Stain Glass Hall

Two years ago, my wife and I went to Italy for a backpacking trip. We visited 3 main cities - Rome, Florence and Venice. A lot of the buildings there were very old but beautiful, and historical. I was especially amazed at the churches where they had huge stained-glass windows that created fantastic ambience inside the hall.
So, here's an attempt to paint out what I felt visually, though in a completely fictional building.

A lazy day Under the tree

On a surprisingly hot afternoon, Gimeor finds himself sitting under a tree, looking at a Diplodocus lumbering his way. Just great - now he has to move away to find another shade.


I couldn't help but be inspired by a scene in Disney's "Tangled"; where there were thousands of floating lanterns by the lake. So here I painted a somewhat similar idea, toying around glowing things in a cave - fireflies perhaps...


Gimeor goes for a walk beside a pair of Brachiosaurus. It's late in the evening and having a pair of behemoths at your side helps to keep predators away. And his long necked friends don't seem to mind anyway...

Looking back

Well, it's been a super long time since I've posted any art on my blog, so here's a new one. I guess I was busy with my work and my new house and didn't had time to paint any personal stuff - until now! Muahaha...
It's called "Looking back", just a Styracosaurus mom and her young walking towards a lake, and got their reflection caught on the water. Spent some time playing around the colors and lighting, and didn't get it right until I surfed the internet for some photos. The score of Photograph vs My brain... Photograph=1 My brain=0



Here's a weird idea about a huge tree which floats up, pulling up it's roots, soil and debris falling all around. Would be quite a spectacle...

Afternoon Cut - Yummy!

Gimeor has hit the jackpot - caught a juvenile Tyranosaurus which would nicely last him a few weeks of food.

Baguio City again!

I went back and searched through my old photos of the Philippines trip, and found a few photos of Baguio city that i took. I compared it with the art I painted yesterday, and found a big difference! It wasn't as bright and there were more interesting cloud formations behind the mountains. There were also some trees at the foreground in the photos.
So, to do justice the the art, I decided to refer to the photo and add in all the elements that were missing.
It's a whole lot better , and I wonder why is my imagination poorer than the photo I took in the first place? Lousy art skills, I guess. Here's the new art:


Here's the photo btw:

Super Baguio City

Not too long ago, I visited the Philippines, and went to a city called Baguio. It's located high up in the mountains, and it's a really big city! It has a bus terminal and is a start point to explore other smaller towns around the mountains like Batad and Sagada. On my way back from Baguio in the evening, I caught a fleeting glimpse of the numerous houses/squatters all over the mountains, and it was an amazing view with the fog slowly coming in and obscuring some of the houses. It looked absolutely magical! Below is an attempt to recapture what I felt and saw that day:

Probably there are not actually so many houses but at the time, it really seemed as if the whole mountain was covered with them :)