Broken Umbrella Print

Annie V., Born in Philippines. She started painting when she was 13 years old back in 1994, started form Oil pastel and developed a plan as she went. She began in what seemed at the time to be a rether backwards way. A few years past, She discovered Oil Painting, starts from experimenting it and began working for free, from school, and friends. After a couple of months, She stopped working and focus on her studies. Following her dreams she studies from all the art books she collected since she was a kid, did a researched online. She did took a lessons with Jonathan Benetiz a professional artist from Palawan, Philippines. She starts her first work as an experiment to know how far she can go professionally, taken her creation to a selected costumer and friends, without following boundaries on age and taste. By the summer of 1997, She discovered Acrylic Paint, and abandoned Oil. Beginning in August 1997, She did a lot of drawings with pencils, and charcoal working from friends faces in College for free (as a practice), which continued throughout the next summer of 1998, along with Acrylic painting. In the rainy season of 1998, She began painting seriously in Oil during her spare time from class., which continued throughout the end of summer and in the rainy season of 1998 she shifted focus to Water Color paint for trials, and no progressed, and then Oil pastels. During the summer of 1999 She returned to painting in Oil until 2002.. but since then, She got the job and have to force her self and stop painting. Annie start moving to a different places and never have a chance to paint again. Until November 2007, She began painting again and struggling to begin her painting, it takes a Month.. with no plans she started painting Helen's face with using Acrylic on 60 X 80 cm Canvas and it turns out beautiful. The next year comes, another phenomenon was taking place... all her paintings were becoming smaller. She decided to begun painting large again, and as she progressed, She began to run out of both materials and become moody (looking for a different idea).. She then began sketching using pencil, water color, ink, oils, no matter the medium, they were all sketches, and increasingly she began to depend on memory, imagination to produce work.. learned to love a "Mirror image of real life and the pictures". Finally, in February 2010, she began to think about the journey of work has taken over the past years, where it is heading..