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It’s 9:30 and the story still has to take shape in his head. His head is not blank. Indeed, it is filled with too many things. It is the blank space he has to put there before…
In teaching young students how to draw, start by asking them to draw something, anything, without giving them any prior instructions whatsoever. Tell them to hold on to this first drawing. Teaching young people to draw changes…
He likes hotels. He is writing this at the Big Hotel in Cebu where lines are neatly arranged all about him. One gets the sense that the line was of great interest to the designers when they…
When he tells his friends he teaches his drawing classes inside a structured syllabi, they react with disbelief. They think he is a person who does not abide by any structure. They do not understand he is…
These are challenging times, one fraught both with dangers and opportunities, more dangers and more opportunities than ever before inside this older man’s lifetime. He was born in the mid-1950s. Soon after the end of the previous…
He would be lying if he told you he does not flirt. He has quite an excuse for it. He thinks he is a writer. And what a writer does, in a way of putting it, is…
Pope Francis’ visit to New York reminded him of the biblical story of Jesus entering Jerusalem. He had in the course of his career as an illustrator of books made several versions of this biblical scene: Jesus…
There is something of a first lesson in drawing he teaches his students. He teaches art and design. He expects that by the time the students come to him they already know how to draw. His role…
He saw a painting by Jose “Kimsoy” Yap when he was still a young man. It was a watercolor painting of a shore line, waves crashing into crags and rocks, foam flying outwards in a burst of…
The headlines read that she said the Liberal Party should not wait for her to decide if she will run as running mate to Mar Roxas. We are used to nebulous political statements of that sort. They…
He was going through his photo albums looking for a particular picture, a faded black-and-white photograph of him and his kindergarten class. He remembers his kindergarten teacher would have been to the right of the class, a…
Janine Barrera-Castillo’s “Elemental Light” is ongoing at the Qube Gallery in Crossroads. She invites interested readers to her “artist’s reception” at 6 p.m. this Thursday, 23 July 2015 at the same venue. Janine was one of the…
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