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A 20-minute watercolor painting in my sketchbook compressed to 20 seconds :) swipe for the finished piece :)

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Pretending to paint for the gram 🤪 the brush isn’t even touching the canvas, kunwari pa ‘to 🙈🤣

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[PERSONAL POST FROM MY PERSONAL IG]
Reposted @withregram: @reginreallife My words for 2020. These are NOT the words I wanted 😒 my original word was YES which had been in my thoughts since October. I thought that was it. But I read a book where the author asked God in prayer for his word for the coming year. It occurred to me I hadn’t ASKED God about my word. I just assumed I already had it.
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So I prayed and asked God for my word. This was in mid-November. LONGING or BELONGING was what came up immediately in my thoughts. “Hmm, yoko niyan. Boring,” I said. 😜 [Continue reading on @reginreallife]
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(Read more about the One Word exercise on my blog, RegSilva.com)
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[✨TIP: Follow my FB page (I mirror my IG posts there) for the convenience of clickable links. http://fb.com/regsilvadotcom ✨]

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It was the first Monday of the new year and I wasn’t feeling very productive (like everyone else 😁). To ease in to the Monday grind, I took it easy and played in my #sketchbook.
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My mom had a scrapbooking paper phase a few years ago and had stored up hundreds of pretty patterned paper, some with special printing effects— glittered, embossed, foiled. Soooo pretty! For years I’ve wondered what I can do with them and how I can use them in my work. That Monday, I simply took them out and “drew” with them (technique inspired by @terryrunyan).
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Something I don’t like about the art community is that in general we have a tendency to hoard art materials and supplies we don’t even use or forget exists. Then sometimes we have to throw them out because the paint has dried, the paper has yellowed and crumbled, the tapes have lost their adhesive. Useless. I had an epiphany of sorts a few years ago and in a moment of clarity, gathered all my spare art materials and donated them to people who had less. I was surprised to see I had like ten sets of colored pencils I wasn’t using and were in perfect condition, stacks of sketch pads, paintbrushes, etc.
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I’ve since been a lot more prudent about buying art stuff. I try not to buy more than what I need. I no longer feel I have to “save” or “preserve” art supplies that seem to be too pretty or too precious to use because I don’t want them to go to “waste”, like my mom’s patterned paper or my washi tapes— they’re MEANT to be used. If you don’t use them, that’s when they go to waste :)
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So... use your art supplies, guys. And whatever you don’t use, there are many out there who have less and would love to have them...

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I’ve been a sporadic sketchbooker since 2010 but I started being consistent about sketchbooking in 2016. Here are some of my filled-in and ongoing sketchbooks since. Small, consistent steps build up to give you a bigger result which you’ll only see after you only see after considerable time and compounded effort :)
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Check out my blog post about my sketchbooks— link on my IG bio 💕📚

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Last page of 2019 in my sketchbook (moon painting) and the first in 2020. Swipe to see closeups :)

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I was evaluating my 2019 and listing down the things I’m grateful for. I realized one of my first answered prayers last year was being able to take acrylic painting lessons (something I aspire for every year but don’t act on 😅).
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In April & May 2019 I enrolled in 8 sessions of acrylic painting lessons to “learn the basic painting foundations/rules so I can break them” (what I told my art teacher); to be able to apply what I learned to my own painting style later on.
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I learned to mix colors (so difficult!!!) and paint traditionally/realistically. Then later in the year, I started doing religious art in my own style (something I’ve been wanting to do for some time now) to start off a long-term career goal: paint larger paintings on canvas and be able to do it full time and well into old age (haha!). As I said, it’s for long-term. But it starts as early as now with small, little steps such as this 😊
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My art teacher is Ted Luna, by the way! His studio is in the BF Homes, Parañaque area if you’re interested. Search Luna Art Workshop on Facebook; they conduct art lessons for kids and adults all year round :)

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The posts you liked the most in 2019: all personal, just-for-fun work. It’s true what @lillarogers (I took her Make Art That Sells course in 2013!) says: people buy your joy!
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My art journey has been up and down over the past few years (mostly down, but hopefully it’s on the upswing now— thank You, Lord!) but I believe it’s merely an indication of things transitioning and falling into its NEW and proper places. Thank you for journeying with me as I discover where God is leading me as He uses me and my art for His purposes and his glory. Hope you’re all open to new and good things to come in 2020 and beyond 🤗💖🌱 thank you for supporting me! 😘🙏🏼 you are in my prayers :D

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The kids on TikTok were asking for a drawing tutorial but they don’t know I’m a troll 🤣🤪🤡

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