According to Wikipedia, "Mother's Day is a celebration honoring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March or May...
Mother's day in the Philippines is celebrated every second Sunday of May. A Filipino mother is called the "light of the household" around which all activities revolve. Families treat mothers to movies or lunch or dinner out, spend time with their mothers in a park or shopping at the mall, or give their mothers time to pamper themselves. Most families celebrate at home. Children perform most chores that the mother routinely handles, prepare food or give their mothers small handcrafted tokens such as cards.
Although in its current form, Mother's Day is not a traditional Filipino holiday; this and Father's Day owe their popularity to American influence."
I just recently posted three new paintings in my two websites (http://cyril-maza.artistwebsites.com and http://cyril-maza.fineartamerica.com). They are my first three paintings in 2013.
One of them is "The Artist," which is my first painting in 2013.
The other two are entitled "Mom and Babe" and "A Moment with Dad." Both paintings feature a parent and a child, with "A Moment with Dad" portraying a father, and "Mom and Babe" portraying a mother. I completed the former on the 20th of January and the latter on the 8th of February. I used acrylic paints on a 22" X 28" stretched canvas for each painting.
Just like what I did when I painted "The Artist", I had used photos of real people to start with when I painted the two pieces. I found those beautiful black-and-white photos from the Facebook photo albums of my younger brother and my sister-in-law. Of course, those pictures were black-and-white, so I had to come up with my own colors.
I chose a black background for the "A Moment with Dad" painting, and a landscape scene with a blue sky, white-bluish/pinkish clouds, and a mixture of red, green and yellow plants for the "Mom and Babe."
I have added halos around the heads of the father and the child in the "A Moment with Dad" painting to make the figures stand out in the dark background. The lighter yellowish color around their heads made their dark, black hairs more distinct, separating the dark colored hairs from the dark background.
