C.P.Adorio, Sunday Painter: The Arabesque Series

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The Arabesque Series

Pigment ink and pen on 9"x12" Bristol Board. Custom envelope and stationery from Bristol Board.

5 comments:

martinealison said...: Je m'autorise deux commentaires ma chère CES!... ici juste pour te dire qu'il faut que tu prennes soin de toi et que je comprends aisément ton souci... Gros bisous; January 05, 2011 11:36 AM
martinealison said...: Comme je suis un peu fruitcake! je pensais pouvoir te laisser un message sur ton autre blog!!!
GROS BISOUS ENCORE...; January 05, 2011 11:37 AM
Andrew Finnie said...: Heh Martine makes me laugh.
Ces well you work is a beautiful as you must be.
Anyway, hope you are well.
Quite is good.
Think of all the nice people you have met via your art.
All those people in different countries.
You could be reaching across the centries in many ways.

Stay well and hope you are well

regards

andrew; January 05, 2011 7:55 PM
Andrew Finnie said...: hah said hope you are well twice... hold on. that's three times - can't fool me; January 05, 2011 7:56 PM
Ces said...: Aaaaawwwww! You two are darling! Thank you very much!; January 16, 2011 9:07 PM

INVENTING

When I was in in 5th grade, I got a B in home economics for creating my own cross stitch design. My teacher told me that I was inventing my own design when I was supposed to cross stitch from a kit. My sister and I then invented a dance sequence called "Inventing" in defiance of the teacher. I did not like that teacher. When I was in nursing college, I had this dream of becoming a medical painter or illustrator like Dr. Frank Netter. My nursing notes were filled with illustrations, especially the microbiology notebooks. After graduating from college, I had my rural internship in the mountains. I did not do any art, instead, I learned to ride a motorcycle. Later, I studied speech pathology and illustrated instruction manuals on speech exercises for families of children with cerebral palsy. I also illustrated speech articulation cards for patients. During traffic hours in Manila, I often got stranded in traffic jams. I took the time to illustrate the urban scenes and landscapes. When I immigrated to the US in 1982, I started oil painting everyday and cross-stitching on the weekends, while working as a nurse. I painted over 100 large canvas paintings. I gave away most of them. Between 1986 and 2004 I did not paint but drew hundreds of architectural floor plans and schematic drawings of farms and cities while working as a trauma and emergency nurse and raising two young children with my husband. I started oil painting full time in 2004 again while my children were in grade school. I was also employed as a clinical analyst. My specialty is writing clinical decision support rule modules. I also bought a boatload of scrap-booking materials and equipment. They are waiting to be used. These days I alternate between pen and ink drawing and oil painting. I am learning to watercolor. It is very frustrating for me. If not for the sable brushes and the 400-pound watercolor paper, which I love, I would have given up long ago. I don't know why I keep drawing and painting. I love art supplies. I pray when I paint and draw. My squiggles are the equivalent of Buddhist prayer wheels.