{ Krafted } Hand-painted wood slices

Wood slices are great canvases for calligraphy or any painting project. I managed to acquire a few pieces of these from the local department store. They're made of nice and smooth type of wood and a great natural wood color. I was torn between painting over them with other colors or just directly add calligraphy. For this batch, I decided to add colors. Next time I'm planning to do sunset and galaxy scapes.

These objects are small and are best used as coasters or desk paper weights. They can serve as decorative pieces to your desk or shelf by putting them on a mini plate stand or a tiny wooden easel.

Handmade placecards using deckled paper

Here's something I want to see in weddings: placecards on deckled paper. Deckled paper is a rare find in local Dgte weddings. If you're anyone who loves these kinds of detail, this is for you! Handmade is the way to go because there's little chance you can mass produce anything like this with a machine.

Perfect project to apply calligraphy! For these samples, I'm doing earth colors with gold accent and the ever lovely pastels.

Handpainted Woven Bags

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.

Small Victories - Painting on Ukelele

This project started out as an entry to a contest turned collaboration project sponsored by Inspiredby.ph in which I was invited to participate, to paint a calligraphy design on a ukelele. The theme was "Reasons we love the Philippines" and I chose the theme of the beach for obvious reasons.

I painted on two ukeleles, one of a simple artwork, bird's eye view of beaches and another includes calligraphy design with Filipino words of beach scenery.

The "drone" view of the beach artwork is inspired by the palette knife paintings of Sally West. For the calligraphy piece are words written in Filipino that remind us of the ideal beach scenes.

I take you through my process of painting through these photos.

This was my initial draft.

Acrylic paints and gold mica ink

a new canvas!

{ Krafted } Canvas Coasters

I love fabrics like canvas. It's versatile and it has a really great retro feel to it. And it gives a really nice effect when you have a design printed on it using heat transfer. When I recently discovered a local print shop accepts custom fabric to print on, I was excited to try it right away. I first test printed on tote bags and they looked great, but later I thought I could also make coasters, too! I have a little portable sewing machine so I can do simple running stitches and come up with 4 x 4 inch coaster with my designs. I'm selling them in my shop. They'd make really cute gifts for the holidays!

The blue ones are printed canvas when I got them. I loved the chevron and tribal print that I also used them for the coasters

Wedding favors - Handpainted terracotta pots

After two months, these pots are finally done. My client ordered these pots locally, escpecially made for succulents to be put in each pot as giveaways for their wedding this June. They originally looked very raw and rough so I first had to apply a base color that mimicks the original terra cotta color (reddish-orange) to give it a cleaner look and a much better surface to paint on.

I used a white Artline brand paint-marker with a fine tip for the calligraphy of names and the dates. After which, I used acrylic to paint the flowers on one side of each pot. As a finishing touch, a tied a blow around each of them using Jute twine.

This is the first time I painted pots in bulk so I'm quite proud that I was able to finish on time.