A friend throwing a joint birthday party for her son and daughter asked me to do write guest names in calligraphy for their party favors. She likes these bags made of buri or pandan leaves. It's a great fit for the party's theme which is Filipiniana pastels.
The bag contained a lot of goodies that kids would love, traditional Filipino toys like jack stones, pickup sticks, rubber bands, marbles and a few sweets.
For the adult guests, she used the same type of bags and put calico bags with Pinoy goodies like tableya (cocoa), rice and coffee beans. I made kraft gift tags that were attached to the bags to label their contents.
Sunflowers are some of my favorite flowers. I love them together with roses! Today, I felt like practicing on flower angles so I'm doing a bunch of sunflower stems facing slightly sideways and facing up to make them look more realistic.
I started with the buri pouch. I drew a bit of guide lines using pencil but I actually really don't like much doing it. I like to paint directly but sometimes there really needs to be a guide so I don't make mistakes in my composition. I am more spontaneous when I paint. It's not really the best practice because usually you'll need to plan out your painting but I dunno, I just really want to skip the sketching most times.
I used the acryl gouache, which dries out pretty quickly so I had to work a little faster while I filmed it. I had some leftover paint so I grabbed a watercolor pad and painted more sunflowers. When I'm working on acrylic or any paint that dries, I feel a lot time pressured and I really hate that. Gladly, this one was done quickly. I like this speckled background style, I think I will be adding this to more future paintings.
This batch of painting was somewhat a challenge in terms of color choice. These pouches were already dyed with a certain color combination when I purchased them. I had to choose another set of colors to complement the existing ones which really has to make the design pop-out.
Here I'm using acrylic paint and sealed with acrylic spray. For each bag, I decided to include a little "care" card which says how to care for the bag design which is important to make the bags last a bit longer.
It can fit a mobile phone, folded bills, coins, keys and/or lipstick.
I'm getting back to painting some plain native bags I purchased from the holidays. Aside from the usual roses, I'm trying out sunflowers and some white petal flowers for some variety. The small shoulder bags are wonderful and cute but they're not always available in local shops. So I looked for other types and found these lovely clutch bags from Subida.
I love that they're quite roomy and I like the fact that they came in other colors aside from the natural one. The weave patterns are great and they add more texture to the color and design that I added. Another cute find is the round hand bag which I also have kept one for myself because it's my favorite from all of them! And I don't have a lot so each bag is special and unique.
Here I also share the other bags I painted and sold over the holidays. I'm so happy with these because they came out pretty! The bag texture makes the designs look different, in a good way. They went so well with florals and leaves!
If you want to see how I painted them, I have a post about it and was able to film while painting. You can view it here.
