「もののあはれ」

I have had many names and nom de plumes that I have failed to live up to. It's been two years since I've written here, and here's me coming back with a  bang.

I grew up very visual. TV was such a heavy influence during the 90′s, and cartoons and anime were rampant on air. My dad was an artist, and I was heavily exposed with his craft, as well as his materials. I was also introduced to a plethora of colors thanks to my mom’s eye shadow collection, and later on the 64-box of Crayola crayons; hence my fascination of colors. It was how I was molded into this, into being a person in to art. I’m always nifty of using the word ‘artist’ on myself, since I’m quite idealistic about the term. Anyway, here I will enlist some pieces of artwork that have greatly influenced my life, and hopefully you people will draw inspiration from.

x. Books - like i said, I grew up very visual. I love to look at things, be they letters or pictures. Literature has been very much influential to my own perspective of aesthetics. Unfortunately, I no longer have my picture/children’s books. I remember my mom giving them out to charity.

x. Poetry

x. Movies/Films - I find it hard to filter my watch list. I have too many favorite movies, but here are the best ones that really moved/wow-ed me:

animated films:

Non-animated:

x. TV Shows

- like movies, I watch too many of them, too.

animated (lots of anime here, be warned!):

Non-animated:

x. Music

- here are the most frequent songs I listen to get in the mood of artsy-ing

instrumental/orchestral (apparently all of the composers are Japanese): 

vocal: 

So there you go, a masterpost of things to inspire the artist in you. Happy artsy-ing!