this one during my art tambay with my cousin.
The next art tambay was at Greenbelt Makati with Jan Makers PH Jean & Monique, Shine aka tingeofshine, and Andrea aka mabuhaydiy. I also invited other people but they were all busy huhuhu. This was a productive art tambay since everyone were all busy painting. We didn’t do this for a long time! It was refreshing lolololol. Andrea also let me try her handmade watercolors: the Mermaid gold and Rose gold. It made my sunflower painting soooo sparkly! ♥
Sunflowers & Eucalyptus leaves are my current favorites.
Another attempt at peonies.
We also did an activity where we exchanged and painted on all papers using our seamountainco products. This was a bit challenging since our timer was only set to 3 minutes each. It was fun though! We all got a souvenir to take home. This is a great idea! We could do this every art tambay next time. ♥
Our seamountainco sets and artworks. ♥
I can’t wait for the next one! ♥
The week after our first bazaar, we joined another one! This is Maker’s Market at Century City Mall Makati. We were located on the fourth floor this time. And instead of 3, Hannah finally joined us! So the members of January Makers PH who joined were: Jean (owner of seamountainco), Monique (food illustrator), Hannah (various illustrator), and I (floral illustrator). ♥
Table Set up! ♥
Another bazaar meant new challenges. Since we were located on the fourth floor open area, we had to take extra care of our products in case it got windy. It was a good thing that we got tape.
The first day table set-up. ♥
I didn’t get to take much photos during the event. But our social media feed were updated. HAHA. Here are some of our posts:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BU31D8zAo2H/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BU5zwhmgM0O/
The last night.
We were in between beadsmustbecrazy, handmade by zaza, and Nifty store PH. Some of the sellers from the previous bazaar were also present here. My professor’s booth – Ubots were located at the ground floor. I also introduced my friends to madebykca‘s semi precious stone jewelry.
Thankful. ♥
Overall, this one was more tiring and challenging. We still had a lot of fun though. We also learned a lot here through experience and advice from fellow bazaar peeps. ♥ For now, the January Makers will take a break to replenish stocks & create more art for future bazaars.
As for me, I have to go back to the interior design world for a while. HUHU. I hope I could still squeeze some time to make more art.
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The January Girls PH had our first bazaar at Gawang Kamay PH! This has kept me busy for the last few days that I didn’t get to finish the 9th anniversary posts on time. Jean (owner of seamountainco), Monique (food illustrator), and I (floral illustrator) were the only members of the January Girls present who sold our items. I think we did a good job!
Our 1st table set up. ♥
The bazaar was located at the far end of UP Town Center, at the building with the cinema. Due to miscommunication, we started setting up on Day 2 of the event. We were located near the stage area, so I’m sorry for the blueish colors of the photos. I did try to tweak them in Photoshop though.
Day 1 table set up. ♥ These are my postcards, stickers, and original art!
These are my sticker sets: Rainy Set, Sunny Set 1, Sunny Set 2. ♥ They’re all Cut-it-yourself sticker packs.
My mini stickers. I cut them all myself! It was weirdly relaxing cutting all around the sunflower petals.
On the left side is Monique’s food stickers, postcards, and art prints. ♥ I super love her chichirya set!
On the right side is seamountainco! I bought her Purple Ochre color to add to my seamountainco set. ♥
The stage with the strong blue lights & loud club music. HAHA.
Our “rushed” logo HAHA. Floral wreath is mine. The pretty girl was created by Jean. ♥
Overall, it was a really good experience. We learned a lot of things for the next bazaar. We also met a lot of people. I’d like to thank my friends & family who went and supported our event. ♥ Fellow January Girls member Hannah (naks) who went during the 2nd day & helped us with our table.
We decided to change our name to January Makers PH after this bazaar. HAHA. So it would look more professional. Anyway, the next bazaar we applied to was Maker’s Market! Which will be my next post.
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I’ve been trying to diversify my knowledge of floral watercolor aside from sunflowers. Though its not my favorite flower, I always paint this due to the reason that I think its the easiest HAHA. I noticed that some of the more popular flowers are peonies, roses, and other flowers with complicated petals. I did attempt to paint those like these examples:
Found in a previous post.
But impatience got the better of me. Sigh! And I think asides from that, I need to really take time to sketch instead of making squiggly lines. One of my former office mates just suggested that I’d let my IG friends guess the flower, and so I did with this artwork:
This is a peony. ♥
Recently, I’ve asked people from Instagram for suggestions on what I should paint. Here are some of those that I finished:
The CBTL Table. ♥
Poppies as requested by Frances.
Bar area. ♥
Stargazer Lily as requested by Claircolors.
Asphodelus as requested by Sydney (my cousin).
Couldn’t help painting bouquets!
Carnation is my favorite flower ♥.
Last week’s #MondaysMadeBetter (finally went on a Monday HAHA) art tambay was composed of my cousin & I, plus a random Hannah appeared. During our art session, there was this little girl who was looking at us painting. So I invited her to paint with us! I taught her how to paint my favorite sunflowers. After that, I asked her “What flower do you want to draw next?”. She replied with “Roses”. Eeep.
That’s one of the reasons why I want to learn more flowers. So I could teach people the simplest way to draw realistic flowers (instead of combined rose macaronis). They were challenging, but they taught me a valuable lesson: being patient!
Here’s to more floral diversity. HAHA. ♥
Sydney and I went to the newly opened CBTL branch at Banawe last week. I was supposed to blog about this on Monday to mimic the current hashtag of CBTL Philippines. But we went there last Tuesday so might as well make a parody of it lol. I love the place! It gave ample sunlight that brightened the interior, which in turn made our watercolor session easy.
My Hydrangea postcard that I gave to the baristas. ♥
I painted sunflowers that day. ♥
Sunflower cone & sunflower stems. ♥
I’ve been thinking of organizing an Art Tambay session for the North peeps. Any suggestions on coffee shops / cafes? 🙂
April is my birthday month. ♥ I did a lot of things recently. Let me photoblog them below:
Art Tambays with my cousin. ♥ This is 90% seamountainco colors! The green is from Winsor & Newton Cotman.
Art in the Park weekend with Hannah, Ruth, Jean & Monique. ♥ This is my artwork during our stay at CBTL. The color I used for the hair is #Jeandigo.
2nd painting from Art in the Park. I was explaining to Ruth that I suck at other flowers (as shown here LOL). I must improve!
Inggo had some leftover photo paper. I printed these as postcard samples but the paper was too slim. They look nice, don’t you think ? ♥
Days after my birthday. I met up with Hannah at Serenitea. ♥
I’ll never tease Hannah about her androgynous drawings ever again! I tried painting a guy this time. It was so hard!
More floral practice. ♥ Left: Hydrangea that I tried to be detailed but got lazy LOL. | Right: I just let my IG friends guess what flower this is. The reference is a peony though!
Left: A gerbera painting that is “too light”. | Right: This is a “rose”. I liked the way the leaves look though!
Some paintings I did at a cafe nearby Inggo’s place. ♥ This is at Fecha de Cafe, Kamias.
This isn’t even 50% of what I did for April. (But these were the art related stuff). I availed every birthday promo that I knew of during my birthday. We tasted different cuisines at Madrid Fusion Manila & had a fantastic dinner at Izakaya Kikufuji, Little Tokyo. Did a lot of sketches during Holy week.
The January Girls are currently preparing something exciting. ♥ I can’t wait to blog more about it!
When was the last time I did a compilation post? I think its been months. So here are some artworks I did during December last year up to March. These are the artworks that weren’t featured in previous blog posts.
Self portrait in different styles.
Watercolor test on a local paper brand. I hate it so much lol.
Fabriano paper test. This is the 63php pack that I found at Fullybooked. They also sell it at National bookstore. Both sides are okay for watercolor. Currently loving this brand. ♥
More portrait practice. Left: Berkeley watercolor paper | Right: Monologue notebook.
Sunflower art I did when Hannah came over to visit one day at home. ♥
I need to make more art. I’m running out of blog posts HAHA.
After a week, I’m still on the #JAWInk2017 & #CampJAWI high. ♥ This event was great! We went on Saturday at around 1pm and the venue was crowded compared last year! There were a lot of booths again selling watercolor & calligraphy materials.
Community Art Wall.
First agenda was to visit Agueda Manila‘s booth again. Thanks to Dandi for reserving the square pieces for Hannah and I! ♥
Lezz do this. Colors were food coloring.
Finished product ♥ Mine on the left / Right is Hannah’s.
Community art wall again. These are 4″ x 6″ postcards created by various watercolorists. The freckled girl left of Sailor Moon is Hannah’s. The pink gerbera left of the hydrangea one is mine. ♥
#Art Tambay at Craft Coffee again.
Since there were no tables available at the event itself, we decided again to hang out at Craft Coffee. Hannah & I were the first ones of the #January Girls to arrive. We took over the long table at Craft, woohoo! January Girl members present were: Me, Hannah, Jean (Thanks again for the watercolor huhuhu), Monique, and our new member (haha) Naresa!
Here are some of my instagram posts that day:
It was so much fun! I also got to meet other Watercolorist ph members as well. ♥ I can’t wait for the next one! As for now, I need to try out the watercolor that I got from seamountainco. ♥ You can order your own handmade watercolor from seamountainco through this link.
The watercolor group that I’m a part of has another event this weekend! Check out the Facebook event page for details. The January Girls will also be attending on Saturday so do say hi & let’s trade Artist Trading Cards! (As usual I haven’t started with mine yet HAHA.)