Table Drawings III

Table drawings III

78.74 cm x 45.72 cm

Collaged gouache drawings on paper

2015

Botanicals

Botanicals I

26.7 cm x 38.1 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

Botanicals II

26.7 cm x 38.1 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

Botanicals III

26.7 cm x 38.1 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

Botanicals I

26.7 cm x 38.1 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

small drawings

 

Hive

24.5 cm x 25.4 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

 

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 Fish Head

24.5 cm x 25.4 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

Rossano Capili

 

Skull

24.5 cm x 25.4 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

Genus Paeonia

Genus Paeonia

78.75 cm x 109.22 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

portraits

Got some time off during the holidays to draw portraits of people who made a difference in my life for the past years, Its been a while since I've done portraits and its good to be back practicing it again. To start off here is my portrait of my mentor Ross Capili done in opaque gouache on paper.

Ross is an award-winning and one of the established abstract painter in the Philippines. More info about him at facebook.com/StudioRosscapili/

Rosscapili

22.86 cm x 30.48 cm

Gouache on paper

2015

habit of forming

Habit of forming

157.5 cm x 109.22 cm

Gouache and pencil on paper

2015

 

 

 

TABLE DRAWINGS is extended until December 30, 2015

The ArtAlley - Unit 324 LRI Design Plaza, Nicanor Garcia St. Bel Air II, Makati City

For more information you may call Ellen Capili at 8368799 or email one_workshop@yahoo.com

Table Drawings

My participation, along with other Philippine artists, at the 2014 Langkawi Art Biennale in Malaysia rekindled my interest in the basics of drawing and painting. As long as I remember, Oscar Wilde’s quip that "continuity is the last refuge of the unimaginative" has underpinned my approach. And then, in Langkawi, surrounded by beautiful flora and fauna, and in the company of other artists, my creative instincts led me to compile a set of drawings true to my initial learning.

I have always tried to commence each composition or compilation with 'beginner's mind'. Hence, I regularly change subjects and mediums, and deviate from the safety net of familiarity and “marketability”. Unpredictability has continued to fuel my thirst for creating and I have avoided formulaic style.

During the in-between hours in Langkawi, when the Philippine delegation organized spot drawing, I realized that I had in recent years delved much into abstract that I had forgotten the basics of drawing and painting. The idea of creating a series came to mind and I searched for photos from antiquarian books on biology and zoology and the like, magazines, encyclopedias and the internet- looking specifically for flora and fauna. Trading the easel for a table, I sat down late at night or early in the morning, drawing various images from my research.

The result is 'Table Drawings' - a collection of gouache drawings completed during the past eight months since my return from Langkawi.  The folio aims to remove the work from the category of simply 'drawing' as some of the drawings are grouped and arranged randomly in order to create the effect of collage comprising a visually loose and dispersed. Yet, constitute a whole, visual journal.

To achieve fluidity, I experimented with the paper surface and gouache, which in turn allowed for an accidental quality, yet retaining the photography reference. Importantly, as all artworks are completed in gouache and pencil and on velum paper and drawn in the traditional manner, I have remained true to ‘drawing’ in this folio.

TABLE DRAWINGS opens on November 14, Saturday, 6pm

The ArtAlley - Unit 324 LRI Design Plaza, Nicanor Garcia St. Bel Air II, Makati City

Exhibit runs until November 30, 2015.

For more information you may call Ellen Capili at 8368799 or email one_workshop@yahoo.com

Sunday

Still life from the series of my gouache drawings.

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Sunday

21.59 cm x 25.4cm

Gouache on paper

2015

Ms Lulu Avellana