Saturday Groupie
The Saturday Group of artists, which presently counts 30+ painters and sculptors, has turned out 8 Philippine National Artist award recipients, and is fertile breeding ground for those who are bound to be honored similarly in the future.
Renown painter Mauro Malang Santos, aka Malang, is patriarch and mentor to the group, which boasts of, among others, Lydia Velasco, Cris Cruz and my sister Sheila Tiangco, who is a fine watercolorist.
We had a chance to host a painting session for them yesterday noon at my mother-in-law's home in San Pablo, city of the seven lakes, where they were all afforded, from their own choice perches, a good view of the Sampalok Lake, the biggest and most accessible one of the seven. It was a beautiful day, sun-kissed and doubly blessed with the hum of gentle blowing wind, invigorating, cooperating, and surely firing the muses to work all day in their midst.
I have always envied and admired my sister's talent, and the next best thing for me, is to play groupie to this gifted and amiable bunch who are not exactly without their own temperaments but were only too grateful for a nice, lovingly prepared lunch. So grateful were they, in fact, that at the end of the day, mom found herself happily gifted with most of the work the artists churned out for the day, these pictures painted from different angles and scenes of her very own beloved lake, right below her home.
It is quite a challenge to think of a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than this, and what better way to prove it than doing a repeat, which everybody agreed upon, and is scheduled to be in summer, sometime in April. The beautiful flame trees, these tall, very old and intimidating women by the gate, would be in full bloom in their fiercely reddish orange glory, I imagine, and the bougainvillead awning and fence, lushly profuse, like white, fuschia and lilac wall carpeting by then. What beautiful pictures to paint out of that day ... I can hardly wait.
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Renown painter Mauro Malang Santos, aka Malang, is patriarch and mentor to the group, which boasts of, among others, Lydia Velasco, Cris Cruz and my sister Sheila Tiangco, who is a fine watercolorist.
We had a chance to host a painting session for them yesterday noon at my mother-in-law's home in San Pablo, city of the seven lakes, where they were all afforded, from their own choice perches, a good view of the Sampalok Lake, the biggest and most accessible one of the seven. It was a beautiful day, sun-kissed and doubly blessed with the hum of gentle blowing wind, invigorating, cooperating, and surely firing the muses to work all day in their midst.
I have always envied and admired my sister's talent, and the next best thing for me, is to play groupie to this gifted and amiable bunch who are not exactly without their own temperaments but were only too grateful for a nice, lovingly prepared lunch. So grateful were they, in fact, that at the end of the day, mom found herself happily gifted with most of the work the artists churned out for the day, these pictures painted from different angles and scenes of her very own beloved lake, right below her home.
It is quite a challenge to think of a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than this, and what better way to prove it than doing a repeat, which everybody agreed upon, and is scheduled to be in summer, sometime in April. The beautiful flame trees, these tall, very old and intimidating women by the gate, would be in full bloom in their fiercely reddish orange glory, I imagine, and the bougainvillead awning and fence, lushly profuse, like white, fuschia and lilac wall carpeting by then. What beautiful pictures to paint out of that day ... I can hardly wait.
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