well halloz thar! 14/05/2009

(me at starbucks before watching star trek)

it’s been a while, eh?  well, i guess i’ve been pretty busy.  nii-san just graduated last weekend which was SUPER awesome!  now she gets to start life and all that fun jazz.  i have also been sick the past few days.  i’m not sure what caused it.  a lot of it is terrible headaches, sensitive skin, weak/sore muscles, and a sore throat and tongue which forced me on a liquid diet for a while.  ughh…  i’m starting to feel better, but it is really on and off.

well, turns out nii-san and i will be chillaxing here in the sunshine state for longer than originally planned.  while dad is in the Phils, we will be here.  when he gets back is when we…drive…back…to…cali…  ugh.  i had roadtrips.  D8

i finished my first painting.  yay!  took a while because i just got into doing pop art, so i had to get my mind to think in that way.  i’m so used to doing detailed work and such that i had a hard time settling with something that different.  after many trial and errors, i finally  came up with my first piece!

yay!  it’s actually pretty bad, and i had a hellova time with the darker blue colour, but in the end, i was pretty satisfied.  the portrait is of greg cipes, and NOT zac efron like beni kept accusing it to be.  x6  i figured since he’s one of my biggest inspirations, i should dedicate something to him.  ^^  i hope if he sees it he likes it.  hehehe…  and i hope y’all like it too!

well, i’m just about done for now.  i just wanted to throw in a blog before i got busy again.  errr.  ta!

Well-Endowed 02/05/2009

sometimes me and my friends can be immature, and that’s bad.  but this isn’t one of those times.

poet 01/05/2009

i’ve been in a really spiritual and artsy mood recently.  i have been practicing a lot with my tarot cards and starting to understand my readings a little bit better.  i still stink at it, but hey.  i’m getting there.  i also just got back into hooping again since beni sent me the hoop-making goods.  =3  and whenever i hoop, i feel like i’m a wave, constantly flowing.  i just have so much fun doing it.  i don’t know a lot of tricks nor am i very good at it, but i love it.

my sketch book is pretty much getting to the end point.  still a lot more pages, but i can tell it’s hurting.  haha.  i’m just sketching so much these days.  sketching anything really.  before i left cali, i had been doing a lot of watercolour paintings.  dad actually saw me doing them, loved them, and told me i should do bigger paintings to post on the walls for the resort in the Phils.  sounds like a good idea.  since watercolours don’t translate into larger canvases that well, well, at least with my skills, i thought i’d try a new medium.  i considered oil since i’ve worked with those in the past, but i always feel like i have to make a masterpiece when i use oil.  a lot of pressure, i’d say.  after much contemplating, i decided to try out acrylics.  i’m really excited to try.  zanthia is hosting this art walk thing on saturday and sunday, and i’m thinking about going.  still need to work out a few things for that though.  like a way to get there.  heh…  but we’ll see.  so yep.  hopefully i’ll be doing a lot of painting soon.  if anyone has any tips or know of a good website or video, send ‘em my way!  (jiawen@mtsong.com)

and y’all should know by now i’ve been trying my hand with photography.  not very good at it, nor have i done a lot of research for it, but i think my shots aren’t too bad.

beni took me to open mic night at cafe hey.  holy crap!  i loved it!  i can’t wait to go back.  i’m still pretty shy to go up and read, but during the whole show i kept coming up with such random things to talk about.  like how i wished forever stamps came in cuter designs, and how fat i think my lips look.  haha.  see.  random.  we’ll see.  maybe i’ll have the balls to go up next time.  but i had a blast.