a rant

My Life is My Art My Art is My Life: a rant: if you think this post is about my diego, then you are wrong. (believe me, my diego is my fave subject to write about. but i got to rant, ...

My Life is My Art My Art is My Life: herak man

My Life is My Art My Art is My Life: herak man: kanigoan na alboroto. siya, iyo man palan. naman. kanigoan na kaanggotan. gibo-gibo niya man palan. naman. hale sa burakburakan. ...

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presents

seeya'll there!

 

distractions...aaahhh!

today i decided to get an early start.  i woke before the rest of the world, grabbed a cuppa brew, the last napoleones from bacolod and headed to my studio downstairs to create.

i sat down in front of my working table, facing the stark emptiness of my blank canvass.  my eyes unfocused for a moment, as i sipped my coffee, waiting for the caffeine to kick in and inspiration to strike.

nothing.  bwahahaha!

i swivelled over to my lappy, noticing the little red thing that tells me i got some comments on my FB.  drawn like a magnet, i checked it out right away.  then, after going through FB notices and emails, i return to my blank slate, which is now rather intimidating.

the clock ticks a little louder as i notice an hour has already passed by.

after an unsatisfying attempt to sketch out a few compositions on the canvass, i justify getting up to wake up manilyn so she can start sweeping off the leaves from my yard.

upon returning, i realize i can't possibly continue without another cuppa coffee and head back to the kitchen just one more time.
while filling my cup, i noticed some magazines skewed from how i put them, so i checked and started to re-arrange them, as i want them arranged.  surely, after this and the second cuppa, i will be more at ease and able to channel my creativity.

only after the minutes turn to hours and my "early start" has become a late one do i realize that i have succumbed to the easy seduction of distractions.

ooops, i did it again!

in reality, it is my own internal resistance to the act of producing something.  feelings of self-doubt, criticism, and negative beliefs produce an anxiety that cripples the creative process.

i often catch myself in this cycle when it comes time to paint.

i become anxious about what the final outcome will be even before i start, and have to force myself to let go and allow myself to create without expectation, without judgement and without protection.  i don't always arrive at the place easily.   sometimes it takes hours, sometimes even days, before i am able to push through the discomfort and put brush to canvass.

i have learned that leaning into the flame, not away from it, is the best solution.  if i allow myself to sit long enough with those uncomfortable feelings, and create anyway, i eventually discover that those feelings subside.

when the craving to distract myself appears, as i know it does, i simply sit and wait for some minutes before taking action.  the power of the craving, while initially intense, will become more tolerable to withstand.  i begin to gain conscious control of myself, rather than instinctively seek a diversion.

i learned to sit still, and work through that resistance to creativity.  it means staying at the canvass, or the computer, and creating nonetheless.  

creativity will win over the feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt and criticism.

before i know it, i have that productive day i was seeking.




go, go, go!  create!

ilysm. thank you for the colours!  ♥ ♥ ♥

Juanito Penera

la mujer de la huerta - bidibidi collection

juanito penera, nitz, to friends, is one of the artists of the salingoy art group of naga.  ever since i saw nitz's works, i have been drawn to them.  in fact, i have, in my personal collection, four of his works and i love all of them.  he paints with brilliant colours and depicts women so delicately.

mother & child - bidibidi collection

una familia en la huerta - bidibidi collection

tres marias: teresa, bidibidi, dorothy - teresa collection

 my friend atty matt ballesteros also has one of his works.

nuestra senora de penafrancia - atty matt ballesteros collection

he has three works on exhibit now at the cafe des artes, baao, camarines sur, philippines.

currently on exhibit - reserved for teresa

currently on exhibit

currently on exhibit

start your own collection and enjoy nitz's art.

Bungkag Kulay - an art exhibit

the Salingoy Art Group

Burikbutikan Baao & Salingoy art Group

Burikbutikan Baao:  OsacnaB, pbprobosa, bidibidi, tobmeb, jbicaldo

this is my belief and am firm with it: artists benefit from relationships with other artists. period.

the medium does not really matter.  what matters is having contact with other creative individuals is inspiring, motivating and definitely necessary.

lomie daliva

rommel perez

richard perez

OsacnaB

pancho piano

oct 8 marked the opening of an art exhibit @ the cafe des artes, here in baao, camsur.  this exhibit features artists from naga city, of the salingoy art group.

frank penones and pancho piano

bidibidi, pancho piano, josil and marlene

cris and harold gomez, OsacnaB, tobmeb

pancho piano & bidibidi

bwahahaha!

bungkag kulay - an art exhibit

the salingoy art group of naga city 

invites everyone to 

"bungkag kulay" 

on 8 Oct 2011 

@ Cafe des Artes, 

Villa Esperanza, 

San Nicolas, Baao, CS