On Fish Series

Before typhoon Labuyo and Maring devasted The Philippine Archipelago I already set up in my mind making collections of small paintings about sea creatures. One in particular that captivate me most are aquarium fishes...I am a fish tank enthusiast so a series about fishes would energize me easier to create without boring myself in the middle...

   ...as you can see, I get bored painting landscapes so I have very few works about the subject...

   I tried just recently painting flowers and I'm having a hard time polishing my acts...I probably needed more practice on this area.

   This is the first fish portraiture I made for this series....

   It was easily followed by another and another...

Well, I've been including fishes in my earlier artworks and I have always symbolize it on spiritual matters like blessings, bounty, and faith. 

Love Letters in Fragment

 It's been a long while since I wrote something on my painting....

Sporadic Resonance

The Multi level of my art speaks of my randomness...

I usually jumps from one artworks into another...and now I come to accept that weakness and made it as my strongest point now.  

I never stop rediscovering new avenues....

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The Secrets of GrandMasters

I will never commit the terrible crime of aiming too low. -- Og Mandino

  I hope this post would encourage everyone...to unravel the wonder within us! 

For now I'll just let my painting speaks for me...I'm preparing for an on-line art  show about Nude so forgive me for now, I didn't mean to crowd you with female anatomies. But I promise it would NOT be lewd...it would be my tribute to feminity and I had great respect for women and girls.

   Nude painting measures the painter's Artistic level...contrary to conservative view that Nude art satifies only the flesh and defame a person it actually raised it to the highest pedestal of aesthetic value than just mere object of desire. Bringing the human anatomy the utmost respect and appreciation it deserves. 

Forgive us painters, we just can't resist painting something we find beautiful. -FMY

(Plus it's difficult to paint clothes you know.)

   IN fact, I am not in my comfort zone when I paint frontal nudity...

   After that Hyper-realism attempt on Michelle Pfieffer's portrait I have this new verve or zest for painting...it consumes more energy and time...but the challenge itself already brings enlightenment. GrandMaster Bueno Silva commented on my work "In the end it's not the satisfaction...it's the means."

   The idea to excel beyond what I can do, actually came during my small talks with Grandmaster Jose Tolentino Jimenez...when he said that "lahat naman ng gawa ko sinusubukan ko kung hanggang saan ko kaya; tumitigil lang ako kapag napansin ko sumasama na ang diskarte..." (in all of my works I try to do what I can; I only stop when I saw that its getting ugly) Ohhh I don't know if I translated the essense right...but anyway, that is the big turning point why I decided to re-master painting...painting with the heart and passion of a true master.

   

   I usually give up easily...thinking I could never duplicate anyway those super-realistic works. Having No formal art education besides that month long workshops at CCP, I thought it's all I can do...I limit myself that I can only settle at what I know...the big mistake all the while was that I didn't try hard enough.

Redefinition of Realizationism 

   Therefore this work will redifines me and measure what my heart can fathom or what my mind can think of. If you look at it, you would probably say that its okay...it would probably get some thumbs up already...The satisfaction had been reach...

   But it surprises me that I can actually go further than what I was made to believe...overcoming my fear that I would actually ruin my work if I delve into hyper-realism...

   I know I still have much more to learn in the process...the above work is on-going, and as I've said these will redefine me as a person. 

   Now comparing my earlier approaches...

   

Therefore I plan to renovate some of my earlier pieces...an I'm excited in the challenges ahead of me. 

Give Us This Day....

"Give us this day our daily bread..."

Acrylic on Paper 12X16 inches

It doesn't happen all the time...I'm full charge, inspired, and in my best artistic sanity. I created three original artworks in less than 24 hours. 

Ala-ala ng Textmate

Acrylic on Paper 12X16 inches

Found an old wood panel...I want to retain its raw look...call this one "Sahog"

Step by Step Michelle

Michelle Pfeiffer

12X18 inches in Acrylic

My Self-Search Years as an Artist part 1

July 10th added another year in my life...

   Poetry on my artworks appeared during my PNC- CELEC years (circa 1985-87). I've often included lines or verses on almost each and every artworks that I've created during those years. Some are directly written on the work itself or at the back of each piece. It was my most prosperous years as an artist as I've been very prolific then, creating an artwork each day or even turning up to 5 pieces per day.

   I was so full of hope then, vibrant and youthful....

   I've always wanted to impart a little story on them. "The words beneath each colors and shapes"  had been my unofficial tagline then; as well as Proverbs 16:3

"Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established."

   I was also somewhat of a philosopher during those years. Perhaps that is always the case if you are still self-searching. Exploring the truths and even trying to unravel the meaning of life. 

   The very first visual manuscript was also discovered during those years. Trying to solve the growing number of papers filing on my collections,  I've made a portfolio of them by the way; because it was the advise of our Workshop facilitators during the Cultural Center of the Philippines Summer Visual Arts workshop to keep our works for future references. The portfolio itself became my insignia and my lifetime theses. The very first book I called UnKitch was first label as a sort of Junk Art. My Colleague then at PNC became the first critique of those collections.  

   I also founded an Art group which we called SAPIN--SAmahan ng mga PIntor sa Normal (formally started in 1986) where we were able to held two group shows during my term as chairman dubbed as "Tubig-Culay, Guhit-Lapit, atbp." and "Kamalayan" exhibits. 

   CELEC means College Electoral Committee where I've been assigned to hold the Publicity Chairmanship for Two and a half years during my College day at Philippine Normal University. 

   When I have to leave PNC to work and face the reality of life, slowly that dream of a full time career as an artist slowly fades.... the reality of life has to be on top of everything. 

   I've worked from here and there...my artistry had to be set aside. I still do visit my Visual Manuscripts from time to time especially during my lowest of days. These manuscripts had undergone various transformation...evolving as I traverse into life...mostly are melancholic expressions or outpouring of sentiments. Dying dreams...of undying hopes yet blurry visions. 

   There's always my faith.  Although sometimes I falter...

   I have wandered to the wrong path and had turn into worldly things. The visions dies...left my God also and became a prodigol son. 

after the storm...the shakening, God is still faithful to his promises