C.P.Adorio, Sunday Painter: Familiar Images

9.1.11

Familiar Images

A painting on a painting on a drawing. I like to incorporate my paintings and drawings on other paintings and drawings. These are individual oil paintings and illustrations, some measuring 30" x 40". Top left, Medium Green Tea, oil on canvas 20"x24" found on next oil painting titled Chartreuse 30" x 40". Fiesta Blues 24"x36" also found on the background of a 30"x40" oil painting titled Pearl Grey with the painting of the nurse. The oil paintings of The nurse 20"x16" and The Dream 20"x16" were originally drawn on a doodle of colored pigment ink called Diablo de Uteri an on a 10"x8" sketchbook page.

3 comments:

Jack Foster said...: Wow Ces! You are so prolific! I don’t know how you get so much done and with such detail and amazing artistry! These “familiar” works are fantastic! and I just jumped ahead to your trees! WOW! I’m getting a deja vu feeling because I’m saying ‘wo’ and ‘amazing’ . But I can’t help but repeat myself every time I look at your amazing work. Wow! You are an inspiration!; January 09, 2011 10:42 AM
k.h.whitaker said...: familiar and lovely Ces, I hope you aren't working too hard and can find time to create!; January 09, 2011 3:28 PM
INDIGENE said...: I'm loving your use of color! I hope you are well and enjoying the second week of the new year!; January 10, 2011 9:11 PM

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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.