Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Art Auction for Fellow Artist

Fellow Artist Julius Legaspi suffered a heart attack Sept 22, and it was quite a shock since he seems to be fit and still very young to have this condition.
   An Art Auction was open for this cause the next day and immediately support from various artist came pouring in sharing their artworks and the bid comes sporadically after that. 
   Almost everybody in the Philippine art scene know who is Julius Legaspi. His penchant for pastels are among the best most specially in still-life and his leadership in Walo art group lead the way into different outreach program.   

  I've first met Julius during the exhibit of Pitong Lawa festival at San Pablo, Laguna. He was kind and soft-spoken. I've met him about 3-4 times only and I sense that he would be an important artist one day. 

   I was on the process of making this artwork below...thinking what could or how would I be able to help. I have no available work since I'm preparing for my Japan show next month. Then it hit me, what if I donate this Obra? I was fighting several options on my head...I kinda like this work at the very process I've put in it. 


   What I've not realized anyway was that, it kinda creepy to have put those eyes on the mouth...who would want a scary painting hanging on their wall? So as expected, the bid didn't came as of now...
   To stress a point that was quite literal which is to say "Our intention creates reality...thru what we say and what we believe."
    So I can sense, it will not sell for now.... ☺ 
   Therefore I put up another offer...which starts at Php 1,000.oo plus I'm giving away the above portrait of Julius done this morning to the winning bidder. 

Horse's Eye
12" X 18" 
Acrylic on paper
2014


© Fher

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Photo: Fly away skyline Egret flight :)Photo: The Art Lover 
8.5" X 11" 
colorpencil on parchment
2014

Everything happens according to previous moments.





Photo: When I'm not yet sure what color to combine, I move to other areas and work my way around the subject until my brain finally decides what color to use.
Whenever I feel afraid or in doubt I need to come into the presence of Our Father in Heaven. I can not organize my thought for now...Yes, once again in doubt of my self. Talk about being successful. 
   Actually, I had great moments...2 events the other day and yesterday. 

© Fher

Friday, September 19, 2014

The Success Principle and PODER

Am I successful now by human standard as a man of Art? The fact is I'm still your regular artist whom my colleague love to dubbed as Master Fher. I'm changing the Title of this blog for the 3rd time because I'm not anymore focus on the struggle but on being an Artist. The end result for me now is the process itself. As long as I can still do what I want I'm already A success! 

   Is there really a secret for success? The fact is it's not a secret after all but a bogus marketing strategy. Everybody loves secret....the key word is the mysterious word itself. 

   Success defends on what you value in life. We adapt our mindset thru the suggestions of media. At the end of the day, our very own self will tell us if we are successful. 
    Therefore, why I am taking another big leap on this blog journal...
   I will count my success on daily basis. The struggle would be irrelevant to me because after all this is my chosen path. 
   Every Struggling artist must realize that the process of creating art itself is already a path towards success and a finished piece is an achievement being realized. Success is Not based on what other people think but on what's on your head.   The Art world might set a standard for success but just move forward....originality is not base on what they say but what you think. 



Warning to Young Artist: Remember PODER
Practice- because perfection is impossible
Observation- because there'll be critics
Dedications- because there'll be moment of frustrations
Enjoy- because sometimes it's not financially rewarding
Re-share- because learning is a cycle.

©FHER

Monday, September 15, 2014

The Ber Months


Busy months and days ahead for me....I can't discuss right now in detail everything so let me share some photos instead:

I'm so happy when I saw this....I had my own space @ Fred's Art Gallery. 


Had my face-painting gig in Brgy. Pansol, Los BaƱos, Laguna but quite unlucky I mysteriously lost my thousand bucks on my way home...anyway, meet the legendary Mt. Maria Makiling once again. 


Here's my little girl helping me do some of the details for Pinay in Japan contest. 


Trying to unravel the secret of parchment paper once again.....
"Until When..."
8.5" X 11" 
Charcoal on Parchment


This is my on-going piece for 4S contest...Pinay in Japan challenge.


Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Alternative on Paper Love Affair

I'm into color-pencils these past days...trying to re-explore and learn even more about this emerging trends (?)  among collectors in the world art scene and engage myself browsing about the medium on the net. Found some very helpful tips and tricks. 

   I wonder how it feels to use Prismacolor (TM), I've heard it was one of the best colorpencil (if not the very best) and of course highly expensive too. For now, I'm using variety of color-pencils mainly Faber-Castell (TM). Found also that Best Buy (TM) exclusively available at National Bookstore is also a good one and also more affordable. But I'm not discounting other student quality pencils since the best materials actually depends on the handler's satisfaction rate.

   While most of my contemporaries are engage in watercolor and pastels as alternative medium, I'm trying to re-direct my attentions on one of the first art materials that I had the most familiarity probably since grade school. I weigh consequences on my head before I decided on this alternative medium (I call this alternative medium since I still prefer to scale the summit of acrylic) by taking visual note from my friends. 
   Master J's group and Sir Fredi's group explore the oil-pastel medium during their sessions. While still other busy themselves in watercolor...and between these choices jamming on my head, and actually almost jump into soft-pastel, a material that I had never used before.....the winner by gut feel is color-pencils by availability of resources. 
   As I've said before that I'm more at ease doing work on paper surfaces than canvas although they said canvas is easier to maneuver. Perhaps, it's my familiarity with various paper grade also which helped me with an advantage on this field. The portability of color-pencils also help in the process since I don't like setting up too many stuff. 












At Acacia Hotel courtesy of sir Jovi's (Jampack Sounds Rental) brother.


Nostalgia moment with my Batchmate in PNC...




Fher






Saturday, September 6, 2014

September Bucket Challenge

 

October 6....it's been a long time since 4 SSSS had an assembly and finally now we are vibrating again. ☺

The veterans with the newcomers...


The artist/model who happened to be a PNCians...










©Fher