> <b><h5>"It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive."</h5></b> <em>~ Paul Cezanne</em>





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Hello everyone!

As my journey with art continues, my burning passion for it has not stopped with my fascination with just landscapes and flowers, but with still-life paintings as well. It has ways that spark up my curiosity that etched my hands to explore more with my paintbrush and go deeper into playing with shades and shadows. 

This work in progress is not just like a walk in the park. I could best describe it as an uphill climb.    With every image that my paintbrush is swaying, is like a determined mountaineer going through unfamiliar trails but never getting exhausted. She is enjoying every step of the exciting journey toward the dramatically colorful summit.

 
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<b>One in a melon.</b>
This image is inspired by <em>Angela Anderson</em> and is one of the pieces I can say I am deeply in love with. I was loving every minute of its exhausting yet satisfying process. The very details of adding shadows were like connecting my soul deeper with art.

Still-life paintings have something to do with giving me a deeper fascination with art. It is like looking at an object but my eyes do not stop at what merely meets the eye, they protrude within the very core of what it is saying that the bare human eyes refuse to see. The creative details and every stroke of shading to getting close to realism have quenched my continued thirst for art. And I know this is just the beginning because I still have an enormous hunger for art that needs a lot of coloring to be fulfilled.

And with this my so-called "finished still-life masterpiece" it is with great pleasure to share with you a part of me - the unspoken dramatic rhymes in the poetry that I have never written. With all its drama that I cannot put into perfect words, this image is the first harmony of my soul's deeper connection with art and how it sings louder as it goes deeper into giving life to each sketch that I am putting into each canvas. 

And once hung on the wall, my heart is in festive celebration. Finally, this is my way of sharing an aesthetic part of me with the rest of the world. To somehow wish that despite the dark chaos that this place has been battling with, there are still bright colors that we can always look at and give focus to. And if my paintings don't make history, I wish they would, however, give a glitch of hope for everyone facing each personal silent battle to never succumb to quitting and be always reminded to <b>be still - life is beautiful</b>.