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Written by Teresita Blanco (The Artsy Sister)
Melodica Anime Drawing
This is another one of my silly anime drawings. It features a girl playing a Melodica. She is wearing a nice green outfit. A melodica is a type of free reed instrument. It is like a pump organ, or a harmonica. You have a keyboard on top, and you play it by blowing into the mouthpiece. This instrument is quite popular in Asia. It is used instead of a Recorder to teach little kids music. The modern melodica was invented by Hohner in the 1950s. Still, there were versions of this instrument as far back as the 19th century. As...
My First Set of Pouring Paintings
Over the last couple of days, I was looking up tutorials for pouring paintings. With the videos, it did go a little better than my first try at that medium. Since I was still practicing, I decided to do tiny paintings. I usually prefer smaller paintings, because it uses up less paint. With larger works, I start getting desperate, and annoyed. I had that first feeling about it, when I painted the Virgin Mary. I used my first big canvas. It took about two weeks to complete the painting. I even started to get a little bit nervous with my...
Anime Girl Playing the Launeddas
This is a nice anime drawing of mine. It features a maiden playing the Launeddas. It is part of a long series of drawings dedicated to different musical instruments. The Launeddas is a Sardinian musical wind instrument. The predecessor of this instrument can be traced as far back as Ancient Egypt. They were depicted in tombs as old as 2700 BC. I know they recently changed it to BCE, but I prefer the original BC. I also miss the days when Pluto was considered a planet. It is not as if we will spontaneously combust, but calling Pluto a planet....
Happy Tanabata Day From Artsy Sister
My brother last night asked me for some scratch paper. I did not know what it was for. We had run out of print paper, like eight months ago. We realized it till recently because we rarely use the printer. In any case, he spent the night making little Oragami cranes. This morning I went outside and saw some odd things hanging on the tree. It turns out to have been cranes with wishes. They are part of a Japanese holiday called Tanabata. My brother has a girlfriend who is into Japanese stuff. The story appeals to them because they...
Alice and a Big Silver Rooster Acrylic Painting
This is another one of my Alice paintings. I like to try to serialize some of my paintings. A couple of days ago, I had made a bit of a dud. I wanted to try to make a piece that was political or some nonsense, but then I got bored and annoyed. I ended up smooshing the colors with a sponge and it turned into some abstract nonsense. As such, I wanted to paint something that actually looked good. I was down to my final canvas and it was pretty big. It was then when I thought of the Rooster...