C.P.Adorio, Sunday Painter: An Antidote To ATC (Artist Trading Cards)

18.12.11

An Antidote To ATC (Artist Trading Cards)

It started as an innocent exercise in drawing ATC (Artist Trading Cards) or ACEO (Art Cards Editions or Originals). So small, so confining, so limiting, so insignificant, so most certainly I had to "cessify" it. But I did not think that it would end up like these. Notice the ATC or ACEO, they measure 2.5"x3.5". When they are matted, double matted here, they look so small so I thought I should illustrate the mats...

4 comments:

Steve E said...: Been walking Lucky. He and I enjoyed the trip around "little Haiti" and Little Cuba, Jamaica, etc. Lots of good music on a Sunday afternoon, to inspire painting--Oh I wish...

HEY your inspiration to illo the mats--brilliant.
We should
never ever
expect less
from Ces.

We always get to see how your mind works! good. That famous musician of more than 200 years ago (I won't say his name again, embarrassing you?) NEWAZ...he kept those diagrams, notes, melodies, harmonies, rhythms, on-the-spot-revisions etc., and that is how we see how HIS mind worked.

Of course, neither he nor you 'show and tell' us all these things for that reason. However, it is all in the Plan!

thank you.; December 18, 2011 11:27 AM
Tammie said...: absolutely
positively
gorgeous!; December 18, 2011 12:34 PM
Shirley said...: OH my gosh, Ces..you are amazing! Illustrating the mats..they are gorgeous! LOVE how these all turned out..how do you do it?! I hope you are well my sisterfriend..today I spent (wasted hours) time on the blog- and it doesn't look any better..oh well. I then got back to painting and finished one. Whew! Wishing you a good week ahead!! xoox; December 18, 2011 9:45 PM
Ces said...: Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!!!

You are all so kind. These are just fun exercises. Hopefully people will like them. Thank you again.; December 19, 2011 7:14 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.