LUCIA'S

This painting was a work of pleasure and love. It was a going -away gift to one of my dearest friend and one of the loveliest of women I've had the pleasure and blessing of  being able to share life with.

Having less than a weeks time to do the painting, I poured every free minute I had into completing this. This was at a time when where I lived lacked a studio or space of any kind to actually do any painting. So for that week I turned my dining room into a studio, just so I could do this.

Symbols and designs inspired from Chinese and Hindu art, has been a strong influence over what I have been using in my paintings in the past decade. Thanks to a wonderful and brilliant professor who taught the Asian Art History Class  that I attended back in 2002, my appreciation and love of Asian art, history, and culture has and continues to grow.

The sand skrit symbols that take up the center of the page is alibata; an ancient and formally lost writing method from the Filipines. Alibata has been slowly brought back into Pinoy culture and can be found commonly on the bodies of Pinoy's as tattoos.

This alibata simply says: LUCIA (lu-s-ya)

To Skin or Not to Skin?

Ok, so I put together this design...and as always, I face the question of what to do with it next. I think it would be a cool tat, for me...maybe not. But I would love for any of my friends to wear it. And then, I'm thinking I should transfer it to a huge ass canvass and just go berserk, but there isn't anywhere at the house to do this.

Also, I've been working on other ideas similar to this, and I've been running across this question quite a bit.

To Skin or Not to Skin?

Just another image I wanted to throw your way.

Title: None 1

These painting are 2 pieces of a trypto...something that I did for my advanced painting class. You know, where 3 painting make up a whole painting. Yeah, that's what it is. Seriously, I had no idea what I was doing here.The teacher forbade me to paint my usual way and was about to force me to paint with spatulas. So I came up it a way to mix the paint on the boards white painting at the same time. The effects are kinda cool.

So where is the 3rd painting?

I never did it. Or finished one.

 The 3rd painting, or really the 2nd one was suppose to be a painting depicting living. But, when I attempted to paint something, I really couldn't finish it. Or at least rally come up with a solid image that show living.The other direction I tried taking was showing "Life after death." But again, I couldn't come up with an image. Seriously, what would I really know what that looked like.

Acrylic on mason board.


More of my paintings at:
http://www.myspace.com/kione01

INTRODUCTION

Variabilis:
is an accumulation of random art work.
With today's accessibility to various blog sites, I decided that it would be a great medium to display and share all the random designs, illustrations, paintings and ( a layman's attempt at...) photography, that I have done over the years.

Most of the work that will be displayed here are works of pleasure.
Some are class projects, but most are personal projects that stem from my love of various cultures (especially mine), reading, film, people, other's art works and stories told.
There is little if any, work that I do that makes a statement of any kind, nor attempts to enlighten anyone.
Rather, most of my work are ideas; representational images...displayed on paper, canvas or created digitally.
Or what some my call, "designs".

I will not be posting any work that I have done professionally on this particular blog.
If you are interested in seeing work that I have done professional, please make your way to: http://www.myspace.com/kione01

I hope you enjoy the imagery and thank you for visiting VARIABLIS; random creativity.