Coloring is Therapy

One Sunday afternoon, my sister, Monica was surprisingly altruistic to gather me and our younger siblings to paint with her using her pricey coloring materials. We took advantage of her kindness, but innocent Aj and Laura happened to leave heavy blots of paint on the paper and the paint abused. Hee! Before we started our painting session, we tried to think of what to paint and I guess living in a tropical country with all the greens around, it has always been conventional to draw or paint nature like the traditional picture of  a rice field with two mountains, a few trees, bushes, flowers with the bahay kubo. Not to forget the sun, and the clouds with birds that are shaped like the giant M of McDonalds. Hahaha! Can you picture that out?  :D So Laura and Aj decided to paint trees. Here are there cutie patootie masterpieces! Definitely not bad for beginners!

Aj's painting. Laura made a ridiculous comment that it's a parade of broccoli with pom-poms. What d'you think? *giggles*

 Laura's painting had the most comments. That's because everyone loves picking on her! Haha! We all agreed that it looked like a mushroom and Dad said it's a huge scoop of pistachio gelato. Monica wasn't able to finish a painting. Instead, she helped Laura blend colors and taught Aj how to use different kinds of brushes.

I told them I was sick of making trees and using the color green cause I've been doing that since childhood so I chose to paint something differently.  I didn't have any formal art class, it's all pure imagination and observation from Dad and others. I used to paint a lot in high school and I wish to hone those skills back so that I'd step up from my juvenile level. I've also been the traditional artist. Digital painting with photoshop still keeps me wondering. Good thing my siblings didn't have any comments with my work Clearly, it's a sign of approval. Yay!

This book is so helpful for amateurs. We got it from the Logos Hope Book Fair last month. Dad chose this for my brother, Ayan, who's a Landscape Architecture student. I was busy choosing cook books. I should have gotten myself a cook book for dummies instead. D:

Painting as a recreation is highly commendable. Try using watercolour. It's not that hard to use though. Talk about history, watercolour painting is extremely old. Coloring is also therapeutic. It's a way of venting your feelings and frustrations, and all other emotions. Remember those movies where children are given crayons, and adults try to guess their emotions, some of them create dark drawings and scare the hell out of adults haha but some create pictures of love and family, and that's cute! So if you had a busy morning and want to unwind and calm down, this is a good way to de-stress!!! ;)