A thirst for coffee painting

Coffee stains...... and it is here to stay in the art scene

My venture into coffee painting started as a relaxation medium, meaning as a Visual Artist it is not my main method of self-expression until an international buyer came last year and purchased one of my coffee painting.... from thereI I begun to take serious cosideration to level up my work on this field and do some research and personal experimentation to come up with my own set of imagery that will best express my represantation on this new found medium. Coffee painting as an accepted area of Fine Art, that is perhaps my goal at this stage.

Frolic, 2018

Just Tell Me, coffee painting

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Care Because it is Heavenly

Care because it is a "Heavenly" thing. When you say heavenly it means eternal. 

Worldly things lost its value as you receive more and more of it. Like when you're hungry...the first food that enters your mouth means so much. After so-many bites, the food become less meaningful. The same goes to wealth. When a poor man receives a thousand pesos it means so much to him but to a Rich man it means little. 

That is what Economist called The Law of Diminishing returns. Meaning that anything you receive in this world will mean much to you when you first receive it, but as you continue to receive more and more of the same, it will satisfy you less and less....

But Care or Caring is not like that..it will always feel the same. Care does not diminish its value. The Law of Diminishing return does not apply to Caring. 

So when you say you don't care to someone...it means you don't care about Heavenly things.....

After 29 years finally I've met the genius in our class Teacher Ana Taco-Maloa.... she actually didn't change that much. Still funny, talkative....and it was her who commissioned me for the above coffee painting for her sister's wedding anniversary. Brings back good old days...and teachers life.

Retracing The Masters

There is a need to analyze and re-assess what's going on in my life. What are the right questions that would align me to my purposes as a human being. To many re...repackaging, reinforce, replay, recount, reassure, or could be reject. 

Work even harder...FOCUS on....

God help me. 

This popularity thing, I don't want that to get on top of my head but I also need to be known publicly..the wider the better.

Think I'll be centering for awhile on meaning recording of genre scene. But before that I just made a coffee copy of Da Vinci's self-portrait (header). To experience that moment with a great painter. What's on his head while doing these....

a rekindle affair with watercolor.... truly submerge on this one that I didn't even glimpse on my Facebook page the whole day....also on my head was my fellow artist...the frustrations that they tried to hide...to struggle...to continually paint for the love of it. 

People will not understand. I hope they will....haven't they? 

FB Post....

Ayan nagkaroon tuloy ako ng Walang Wentang Tip of the day...yun pong mga Woodless pencils ay nababasag, kaya ingatan nyo na wag mahulog. :( wahhhhhhhhh !!! 
anyway, bukod sa mukha magandang praktis ang pag sketch ng Kamay lalo na ang palad, madaming nagaganap na mga kurba at linya sa kamay...DON'T JUST LOOK; TRAIN YOUR EYES TO SEE, what I mean is, REALLY SEE...wag mag assume ng linya...don't think ahead..just focus on the moment.... That's the secret of FOCUS.

♫ There are three ducklings that I saw... ♪ 
☺ 
Rich kid: What's your baon today?
Poor kid: "Kamote again.... :( 
Rich kid: Wow yummy! Sweet Poh-tah-toh :D
:D 

Fher

With A Little Luck

soft-edges and invisible signature

Again, what about the life of a freelancer? No regular income and relying on Luck. Yup, talent isn't a real guarantee....many mediocre artists make it on top.

Always coming to that point of realizations that connections are one of the most vital element for success. 

Mediocre artists may make it on top....at times to the point similar to prostitutions. But real art, no matter how or what happened will re-emerge....

Just the other day, I feel so down about not having projects, and instantly...again, as if the Universe aligns if you truly needed a rescue...at least a push...affirmation that I must continue....

...so a portrait commission coming up...Big. He want it lifesize....

School Time Once Again

Kape para kay Titser 

School season once again....financial blows once more and I'm here, just here. If I could change the world. And my daughter Elyona is now Grade 5...how time simply skid into an enormous speed. 

Dahil may isang anak na na-challenge sa hamon na subukan ang iba't-ibang medium....

Somebody asked kung ano raw magandang paint medium kung nag-uumpisa ka pa lang...para sakin it should be Acrylic or Acri-color (industrial type preferably Boysen) Mas makakatipid pa kayo habang nag-aaral....oo nga naman hindi mo kasi pwedeng bilhin lahat..pwera na lang kung anak ka ni Tong-gresman. Hehe.

Very flexible kasi ang application ng Acrylic, it can behave like a watercolor and can also be stroke na parang oil paint. Also may deceivingly appear like a watercolor as well as oil medium...can be applied sa halos lahat ng surface.

 At times you will feel so bad that you we're unable to help financially to family members..you're heart broke....

2014

Coffee Again

Inclined  to coffee painting as my second medium once again... it's like a second nature to me now...I feel relax doing these....including the smell although the aroma is quite hallucinating.
Today I made a real-time coffee painting tutorial on FB.

 

Can we really alter the thought pattern of the world around us? If mere words or intentions can affect the form of water and basically we are what? 80 percent water? 

Re-occurrences of physical malfunctions..it is because I've lost track of my eating pattern again. How easy am I to be lax....I need to return that intermittent diet once again. 

“Why is it that the normal diet is three meals a day plus snacks? It isn’t that it’s the healthiest eating pattern, now that’s my opinion but I think there is a lot of evidence to support that. There are a lot of pressures to have that eating pattern, there’s a lot of money involved. The food industry — are they going to make money from skipping breakfast like I did today? No, they’re going to lose money. If people fast, the food industry loses money. What about the pharmaceutical industries? What if people do some intermittent fasting, exercise periodically and are very healthy, is the pharmaceutical industry going to make any money on healthy people?” (source)

♫There were no violins...There were no soft guitars

Hot summer love under the city stars

I was Mister Dynamite..and you were my only girl.... ♪ 

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Violin on my Head

12" X 9"

Coffee on paper

2016