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Continue reading →: NFT, the 21st Century Art MovementWhat are your thoughts on NFT and the new world of Digital Art? Here is my short yet quick take and perhaps a little share of my quaint shop on Mintable.app
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Continue reading →: Carnations and Daisies: The Garden of LoveA visual journey of love and friendship represented through symbolic turns in life and the colors of one’s love story. Read about my experience in creating a visual tale for two of the closest friends who met by chance and fell in love.
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Continue reading →: Carving into the Hide: The Solmiet StoryAt some point life, we have a tendency to seek something new and this time I opened the door to leather working. Leatherworking requires quite an enormous amount of energy especially when leather tooling – a process of engraving or embossing on leather. The first few tries where not…
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Continue reading →: Breaking into the New WorldBreaking into a new world is hard but here is a short update of where I have been and where I will go next.
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Continue reading →: Painted MemoriesFrom paper to plates, Painted Memories is a short story of some of the experimentations that created my latest line of Bespoke Plates.
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Continue reading →: MUSE 2.0: An A-Muse-ing Exhibition of Art and Design during the PandemicAs the learning never stops growing, neither does the growing stop evolving. This year’s Muse Exhibition showcases an expression of their personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. The art show features 28 ICAD staffs’ expression and experience that reflects on one of ICAD’s Manifestos while responding to current issues.
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Continue reading →: Living in the Age of Covid-19Come the mid of September, we were near functioning back to the classic physical classroom setting with the touch of social distancing. It felt so good to be back into the studio setting with a live audience (in this case, students). In this set below, you would see me conducting…
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Continue reading →: An Art Educator’s Journal: Flipping the Class Getty Museum StyleWhoever said you cannot teach art in the form of distance learning; really needs to cut themselves some slack and get inspired by some of the internet trending challenges. Through the last couple of working-from-home weeks, there have been a least a dozen of ideas trending on my social media…
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Continue reading →: MCO: Living Life and Working from HOMEMeet Ana Victoria Calderon, the facilitator for this course. Ana is a water-colourist from Mexico and shares her experience in this course. In brief, it is strategically broken down making it easy for the participant to digest the basic understanding before diving into the process. Yes process! A basic understanding…
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Continue reading →: Expanding some Design Fabrication
A very long time ago, a friend once inspired me to start a product store on Society6. Back then, I was not all that sure what to upload or how to expand my designs onto products using their in-build software. Let’s explore more digitized watercolour. I’ll post another blog soon!…
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I’m Melissa
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