Colossal Art - Dongyang woodcarving

it has been some time since i posted something on art
beautiful pieces of art, carved with finess

a sample, then click below to see more

classical art here

Coloring for Adults - a new? craze? fad?

I was one of those kids who loved to color.

i remember asking for the super duper, double stacked crayons - trademark crayola - for the coloring superiority.  Only crayola provided the best colors then.  i remember this fondly.  i am a little too mature for crayolas now, except when i do the melt-the-crayola-thing on a glass plane for more art work.

i love colors.  you should see my art materials - i have watercolor paints, acrylics, pastels, and oils, and of course, color pencils.  what i dont have is - the time to really indulge.  To do oils, i have to be in a specific frame of mind, and have good light

With the recent coloring craze or fad (how nice for me!), i was steered towards COLORFY, a coloring thingo in the internet. SSS VP Susie Bugante  was the person who showed me how and where.  Fascinating really.  The application is free, but i am feeling inclined to pay to get access to the complex illustrations and additional color.  I have to think about it though.

I just had a debate with my friend Dale from high school who said this application is soo simple - just point and point.  I said it is a beautiful way to stop thinking or to channel thinking into some ... positive thoughts.  I mentioned that coloring manually is fulfilling - of course, you mix the colors manually, overlaying the colors if need be. but you'd have to bring so much stuff.  You need to bring your coloring book (or pad or paper or sketch), your colors, your sharpener, and what not... I also use markers.  Too much equipment to lug around.  I told my friend that in COLORFY - you only need your tablet.

my color stuff in COLORFY is posted in FB but i'll see if i can post some over here.

If you are worried, tense, and need to relax.  I suggest you try this app.  it is a nice one.

Museo Orlina at Tagaytay, Sunday - 17 May

Alice had been telling me about Museo Orlina located in Tagaytay for some time now.

And Reality came last Sunday, 17 May when we set off to finally take our look-see

A champagne "flute", designed by Orlina, owned by Lagdameo

at the lobby, other art works - Orlina in the video

lovebirds - Alice and Manny

Manny, in the lower grounds, admiring the Pilita art

Jhong

at Starbucks

do you like cats? a Colossal look at them

Cats.  Independent. Snotty. Prideful.
and Lovely.

Click and take a look

Pretty Money - Hungarian Euro?

Seen such pretty money

take a look

d'you think it will encourage savings? or expenditures?

Colossal Art recommends (and i concur....)
i just had to share


Take a look at these flowers

A Viral Post on Malts - drinks, anyone?

Single Malts.  it isnt quite appropriate to say yum, but .... wellllll....

it goes down well .... it also looks quite spectaculat

take a look-see. click here

A Viral Post - Creatures of the Mind

this is interesting ... do you have your own mind creatures?

click here to see the mind creatures

Magical places via viral

do look

click here for truly magical places

A Colossal pic ... worthy of Van Gogh

This is located along a bike path and partly named after Van Gogh.
Gorgeous, isnt it?  Here's a sample pic so you'd be encourage to click some mor below.













click to see more pics

Just got this in the mail - and wanted to share

i have forgotten how i got to know Su Blackwell's art.  
She lives miles and miles away from me -- but i have gotten to love her work

Remember Art must strike your heart, and click with your passions for it to stay with you
Evermore, as the Raven said ...

Click here for a look-see at her art

and to encourage you to click here's  a pic to spur your curiousity

A Colossal view - The Apocalypse

See these pictures and get an early view of the Apocalypse in an Industrial setting
i just hope i am no longer around when this comes to pass .........


to encourage you to click -- here's a sample of what you will see when you do click the link below ----

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/08/paintings-by-michael-kerbow-warn-of-dire-consequences-for-current-actions/?mc_cid=930f54cb18&mc_eid=3406ccddf9

Abueva - The Power of Form - Exhibit at the Met

Last Saturday, National Artist Napoleon Abueva celebrated his 84th birthday at the Metropolitan Museum at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas located along Roxas Boulevard.

I considered myself lucky to be invited.  I was also invited at the opening, but i was indisposed and couldnt make it - so i found myself doubly lucky to make it to his birthday.  The "full" exhibit ended last month, the 31st of January.  The bigger pieces has since been returned to the owners - some to the Abuevas, a few to the Consunjis.  As a matter of fact, someone told me that Mrs. David M. Consunji was the lady in white lace.  Most of the Consunji art works were abstracts - and as i viewed them with a great deal of pleasure, i felt the power of motion expressed in the abstracts.  They were mostly bas-relief 

i loved the carabaos, but my favorite piece - the black glossy family of 3 that was roughly half a mil was simply not there, i looked for it and asked my friend and classmate if it had been sold but she wasnt sure
if you want to see a pic of this, hit the arts-and-friends label on the left and you will see it

i liked the bust of my friend Amihan, the eldest of his kids - and that of Duero, the youngest son.

my friend Alice likes the Judas kiss, the surface of this piece reminds me of the Easter Island heads.

i love the circular slatted room, and if i were lavishly rich, i'd have it near the pool, but protected from the elements.  you would know why if you had seen it.

i also would buy the doors, if i had a castle or mansion to showcase it.  lovely doorway - a gateway to beauty and spiritual peace.

btw, it isnt too late to see some of them, only the larger pieces have been removed.  you can still view the smaller items - 

the Met is open Mondays-Saturdays.  Go see it, and maybe buy a few, especially if you can afford it

Colossal Art

Physics + Paint = Brilliant Art.
Take a look

Click here to see the Colossal (and mine) recommended wonderful art

A Colossal Thought

Are you a reader? I am.  I read lots of stuff, i think i have mentioned before, from the sublime to the ridiculous, all of them interesting.

i  read for the fun of it, and i come by this love of reading from both sides of the family.  My Mom's family are readers and they have tons of books.  Unfortunately though, the floods in the Sampaloc area during those times have destroyed some of them.  From my Dad's side are all prodigious readers, and all the family have libraries.  Some of those books have been given away.

i must have read over a 1000 books, and i havent included the romance books i read in High School, or numerous Peanuts, and my collection of Calvin and Hobbes.

i try and read all of Neil Gaiman's, and i have a favorite one.

i have books on Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, and Descartes. I also have books on Lemony Snicket ... and whodunnits galore (Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, The Cat Who series by Lilian Braun..... and more).

i tend to love fantasy and sci-fi so I have Tolkien, Asimov, StarTrek (TOS, of course), Ray Bradbury, Clarke, and one of the books i love is by Madeleine L'Engle. She wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet .... as a cover of one of those books is supposedly a seraphim.  Yes, and the art work -- see the link --- depicted reminds me of that.

you do remember what seraphims are, right?

Click here for an interesting peek at surreal-wildlife-paintings-by-tiffany-bozic/?src=footer

Colossal pick

Mary, Mary, how does your garden grow ...

well, here's a camera garden i found as one of the Colossal picks
amazing.  i want a butterfly garden...... maybe i should invest in some wire and some colorful netting

click here for the camera garden selected by Colossal

Colossal art Rec - shimmering fence

wanted to share this beautiful chain linked art

Click here for a look at shimmering-chain-link-fence-installation-by-soo-sunny-park/

A Colossal Rec : Iris Scott finger paintings

Colossal recommends this artist finger oil paints.
i particular like the fox because it reminds me of a story i read when i was in grade ....6 or 7 maybe?
It was about a fox and a saint, and this fox looks very much like the illustration in that book
if memory serves, the fox called himself Reynard .... but that was eons ago....

still the colors are as vibrant....


Click here to see iris scot tprints original-finger-paintings

Liquid Sculptures - a Colossal rec

A fascinating look at the waves - imagine them to be the waves in your life

CLICK HERE for liquid-sculptures-powerful-waves-photographed-by-pierre-carreau-seem-frozen-in-time/?src=footer

When Dad cares .....

how nice that this Dad makes daily art for his kids.....

i like the idea that he takes pictures because it will be a wonderful memory as they grow older

A graphic designer Dad does this for his kids everyday...