First Yellow House Entry: Drawings and Paintings from Upper Rock Quarry

What is my Yellow House? Read here.
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September 6, 2000

3:10 PM, Wednesday

Going to start art journal here. I don't want to crowd my regular journal with these thoughts.

I haven't started reading for the exam in Sales yet. I spent the afternoon making a drawing of the houses at Upper QM. I used pastel on felt paper. I'm enjoying that surface -- finally able to use white -- pure delight!

Houses at Upper QM. Oil Pastel

I've already finished one self-portrait but two landscapes are still unfinished. Yellow felt paper is very conducive. I'm going to buy dark blue felt when the rains stop and the moon's out. I intend to do a night pastel of the city. [blue felt good, but not excellent. only one good work in blue felt -- night still life. April 30, 2001]

This house (of Kuya Ellis) in Upper Rock Quarry gives me so much to paint. Everything around's a motiff! I hope I could paint all I see -- Naguilian Road area in the west, City Hall and MOunt Crest in the North, the Cathedral in the east and houses & buildings everywhere! [I didn't really get to paint these during my stay at Upper Rock Quarry but I was able to make quick drawings before I moved. Below are some of those drawings. Sorry for the blurry images. Aug. 3, 2011]