Maturity in Artistic Variations

Draft Title: Defiance, 14X20

The Smooth Criminal, 10X14

For Mimai

Influx, 10X14

Verdaccio Process on Angelina Jolie

Acrylic on paper

10X14

I will always be thankful to Maestro Jose Tolentino Jimenez for sharing to me about underpainting...I made a little research and now this work marks the first of that experimentations. 

Verdaccio or underpainting is also called as dead painting....

Verdaccio is an Italian name for the mixture of black, white, and yellow pigments resulting in a grayish or yellowish (depending on the proportion) soft greenish brown.

Verdaccio became an integral part of fresco painting, in which this color is used for defining tonal values, forming a complete monochromatic underpainting. Often architectural details in frescoes are left in verdaccio without any additional color layers; a notable example is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, where verdaccio underpainting can be clearly seen, left as is on all architectural details of the composition.

In oil painting, a similar technique is used by Flemish painters, referred to as the "dead layer," is applied over the traditional bone colour (1 part raw umber to 1 part yellow ochre) priming to refine the values and remove the warm tone of the primer. The resulting "white to olive green to black" underpainting is "like being illuminated by moonlight." It does not affect the tonality of the final painting.

Base Color Green Technique

I've never realized the importance of underpainting till now. Thank you so much to Master Jose Tolentino Jimenez for giving me these idea to try underpainting using green as base color. 

So I made some research via the internet and found quite some good articles and how to's. So it was a classical technique called verdaccio or the dead painting. 

Employing this style ables me to identify tonal value. 

 

A Day with Styles, Strokes and Sketches Society

Friday the 13th (September)...on my way to Makati City for a a sketching session with Styles, Strokes, and Sketches Society and an Angel travel with me (left photo). Maestro Jose Tolentino Jimenez invited me for that sketching with Vince Roque at Sir Pops (Noel David) studio. I miss this kind of gathering as Vince said that we need some bonding time sometimes. 

   The theme of our sketching was  "Holy Cow" to counter the bad vibes of Pork Barrel scam. Sir Pops is the Brain of 4S and it would be our first meeting too. He had this 80 year old Hindu sculpture or idols that he want to get rid off...but first we need to create an artwork out of it....

   I become member of 4S thru Joan Honoridez on October 2, 2012. I become inactive by the end of that year due to so many factor, one is my computer bogged down. 
   Basically 4S is a Tournament site...where patience and determination is a virtue. The Master's Challenge keep the page active where member artist have to render the Photo entry from other artist...or a portrait exchange. Then there's the Monthly Tournament for real bucks in Dollars. No other group in FB can give you that....

   A single day isn't enough to bond with these people so I stayed for an overnight...and attended the Awarding Ceremony the next day. 
     Here are some of the images with 4S.

At Guijo Suites, discussing Singa Cup...L-R... Sir Pops, Tiong Hian, Me, Maestro JJ and Vince Roque. 

My 4th Fish swims to Singapore with Singa Cup organizer Mr. Hian, and Maestro Jose T. Jimenez presenting his dove.

Recent Color Pencils

Colored-pencils are among the first art materials that I've explored...it has always been one of my favorite medium. Here are recent renditions in different variation.  

The Genesis Tragedy

The Genesis Tragedy

18X12 inches

Acrylic

The Artist Frustrations

It's usually the first to get the impact of my moodswings...sometimes it suffers a lot during the process. My Visual manuscripts depict whatever happens to me. My art is me and therefore it reflects most especially on my art journals. 

   Again, just recently...there had been drastic and compulsive changes on these manuscripts. I actually destroyed some of it...from the 12 manuscripts, I trim it down into half...I was frustrated that day. The anger...the angst...the fear...

   Now after regaining my stance...and sanity perhaps, I decided to keep doing these inspite of everything.