Like A Virgin, so overwhelmed with my First-Ever Art Exhibit

"Panoynoy" 1x1 (excluding the frame) WV on Paper
-my first ever exhibited artwork! :)
Photo Credit: Raisa Joy G. (for Gorgeous) Castel

There's always a first time for everything. And last 2012 had been a year of firsts for me. One of the things I never imagined that I'll have a first time with is an art exhibit. But I was lucky enough to be invited by one of my friends, Don Demetita, to submit an artwork for the Children's Month Celebration last October 5, 2012 to the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) Art Gallery.

Precariously vicarious

It's 2013! So, happy new year!!! It's also Dinagyang today, so, happy Dinagyang, as well!

There's not that much that has happened so far this January. Except maybe that I have been reading a lot of books and watched a lot of movies lately to satiate my need to be thrown into lives that aren't my own because I can't find the time and resources (yet) to make mine less boring. In other words, I haven't really created (i.e. written or drawn or painted) anything myself lately. Guilty, puppy-eyed look with bottom lip quivering.

An Appallingly Forgetful Geek

I've been rooting to attend the first-ever Iloilo Comic Con (Robinson's Place, December 1, 2012) ever since Nong Donne posted about it a couple months back. I think I even scribbled it on my organizer and put an entry on my cellphone's calendar.

But I forgot.

"Instructions" by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess, speaks true of being kind and avoiding evil

Please click link to enjoy full color pages of a Neil Gaiman gem:
Browse Inside Instructions by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Charles Vess



Saw this on Nong Gil's blog, Mari-it, clicked on it and discovered a little piece of heaven from papa Neil and illustrator Charles Vess. I'm not real sure if these are all the pages, but anyway, I loved this one page from the book--

This is a little bit similar to one of the popular verses from the Bible -- from Romans 12:20, which says,

"if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."

Just a little something to remind us what forgotten Catechism and/or Sunday school classes had taught us-- to learn to be kind, to know what's the right thing to do under circumstances and to be aware that evil is just lurking beneath the deep dark woods. Just something nice to post and share before I go to bed.  At 3AM. Have a blessed night. Or morning.