1. Capture Ephemeral Nature through Painting
2. Palette Board Speaks of Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life
3. Living Prism in the Deep
4. Global Warming is creating a new Art Movement
5. Techniques in Impressionistic Paintings
6. Two Faces of our Planet Earth Chandelier
7. Evolving Art, ad infinitum
8. Make your own transforms for teaching and decoration
9. Two Paintings: Secret of the Heart and Innocence in Nature
10. Nature Paintings Revival
Copyright 2015 by C & E Publishing, Inc 237 pp
Abercio V Rotor and Kristine Molina-Doria
Living Prism in the Deep
lingers, flickers the light saved by the day
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Neither!
Summer is when the sun is brighestto nourish the plants into full bloom;the fields transform green to golden,haystacks growing like mushroom.
Autumn is when the wind gets chilly,birds in the sky migrate southward,among stars and kites and fireflies,and trees wear their brightest ward.
Neither!
Never again will summer or autumncome, the march of seasons gonewhere once Paradise stood proud,prouder a rational wandering son.
It's a riddle, shocking, senseless and cruel,seeking answer not only to what but why;an elephant, a hog, a bull, save your guess,science knows no limit like the endless sky.neither direction nor purpose, obedienceto sacredness of creation nor of humanity.Frankenstein's regret too late to destroywhat he created, a fiend to life's sanctity.It's a riddle, more than the Sphinx's threat,the key to safe passage in ones journey;move over robot, we may say to strangers,yet strangers we are seen too, by many.Where now leads the path of evolutionof millions of years to what all the livingare today? Move over Darwin, Mendel et al;your time is up, it's genetic engineering!Did man destroy Eden on purpose then?knowledge and disobedience on one table,then to build and to destroy are also one;beauty in his eyes and heart insatiable. ~
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Techniques in Impressionistic Paintings
Acrylic painting on glass in three dimensions: seaweeds, fish and the deep. There is apparent movement, yet there is peace among the creatures living in co-existence. Step 1: dark background. Step 2: fish and other red colors. Step 3: seaweeds, transferred from separate impression. Step 4: details like air bubbles. Step 5: fixing with lacquer spray. Step 6: framing, or "edging" (liston)
Mural (5 ft x 10 ft) acrylic. Repetition has a powerful effect - it serves as boundary yet gives a sense of depth a feeling the viewer is at the edge of a forest. The source of light however, is from inside the forest. Step 1: stretch canvas on 2"x 3"x 10' kiln dry lumber. Step 2: use white latex to seal canvas surface. Step 3: use palette for the trees. Step 4: dub premixed yellow and blue for vegetation. Step 5: details like flowers, sunbeam, and red to break monotony. Note: Don't use fixative, let the painting as is, just protect it from direct sunlight.
Fiery flowers emerge from below to meet the sun, only to wither soon after the bees have done their chores. Wither, one by one, younger flowers succeeding, a cycle of life and life giving, progenies born one after another. How could you paint such a cycle but by impressionism? Impressionism leaves much of what is to be said. For the mind is richer where it is left with space to explore, and meaning to seek. It is not easy to depict a phenomenon on a single canvas when it takes immeasurable time and innumerable stages to complete. Step 1: start with the flowers, large and unarranged. Step 2: apply thick dark green and light green in ascendant strokes, heaviest at the base. Step 3: Add flowers at the center to give focus. Step 4: add light green ascendant lines as foliage.
Hazy, light and soft to the eye and touch. How is this done in contrast with the still life previously explained above? Here the colors used are first mixed with white on the palette, never on canvas. Choose the hues and keep the contrast low so that the boundaries are smudged, with pleasing effect. There is a tendency to end up with muddy appearance. Maintain restraint, give that "cloud nine" look. It fits well on a wall where peace and quiet reign. It invites relaxation. ~
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Two Faces of our Planet Earth Chandelier
Indigenous Chandelier by Dr Abe V Rotor
Light in the air, swaying with the wind;Heavy in the air dull, still;Pristine, natural in the absence of man,Defiled, dead, can't humans feel?
Indigenous art, ecological in message, this piece of art tells to viewers looking up to this hanging parol and chandelier. No candles, no light, no chime, except the natural radiance and music of the pristine face of our Planet Earth.
So rare today this happy face beams, so commonplace the sad face shrouds cities where more than half of the world's population of 8 billion souls are ensconced in the so-called Good Life, the "ultimate" aim of civilization.
What is the Good Life in the current Corona Virus pandemic? Good life in global economic depression? Good life in widespread poverty? Good life in inequity and injustice? Global breakdown of institutions, from marriage and family, threatening to destroy the pillars of human society?
What is Good Life with the Israel war in Gaza? Russian war in Ukraine? And in other critical spots, civil wars and drug wars, notwithstanding? Cities burgeoning into metropolises and megapolises? Growing widespread depression leading to suicide? Hopelessness spreading among the young and old alike?
What is the Good Life in a "floating continent of garbage" twice bigger Texas, thrice that of France? Unabated rise of sea level as a result of continuing global warming? Acid rain ruining productive farms? Radiation emanating from transmission and communication towers, and from millions of computers and smartphones?
What is the Good life in science and technology gone wild? Good life in the explosion of knowledge, grain and chaff mixed up? Good life in erosion of values? Good Life in the failure of governance - local, regional, global?
We have yet to learn from "the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome," and the Dark Age that enveloped the world thereafter. We have yet to learn from the Renaissance that followed a millennium after. If only man's rationality can save him from his own destruction. ~
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Make your own transforms for teaching and decoration
Two Paintings: Secret of the Heart and Innocence in Nature
Hidden, the heart throbsin deep silence;two nails embedded,unseen in pretenceof living, loving, caring,the highest art,filling the five chambersof the heart.
Abstract over realism can you paint innocence,move over classics, you are too pureto be true, and impressionism too assuming,with apologies to Monet's azure sky.Oh! abstract indeed is a child's innocence,buds in early spring, grains ripening;heart of a true friend, pledge of real love,growing in the passing of time.Colors are mere symbols, wanting to behold,the magnificence of mind and heart,triumph of the human spirit over our frailty,the most challenging of all art.~
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Nature Paintings Revival
Sway with the breeze, dance with the wind;
Greet the sun with dewdrops clinging;
In summer turn golden, and bow,
And die sweetly to feed the world.
lovers blind to the busy world,
away from the maddening crowd;
fleeting moment is forever,
to this pair in their lair.
Wonder in our midst who we are,
blind to each other, but the world,
strange this crowd we are in;
where's this lovely pair,
where's their bower?
Painting in acrylic (8" X 10")
in one community we call ecology,
ever since the beginning of our living world,
millions of years ago before man was born
to rule, to reign supreme over all creation;
wonder what Homo sapiens means
to true peace and harmony
beyond his rationality.
too eager a bud ahead of your time;
what promise of life awaits tomorrow
from where you've broken through?
Whichever path you take from now,
you'll miss the adventure of youth
in summer, and stillness of winter,
Oh, how could you live to the full?
"For having lost but once your prime,
you'll always tarry," so says a poet;
"It's now or never," so sings a bard,
and I, I've neither a poem nor a song.
I can't see the real you;
in your invincible armor
in any view.
Wonder how many of us
live like the urchin
in silent, unknown ways
and never seen.
two things come to mind:
the butterfly you have become,
and the damage you have done
and left behind.
Art, art, whatever way defined,
the subject on the wall,
or dripping on the floor,
art, art you aren't hard to find
after all. ~
of their nest too soon;
to explore the world beyond,
like the Prodigal Son.
What lies in the deep and dark
cavern with many eyes,
but monsters real or imagined
lurking for a prize.
It’s inevitable stage of life,
all creatures undergo;
weaning - crossing the bridge
and cutting it, too.
with the stars, linking us all
to a Supreme Being. ~
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Where have all the Gardens Gone?Insipient stage of a dying gardenFinal stage and consequent death of a garden.Acrylic paintings by the author, 2015
Where have all the gardens gone,the butterflies and honeybees,dancing and riding on the breeze,dewdrops sparkling in the sun?Where have all the children gone,reminiscent of old Pied Piper,lured to a new land somewhere,and never again to be found?Where have all the ladies gone,in "loves-me-loves-me-not" game,though lose or gain it's the same,flower and love knitted as one?Where have all the good life gone,Nature's gift to the living worldbound by a collective accord.Lo! to man the lost prodigal son. ~
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Nature's Message in Cryptobiology
*Kapres are said to dwell in big trees like acacia, bamboo, and the balete. Some say they are the spirits of trees, protecting them in effect.
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The eye! The eye!among the corals watching.conscience of the sea,over Homo sapiens fishing.
It never winks, it's alive,guarding against man's folly,whose eye, not of man,disgraced guardian of the sea. ~
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Capture and Enshrine Nature in Murals
Murals and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor
Capture nature in murals,as big as screen;
capture creation from imaginationas it has been;
capture sunrise and sunset,and the moonbeam;
capture the breeze passing overa lovely stream;
capture the lilies in the pond risingwith the sunbeam;
capture the clouds becoming nimbusbefore the rain;
capture the rivulets from the hillswrithing in pain;
capture the creatures talking,sing and scream;
capture the essence of the godsinto a theme;
capture silence away from whereyou have been;
capture the throb of the heartaway from sin;
capture the world in a grain of sand,pure and crystalline;
capture nature through the arts,classic and fine;
capture sweet memories of lost nature,relive, enshrine;
capture time, brief as it may -it's yours and mine. ~