gminauwe's blog

I am not an innate artist but I know drawing. Starting in my high school, I study various aspects of drawing. Daily, I would scribble something at the back of notebook and if there are plain papers, expect to see some drawings, be it just a simple pencil sketch or a colorful collage. Of course there are many students who like me love art and we share the same interest. It is also good to know there are people who are very much like what you like. We share some points and techniques. But it will just boil down to pure instinct and skill that you cannot simply transfer it or share it to another. If there are people with the same interest, competition will occur. But this is healthy competition, drawing contests. I have been competing with my schoolmates on various levels. As Luck Would Have It, I won some competitions.

Moving fast forward, before my high school graduation, normally you will look for a college or university to pursue a college degree and one way or another, pursue your interest and dreams. And because I draw a lot, making house portraits is one type of painting that I really like because I am a frustrated architect. Unluckily, wasn’t able to pass the admission exams of the university that I am dying to go into. However, it didn’t take long when the interest of painting a house, from the exterior to the interior sets in me. I usually paint a house or two during my free time and also paint during weekends if I’m not on travel.

I tested venturing into oil painting, but creating oil portraits are so hard. You must be aware of the combination of paints and of course, unlike pencil, you could not undo what you already did. What you can do is to put another layer of paint to cover or to edit your mistakes.

Today, because of technology innovations one can easily and instantly produce a picture that is like an artist’s painting. There are different photo software programs that can easily make a photo to oil painting in a snap. All you have to do is to take a digital photo and with a click of the button, it can be rendered into any other types of painting, be it in watercolor, oil, pastel, crayons, pencil, any way you want it. People now are fortunate to have this technology that anyone can be a painter in minutes!