Andy Reyes

@andyjreyes.com

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Software is Storytelling | iOS Software Engineer | Aspiring Etegami Artist

This image shows my etegami art. Etegami is a painted postcard created with black ink and gansai watercolor. The postcard I painted shows two apples zoomed in so you only see the top parts with their stem. Above the apples is a message written in black ink: "Have A Fruitful New Year" with an emphasis on fruitful to give it a nice pun. The left apple has more watercolor texture and is partially green at the top but mostly red. The right apple is completely red with a tasteful shadow on the lower right. Surrounding the postcard is a sheet of rice paper which I used to mix colors, experiment with different symbols. The chaos of the background rice paper is a fun contrast to the relative simplicity of the final postcard. This shows that art is a creative process and even simple artworks take a lot of forethought and work to create.