I had Smashing Pumpkins’ album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in my head as the weather got me down again. I got my Kuretake from my art bin to stamp out whatever I’m feeling today.

I had to let it all out. I need gloomy colors.

I need to finish the the placement of the elements but I have to stop as the paper bleeds too much.

I must walk away from this. It’s not working. The paper just bleeds and bleeds. I will layer this later.

Twin A asked, Mommy, why a sunset again? I said, you know how much I love sunsets. I’ll never get tired of painting it, taking pictures of it, of watching it.

Many people are addicted to taking photos and/or recording videos of themselves, while I am addicted to taking photos of the sky, the sun, the horizon, the sea, and mountains. Is it because I don’t like myself? I don’t know. Maybe because I find the world around me more beautiful.

Maybe I’ll just do some sketching outside 😐

Oh well, I wasn’t able to do anything outside the house because of Mommy duties…so I just did a loose watercolor exercise to practice my water control.

Well, I got drastic results. 🥴

Tomorrow when I arrive at the hotel, I’ll start my urban sketching exercise. That is if we’re not going to watch Gomburza—a Filipino movie that is creating so much buzz, especially among the A-B markets. It’s a historical movie and yet it left many people in tears at the end, as I have read in several reviews of the movie. One Facebook review said you could feel why the execution of the native priests have become one of the major sparks that inspired the formation of the Katipunan, an underground movement that led the rebellion against Spain—the first anti-colonialist revolution in Asia. As I was once been told, you cannot win against the revolt of the masses, the ordinary gulok/golok-wielding people who had everything to lose.

The last showing of this movie is tomorrow. I hope they extend it.