#jamie catt

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I felt like I wanna start reading again so I bought myself some books. 📚

[for-her-madness]

I thought I was done loving lost boys but every time you come soaring into my waiting window with your pointy hat and pixie dust, I find that it doesn’t take too much energy to conjure happy thoughts when you are always ready to make me fly. On mornings when I wake up to find you spent and sprawled on my bedroom floor, know that I will take your shadow, the darkest parts of you that you keep trying to get rid of, and remind you that I will always be here to sew whatever it was you lost back on.

Marla Miniano (in case you come back)

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(via Repost: Creative Essentials By Jamie Catt – Punchdrunk Panda)

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In Case You Come Back

by Marla Miniano and Reese Lansangan

Illustrations by Jamie Catt

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"It felt like waking up and seeing the world for the first time. I began noticing the littlest things and consequently, it made me want to capture the beauty and essence of anything and everything that I come across with."

Featuring Prime Manila's favorite illustrations from artist Jamie Catt: The Final Leap, Olive from XL Series and an untitled artwork half-inspired by Koji Arboleda Drip Series. 

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ARTISTS AROUND THE WORLD: JAMIE CATT, PHILIPPINES

"I'm Jamie Catt, an aspiring artist from the Philippines who is currently developing my own style. I've only discovered my passion for art around 2 or 3 years ago and since then I've been self-taught, trying to hone my skills. My starting medium was watercolor, and one that I'm most familiar with. However, just a couple months back, I tried to venture with different mediums such as colored pencils, acrylics and (the one I've recently come to love) pen and markers, in order to broaden my perspective and experience.

  My pieces are mainly inspired by the things that surround me, and most especially by nature and animals. When I come across a book, a song, a movie or anything that I see, read or heard of that really sparked something within me, that's when my creativity starts to work. That's how my pieces develop - through simple things that I get to interact with everyday. When I come across these things, the first thing that I tell myself goes somewhat like this: "Hey, this dragon design on my mom's vase is really cool, why don't I make something out of this?" and after a while, my brain would start to form an image of what I want to make out of it then I would to put it on paper. That's how the first photo below, which I would like to call "Dragon Hair", was created and that's usually how it goes for most of my works. My favourite artists, such as Lora Zombie, Amanda Mocci, Sha'an d' Anthes and elfandiary also plays a huge role in my art because, not only do I get inspired by their works, but I also get to learn a lot from them.

The time it takes for my drawings to be finished usually depends on what medium I use and what things I draw. Usually my simple sketches or drawings takes around 30 minutes to an hour, while those complicated ones which has a lot of shading and details, like the second and third photo below, takes about 2 to 3 hours. Sometimes, when I get stuck in a piece, it takes me days to complete it since I try to figure out how to work around it. More often than not I jump from one work to another which distracts me from finishing a piece entirely! There are times that I would do a rough sketch and I already have my plans laid out for that piece on my mind, yet it would take me days or weeks to merely continue or finish it.

I also want to share that I've been trying out this thing on doing illustrations on paper bags and receipts. I guess it's kind of a way for me to show and promote recycling and saving mother nature. Plus, there's something exciting about transforming these little papers that we come across with everyday into a form of art! Like there's this simple, raw element and you mix it with something beautiful, which then creates this idea that nature plays a huge role in my art. With this, I also want to show and tell people that art is accessible. It isn't limited and it's always there whenever we need it, like we can just grab something - anything - and make art out of it. We see it everywhere and we can do it anywhere, because it is a part of who we are."

Check out more of Jamie's work HERE.