Summer Fiesta In The City & The Miscellaneous

I’m kinda missing the part where around this time of year, when the air gets colder and the sun doesn’t shine DIRECTLY to your face, you go head on with passion projects and multiply your productivity by a thousand. But this year, reality just hits right into you like having no escape at all. All those “priorities” seem to lurk behind you and you feel all guilty when you’re not doing anything with them. It’s a weird feeling, and when you try to escape or just slip away from them, they all come back and the cycle goes on and on. 😥

But I try to comfort myself with little things like listening to new music (at 2am lol) or add new pages to my notebooks and still deal with all the different things that’s happening around.

I don’t want to be half-assed with my actions and I want them to be from my guts and insidesss and still be awesome to things I either hate or like. 😂🙆

This too shall pass.

Hopes & dreams,

花。

Watercolor My Heart’s Content

Yay we are now at the end of the year with new paperssss lol.

I must say that the previous watercolor papers I’ve been using was a little bit of a bummer because they don’t hold that much water compared to other papers. It kinda led me into doubt that maybe I wasn’t meant to watercolor but it has resolved now after buying a new one after a year *BIG RELIEF*

So much trust in those papers, it said 190 g/m2 D:

Anyway, I’m back with goals and meaningful comebacks haha. As what I have said in my 2015 goal is to post EVERY month of my progress, aaand I let you down on that. But still, I've promised myself that watercolor will be my medium for this year so here it goes :)

First months:

I think I was using more color than water like acrylic hehe.

Hopelessness started around here. Read/looked up on various ways on watercoloring and they said that it uses less color and more water making it very light. So I tried it and it looked like a colorful puddle ;_; See how it doesn’t hold much water ;_;

I felt sad and all so I played watercolor a bit on regular paper (of course I had to paint an eye, I love eyes). I guess I was lucky that it turned out to be Elsa I was painting haha (on regular paper ;_;).

Again I tried and this time I used less water and less paint. It was hard but it turned out nice, but you could still see water-y parts though.

Then Inktober came and decided to join. It wasn’t fully watercolor.

School came along during the later months but I had to do something > <

It was not ‘til early December I replaced my watercolor paper since the only available one here is Pheonix (Berkeley and Canson is here now whyyy). I told someone to get a Canson/Berkely for me since she was in Manila that time.

Tried again, this time less paint and more water.

Seeee??? I was sooo satisfied ;_; I thought I was gone with painting for good, turns out it was the paper’s fault. The anxiety was gone for good. ;_;

What I Learned:

Watercolor need suuuper patience

Watercolor is soft, and subtle as clouds in the sky

Quality over quantity (especially materials *_*)

Don’t lose track of what’s important. :)

Today is the 30th of December 2015 (Rizal Day wohooo), a little bit windy but I’m looking forward to next year’s adventure. :)

Hopes & Dreams,

- Hana  花

Seifuku Shirt

How I made my last-minute seifuku shirt

I came up with a school girl costume bc i thought it would be a lot of fun to paint paint paint X)

I first started sketching what the shirt looked like and what colors should I use. I decided to go with purple because I want to pair it with my lavender skirt (◑‿◐)

I used a plain white shirt (my mom had an extra :3 ), some masking tape and Liquitex Acrylic Color or acrylic paint. Simple as that! :3

Thank you Erica for the blue paint! T T The other reason why I picked purple because I only had purple paint. im sorry

Imperfect white spaces suck so

Yay!

It turned out to be okay (i think). It had a little paint on the sleeves because of my clumsiness hehe ooops. The paint I used was permanent and water resistant so curse my clumsiness > < I tried bleaching it but it didn't work so I just accepted my fate.

It was a lot of fun. 'Til next time! (◑‿◐)

- 花

五月 ｰ 七月 (June to July): ☁This journal is inspired by Reese’s aesthetic and Pixie’s iridescent life. 💕 ☁ Ate spicy sunflower seeds and it was good. ☁ Nasal allergies. ☁ “Fusion-y” tea. ✨ ☁ Secret autograph of Reese I will forever keep. ☁ Just saying I’ve learn a lot from Ate Kaila. 💕🌈

My problem with notebooks and journals is that I’m not worthy enough to use them because I might ruin there beauty. Another reason why I take days to finish a page > < But I love them still.

Some photos from our previous trip to northern mindanao🌲and went pass through plantations of pineapples for those tidbits I keep getting 😋🏡🍍

“sweet and soft as summer, darlings, maple trees in bloom and grass green in the sunny places—”

peter s. kroyer // willard metcalf // daniel garber // emily dickinson, in a letter to susan gilbert

It’s still hasn’t sink in that the one I’ve been reading over the past six years has finally reached to its conclusion. 😭 Fairy Tail made me realize something back then and I’m forever grateful for this work. ❤

(My Gray & Juviaaa 😭💕)

— Gray’s Feelings💙.

Hello old friend, I sent you out there years ago and you went and spread a lot of good karma, I just need your favour again, help me find some work 🧡

窗口

nothing will remind you that eating is good and okay like fantasy books will. “and that night in the valley they brought out the best plum cake and sweet cream, trout and turnips roasted over the fire, mead and goatsmilk and fresh cold water from the spring-“ and it’s like yeah dude you’re absolutely right. then sometimes it’s like “as he slept that night in the woods, he sorely missed the valley, where they brought out the best plum cake-“ and it’s like man that sucks i’ll have some seconds in his honor