Portrait
Watercolor painting
size: 8 x 10 in.
Artist: Rogelio Babanto
Amy
Mimi
Philip
Mimi
RogelioTuesday, December 14, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
A Window
A Window
oil painting
canvas size: 18 x 24
artist: Rogelio Babanto
This painting reminded me of my past when I was a kid-1st grade. I was at the window in the house where I was raised up in the Philippines looking at my mother on the street walking away from the house, and I cried so loud so I could be heard her because I wanted to go with her, but instead, she ignored me without looking back on her shoulder to see me. What I did, I punched the lower right corner of the window breaking up the window pane. She looked and went back to the house, and called me,but I was scared,so I ran to the bedroom and hid under the bed; Consequently, she went into the bedroom and found me and she gave me some bread. She asked me, if I wanted to come along with her to the store to buy food for dinner. Without hesitation, I said yes to my mother.---rb
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Rocky Mountain and Violet Orchid
Rocky Mountain oil painting
impressionistic
impressionistic
canvas size: 14 x 18
artist: Rogelio Babanto
The Rocky Mountain was done in oil painting by impre-
ssionistic technique. It was my first time to use impressionistic technique. It was a good technique because it leaves a brush mark on the paint to provide texture on the surface: stone, grass, soil, and wood..This impressionistic technique needs a lot of paint on the canvas; so that, the effect of the brushstrokes from the brush during the application of paint becomes vivid. The effect of the brush marks once the paint dries up, you can feel the texture made by the brush by touching the surface with barehands.
Violet Orchid
oil painting
canvas size: 11 x 14
artist: Rogelio babanto
This is a gorgeous flowers which have petals like the wings of the butterflies. They smell so good.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves
oil painting
canvas size: 16 x 20
artist: Rogelio Babanto
Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Sunday, August 8, 2010
A Dying Black Cat
A Dying Black Cat
A true to life story
Author: Rogelio Babanto, Texas
I would like to dedicate this story to my first grandson Jayson who was with me since birth and love to play with cats. Besides, he's happy to watch cat walking on top of the fence.
I would like also to dedicate this story to my wife, Mimi, son, Philip, and daughter, Amy for their support and encouragement.
Thanks to Mr biloo_5 from Canada, owner of EPR- English Practice Room for people around the world, Paltalk.com for giving me an opportunity to be one of his admins. for the purpose of teaching American English to the people around the world who are in need to learn English as their second language for free (no payment) since 2006 up to the present.
Date of the incident: November 14, 2008
Place of the incident: Friendswood, Texas
About Cat: name: unknown, address: unknown, color: black, gender: unknown, eyes color: unknown, size: medium.
The story of a dying black cat happened outside of the house at the garage door on the path leading to the main entrance of the house.
It was a cloudy morning, but there's no sign of possible rain. The kids were already gone for school, so there's no more school bus coming in to our village, and some residents went to their work usually before seven o'clock. The place was very quiet, and you could hear clearly if somebody dropped a nail a few feet away from where I was standing just outside of my house in the pathway.
When the school bus were gone, I was still in the front lawn looking at the plants to check if it needed trimming. Thus, I went to the garage to get shears and a pair of scissors because I wanted to trim the shrub located at the right side corner of the garage door facing the street.
While trimming and shaping the shrub to a ball, I felt a soft hair brushing back and forth on my right ankle. I stopped my work for a while, and looked down to see what it was. I was stunned when I saw it. It was a black hairy cat who came from nowhere as if the cat needed something from me. After several brushings, the cat walked away from the place where I was standing towards the evergreen tree along the porch. Beside the plant, the black cat lay down under the shade. I was looking at the cat as if there's something wrong with the black cat.
Because of my curiosity, I didn't hesitate myself to go near to the cat where it was lying..I sat down quietly and stared to the cat's belly if it was breathing or not. I didn't see a rising and lowering of the belly, so I was pretty sure that the cat was dead. My tears suddenly ran down on my cheeks, and I stayed beside
the cat for several minutes for a miracle that gave a cat a chance to breathe again. Unfortunately, there's no second chance for the cat to breathe again and I felt guilty for its death.
I felt sorry for the cat because I didn't give anything before its last breath. Perhaps the cat needed something from me when the cat brushed its fur on my right ankle, but unable to speak because the cat was an animal. I didn't see any bleeding from the cat, and maybe the cause of the death was starvation. The cat wasn't able to go back to the house where it came from for a meal, so the cat starved. The cat wasn't meowing for help before its death. If I gave a water to the cat, could the cat survive for hunger?
While I was sitting on the blocks beside the dead cat, I heard footsteps from our neighbor's driveway. Suddenly, I stood up and looked at the woman who had just come out from her garage. I greeted her with a warm smile as if there's nothing wrong in our front lawn. She was wearing a dark dress, slippers, her skin was tanned and surely, had a short hair. The woman stared at me in a friendly way without anywords that came out from her mouth. Without hesitation to speak, I started to greet her with a "helllo! and a warm smile. I told her the whole story about the dead black cat in our lawn.
I was at the front of the main door of the house standing on the pathway near the plant where the black cat was laying down beside it.
We didn't speak for several seconds just by staring blankly to our eyes. I had a hard time to start talking just to break the ice of silence.But I couldn't hold any longer without confiding the black cat to the woman which was standing infront of me. Without any doubt about it, I told her that there was a dead black cat laying on the lava rocks beside the evergreen plant.
I asked her, if she had a black cat, and she said," no." Perhaps the next door neighbor from her house was the owner of the dead black cat. She turned around without saying any words that she was going to the next door neighbor and told them that their was a dead black cat lying on the front garden of the house beside an evergreen. A man with big pot belly came out from the garage bringing plastic trash bag. From his house, he went straight towards my front lawn and picked up the dead black cat and put in the plastic bag, and then walked back home to his house with the dead black cat in the plastic black trash bag.
When all of them were gone to their houses, I looked above and the sky was so dark and a heavy rain was coming soon with several thunderstotms and lightnings.
I prayed and asked God an apology for I did not let the cat drink with water before the black cat died. My tears shed and wished that the black cat soul may rest in peace. Amen.
The End
A true to life story
Author: Rogelio Babanto, Texas
I would like to dedicate this story to my first grandson Jayson who was with me since birth and love to play with cats. Besides, he's happy to watch cat walking on top of the fence.
I would like also to dedicate this story to my wife, Mimi, son, Philip, and daughter, Amy for their support and encouragement.
Thanks to Mr biloo_5 from Canada, owner of EPR- English Practice Room for people around the world, Paltalk.com for giving me an opportunity to be one of his admins. for the purpose of teaching American English to the people around the world who are in need to learn English as their second language for free (no payment) since 2006 up to the present.
Date of the incident: November 14, 2008
Place of the incident: Friendswood, Texas
About Cat: name: unknown, address: unknown, color: black, gender: unknown, eyes color: unknown, size: medium.
The story of a dying black cat happened outside of the house at the garage door on the path leading to the main entrance of the house.
It was a cloudy morning, but there's no sign of possible rain. The kids were already gone for school, so there's no more school bus coming in to our village, and some residents went to their work usually before seven o'clock. The place was very quiet, and you could hear clearly if somebody dropped a nail a few feet away from where I was standing just outside of my house in the pathway.
When the school bus were gone, I was still in the front lawn looking at the plants to check if it needed trimming. Thus, I went to the garage to get shears and a pair of scissors because I wanted to trim the shrub located at the right side corner of the garage door facing the street.
While trimming and shaping the shrub to a ball, I felt a soft hair brushing back and forth on my right ankle. I stopped my work for a while, and looked down to see what it was. I was stunned when I saw it. It was a black hairy cat who came from nowhere as if the cat needed something from me. After several brushings, the cat walked away from the place where I was standing towards the evergreen tree along the porch. Beside the plant, the black cat lay down under the shade. I was looking at the cat as if there's something wrong with the black cat.
Because of my curiosity, I didn't hesitate myself to go near to the cat where it was lying..I sat down quietly and stared to the cat's belly if it was breathing or not. I didn't see a rising and lowering of the belly, so I was pretty sure that the cat was dead. My tears suddenly ran down on my cheeks, and I stayed beside
the cat for several minutes for a miracle that gave a cat a chance to breathe again. Unfortunately, there's no second chance for the cat to breathe again and I felt guilty for its death.
I felt sorry for the cat because I didn't give anything before its last breath. Perhaps the cat needed something from me when the cat brushed its fur on my right ankle, but unable to speak because the cat was an animal. I didn't see any bleeding from the cat, and maybe the cause of the death was starvation. The cat wasn't able to go back to the house where it came from for a meal, so the cat starved. The cat wasn't meowing for help before its death. If I gave a water to the cat, could the cat survive for hunger?
While I was sitting on the blocks beside the dead cat, I heard footsteps from our neighbor's driveway. Suddenly, I stood up and looked at the woman who had just come out from her garage. I greeted her with a warm smile as if there's nothing wrong in our front lawn. She was wearing a dark dress, slippers, her skin was tanned and surely, had a short hair. The woman stared at me in a friendly way without anywords that came out from her mouth. Without hesitation to speak, I started to greet her with a "helllo! and a warm smile. I told her the whole story about the dead black cat in our lawn.
I was at the front of the main door of the house standing on the pathway near the plant where the black cat was laying down beside it.
We didn't speak for several seconds just by staring blankly to our eyes. I had a hard time to start talking just to break the ice of silence.But I couldn't hold any longer without confiding the black cat to the woman which was standing infront of me. Without any doubt about it, I told her that there was a dead black cat laying on the lava rocks beside the evergreen plant.
I asked her, if she had a black cat, and she said," no." Perhaps the next door neighbor from her house was the owner of the dead black cat. She turned around without saying any words that she was going to the next door neighbor and told them that their was a dead black cat lying on the front garden of the house beside an evergreen. A man with big pot belly came out from the garage bringing plastic trash bag. From his house, he went straight towards my front lawn and picked up the dead black cat and put in the plastic bag, and then walked back home to his house with the dead black cat in the plastic black trash bag.
When all of them were gone to their houses, I looked above and the sky was so dark and a heavy rain was coming soon with several thunderstotms and lightnings.
I prayed and asked God an apology for I did not let the cat drink with water before the black cat died. My tears shed and wished that the black cat soul may rest in peace. Amen.
The End
Friday, August 6, 2010
Snowing in Friendswood, Texas 2009
Snowing in Friendswood, Texas 2009
featuring: grandson Jayson, 3 year-old boy
Steps
Stepsacrylic painting
canvas size: 8 x 10
artist: Rogelio Babanto
This was taken in Daytona Beach in Orlando, Florida last 2000. I was interested with this subject because of balance by the two white sides giving the steps as the center of interest. The most interesting about this subject compared to all artists who painted a subject the same as this "Steps" was done at the side rather than painted in the middle with equal balance to look like monotone.--rb
Pears with Red Berries
Pears with Red Berries
oil painting
canvas size: 8 x 10
artist: Rogelio Babanto
I painted this so well with oil paint, and arranged the fruit in a natural way with some overlapping. The light came from the right side giving the fruit a well formed shaped with strong values. The center of interest of this painting is the cut pear showing the white flesh of th e succulent fruit.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The Boy, Nipa Vendor
Nipa Vendorcanvas size: 24 x 36
oil painting
This was taken in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines 1995. Aurora was located at the top of the mountain, and it was the place where my wife was born. The Nipa Hut or Vendor was extraordinary, and I was attracted to it. I painted the bamboo post in detailed. At the next picture, you can see the detailed partition of the bamboo. The color of the nipa was brown like a cocoa with milk.
The Boy at the Nipa vendoroil painting
canvas size: 24 x 36
artist: Rogelio Babanto
The other reason why I did this painting in oil was because of the vendor. It reminds me of my elementary when we had a United Nation day parade just around the Pagadian Central Elementary School. My uniform for the parade was the same as his clothes-- red pants and white shirt with a red scarf-- representing from my country, Philippines.
Nipa Hut
Nipa or Nipah in the Philippines
Nipa Vendoroil painting
canvas size: 24 x 36
artist: Rogelio Babanto
This was taken in Aurora, Zambo. Sur, Philippines 1995. It was in the hometown of my wife, Mimi, and it's about 30 minutes drive from my hometown, Pagadian city. This Nipa vendor was located next to the house of our godparent in the wedding, Dr. L. Auman. I made this painting because I was attracted to the extraordinary trend in the construction of the store for Nipa.
rb
Nipa hut
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The nipa hut also known as bahay kubo, is an indigenous house used in the Philippines. The native house is constructed out of bamboo tied together, with a thatched roof using nipa/anahaw leaves.
Nipa huts were the native houses of the indigenous people of the Philippines before the Spaniards arrived. They are still used today, especially in rural areas. Different architectural designs are present among the different ethno-linguistic groups in the country, although all of them conform to being stilt houses, similar to those found in neighboring countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia,and other countries of Southeast Asia.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Farm House
Farm Houseoil painting
canvas size: 22 x 28
artist: Rogelio Babanto
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Mixed Fruits in oil
Mixed FruitsOil Painting
canvas size: 30 x 40
artist: Rogelio Babanto
- not for sale -
Babanto's collection
This is my #1 oil painting, Mixed Fruits, and it was hung in my living room as my main attraction on the wall even though the space was tight. The size of this painting is 30 x 40 canvas with a traditional style of frame and made of wood. T...he biggest of all my paintings, but my wife didn't say anything or any admiration for this painting inorder to encourage me; therefore, for her, it's just a waste of time and money. It took me several weeks to finish this painting, because I wanted it realistic. I have lots of stories behind this painting, money, time, stress, and the annoyance. In the end, it is priceless to have this painting as one of my collections even though it is not for sale. I'm so glad that you like it. rb
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Brown Jar
Brown Jar
oil painting
canvas size:
artist: Rogelio Babanto
I bought this brown jar from a store nearby our house because it had a memorable story from my father who died last 2000 in the Philippines and it was on the 4th of July which was the Independence Day of USA.
His story was about laying stones like pebbles or other kinds of stones as long they were smooth on the base of the inside of the jar. Poured a tap water into the inside of the jar and after several hours, the water would be as cold as the water in the refrigerator.
rb
Mimi's Sunflowers
Mimi's Sunflowers
oil painting
canvas size: 24 x 28
artist: Rogelio Babanto
It is my favorite floral painting in oil. It was a plant of my wife, Mimi, in the back yard just behind the house, and I was attracted to the petals, so without hesitation I painted the sunflowers realistically in detailed. The outcome was perfect and looked natural to me because I variedly arranged them with depth. The positions of the flowers were in different positions so it won't looked monotonous. This is the only painting I have for sunflower and it was hung on the wall of my living room. Thank you! Painting is a good hobby. Have fun dabbing your paint on the canvas.
rb
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Message
Dentistry Batch 1985, Manila Central University, Manila, PhilippinesThe Message
Dear Dentistry classmates and Dentistry batch 1985, Hello! everyone. How are you all doing nowadays? I hope you're all doing fine. I posted a message on my profile's wall to let you all informed that for the past two months I was so grateful with extreme joy because of your unforgetfulness, kindness, empathy to my ailment, and messages that can truly uplifted my spirit.
The messages that I received from around the world were full of different stories during students lives and after graduation. It was way back 1985 which I got married and joined my wife in Texas where my second home was had a green, green grass of home. After I arrived in Texas, I wasn't able to communicate with my classmates and batch 1985.
Time have gone by so quickly if you're busy. After twenty five years have elapsed, I opened a facebook account. I filled in the necessary information needed in my profile so that I could had a real identity of myself and not a bogus. I stayed up all night long when I filled in my facebook account, and ...at the same time, speculating the names of my classmates and batch 1985.
I was brainstorming myself on how to intercommunicate with the people that I had been with for almost five years in Manila Central University, Manila, Philippines.They were like my real family because I spent with them more hours than my family; however,the mutual relationship was with our family because we brought up by our parents after we came out from the womb of our mother to a new world, and we cried out loud as our first language.
The names that I could recall were mostly from section one which I started my first year as a Dentistry proper. Indeed, it was really difficult to adapt to a new environment because of the language barrier even though I had two Pilipino (Tagalog) subjects before the first school year was started. That's the main... reason why sometimes I had a tongue-tied--unable to speak..
Even though I was not the talkative and had a sense of humor in the class, but I strove so hard to break the ice of silence inside the classroom. It was a great pleasure for me of being accepted in the class as a human being not because of my Visayan-Ilocano languages which my mother tongue is Bisaya.
Do you believe that people of the same feather flock together? Yes, I do..and I felt like alone by myself in the desert,--emptiness--and the sun as if coming down on me. Crushing my entire body and soul. In the end, thank you very much my classmates, friends, batch'85 and that is reality.
When I had the names of my classmates, but mostly, first names, my searched wasn't useful. Others had the same name with the other people from other countries like: Ferdinand Pacinos, Aida Peralta, Rodel Garcia,Adel Ramirez, and others...I gave up searching for several weeks. Suddenly, I did not realize... that the first person who sent me a message which I forgot the full name.
The name of the person I remembered was....Rosauro---my first friend in MCU; His full name was at the back of my head, but I couldn't say it...Here's his quoted message to me, "June 24 at 11:16pm si rosauro noel cruz III ito, remember me, pag ka med tech pa rin ang trabaho mo dyan, d ka na nag dentist Rogelio.....
Rogelio Babanto June 26 at 6:26am "Hello! Noel. How are you? Of course, I remembered you because you were the first person who became a friend with me during the first day of Anatomy class. You even offered me a cigarette before in the class, but I said no because it's almost time for Anatomy anyway."
by: Rogelio Babanto
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tomato
Tomatoesoil painting
canvas size: 8 x 10
artist: Rogelio Babanto
Those "affected" people who pronounce it "toe-mah-toe" are historically correct. The plant was first called tomate in Spain when introduced there from the New World, and even in the early 16th century it was pronounced in three syllables. The o incidentally has no place at all in "tomato," apparently being there because mid-18th-century Englishmen erroneously believed that it should have this common Spanish ending.
Blue Parrot
Blue Parrotoil painting
canvas size: 12 x 24
artist: Rogelio Babanto
artist: Rogelio Babanto
Parrots [their name believed to derive somehow from the French proper name Perrot, a diminutive of Pierre] reproduce human sounds with great accuracy and have been known to have "vocabularies" of over 100 words, but they of course speak by imitation, without understanding.
Parrots have been called Pollys since the early 17th century, when Ben Jonson first recorded the word Myna birds [from the Hindi maina] mimic human speech more precisely than parrots but have smaller vocabularies.
rb
Monday, July 26, 2010
Floral Painting: A Bouquet of Roses
A Bouquet of Rosesoil painting
canvas size: 24 x 28
artist: Rogelio Babanto
My wife is my inspiration to this painting, "A Bouquet of Roses" because Rose in Tagalog [Philippine language] is Rosa [singular]/Rosas [plural]. Rosa symbolizes my love to my wife which Rosa has our names: Ro is Rogelio
and Sa is Salome.
and Sa is Salome.
I arranged this "A Bouquet of Roses" very well with the applied principles of art, so it would looked like a two-dimensional effect on canvas, and with a sense of depth by facing some of the flowers towards the back, left, right or top, it made the subject real on canvas.
On the foreground, I added some petals so the subject looked natural, and it moved the bottom of the vase forward while the flowers backward. The subject it's not tilting forward ,but in an erect position with a good balance. rb
Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Ranch
The RanchOil painting
canvas size: 18 x 24
artist: Rogelio Babanto
"Keep your love of nature for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
"I started loving the nature when I painted my first landscape with cows entitled "The Ranch" in oil painting. I admired the beauty of nature because of God's love. He created it for us even though it is not perfect for one picture with the principles of art; it guided us to place where the location of the invisible part is."--Rogelio Babanto
Monday, July 19, 2010
Still Life: Fruits
Pineapples and orangeAcrylic painting
canvas size: 8 x 10
artist: Rogelio Babanto
This is the finished acrylic painting of my chosen subject which are the pineapples and orange.
This is the other picture which I didn't choose as my subject for my painting because the direction of the peeled orange is towards the left of the picture. It really exits the viewer's eyes to the left in a second without moving his eyes around the picture.
This is the subject--fruits-- for my still-life painting. I preferred this arrangement of the objects because of balance which the center of interest--orange--facing towards the viewer. It invites the viewer's eyes to the middle of the painting and moves around the painting before it goes to the edge for exit.
rb
Perspective
One-point Perspective
Three-point Perspective
Two-point Perspective
One-point perspective
Two-point Perspective
Two-point Perspective
One-point perspectivePerspective
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are drawn:
Smaller as their distance from the observer increases
Foreshortened: the size of an object's dimensions along the line of sight are
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are drawn:
Smaller as their distance from the observer increases
Foreshortened: the size of an object's dimensions along the line of sight are
relatively shorter than dimensions across the line of sight.
A cube in two-point perspective.
Rays of light travel from the object, through the picture plane, and to the viewer's eye. This is the basis for graphical perspective.
Linear perspective works by representing the light that passes from a scene through an imaginary rectangle (the painting), to the viewer's eye. It is similar to a viewer looking through a window and painting what is seen directly onto the windowpane. If viewed from the same spot as the windowpane was painted, the painted image would be identical to what was seen through the unpainted window. Each painted object in the scene is a flat, scaled down version of the object on the other side of the window.[1] Because each portion of the painted object lies on the straight line from the viewer's eye to the equivalent portion of the real object it represents, the viewer cannot perceive (sans depth perception) any difference between the painted scene on the windowpane and the view of the real scene.
All perspective drawings assume the viewer is a certain distance away from the drawing. Objects are scaled relative to that viewer. Additionally, an object is often not scaled evenly: a circle often appears as an ellipse and a square can appear as a trapezoid. This distortion is referred to as foreshortening.
Perspective drawings typically have an -often implied- horizon line. This line, directly opposite the viewer's eye, represents objects infinitely far away. They have shrunk, in the distance, to the infinitesimal thickness of a line. It is analogous to (and named after) the Earth's horizon.
Any perspective representation of a scene that includes parallel lines has one or more vanishing points in a perspective drawing.
A one-point perspective drawing means that the drawing has a single vanishing point, usually (though not necessarily) directly opposite the viewer's eye and usually (though not necessarily) on the horizon line. All lines parallel with the viewer's line of sight recede to the horizon towards this vanishing point. This is the standard "receding railroad tracks" phenomenon.
A two-point drawing would have lines parallel to two different angles. Any number of vanishing points are possible in a drawing, one for each set of parallel lines that are at an angle relative to the plane of the drawing.
Perspectives consisting of many parallel lines are observed most often when drawing architecture (architecture frequently uses lines parallel to the x, y, and z axes].
Because it is rare to have a scene consisting solely of lines parallel to the three Cartesian axes (x, y, and z), it is rare to see perspectives in practice with only one, two, or three vanishing points; even a simple house frequently has a peaked roof which results in a minimum of six sets of parallel lines, in turn corresponding to up to six vanishing points.
In contrast, natural scenes often do not have any sets of parallel lines. Such a perspective would thus have no vanishing points.
Types of perspective
Of the many types of perspective drawings, the most common categorizations of artificial perspective are one-, two- and three-point. The names of these categories refer to the number of vanishing points in the perspective drawing. From the strict mathematical point of view the apparent size of objects at a distance would not be correctly described by straight lines coming from a vanishing point, instead involving the tangent of the angle of observation. However the difference in practice is so small that the viewer does not sense anything unnatural in such a representation.
One-point perspective
One vanishing point is typically used for roads, railway tracks, hallways, or buildings viewed so that the front is directly facing the viewer. Any objects that are made up of lines either directly parallel with the viewer's line of sight or directly perpendicular (the railroad slats) can be represented with one-point perspective.
One-point perspective exists when the painting plate (also known as the picture plane) is parallel to two axes of a rectilinear (or Cartesian) scene — a scene which is composed entirely of linear elements that intersect only at right angles. If one axis is parallel with the picture plane, then all elements are either parallel to the painting plate (either horizontally or vertically) or perpendicular to it. All elements that are parallel to the painting plate are drawn as parallel lines. All elements that are perpendicular to the painting plate converge at a single point (a vanishing point) on the horizon.
Two-Point Perspective.
Walls in 2-pt perspective.Walls converge towards 2 vanishing points.All vertical beams are parallel.Model by "The Great One" from 3D Warehouse.Rendered in SketchUp.
Two-point perspective can be used to draw the same objects as one-point perspective, rotated: looking at the corner of a house, or looking at two forked roads shrink into the distance, for example. One point represents one set of parallel lines, the other point represents the other. Looking at a house from the corner, one wall would recede towards one vanishing point, the other wall would recede towards the opposite vanishing point.
Two-point perspective exists when the painting plate is parallel to a Cartesian scene in one axis (usually the z-axis) but not to the other two axes. If the scene being viewed consists solely of a cylinder sitting on a horizontal plane, no difference exists in the image of the cylinder between a one-point and two-point perspective.
Two-point perspective has one set of lines parallel to the picture plane and two sets oblique to it.Parallel lines oblique to the picture plane converge to a vanishing point,which means that this set-up will require two vanishing points.
Three-Point Perspective
Three-point perspective rendered from computer model by "Noel" from Google 3D Warehouse.Rendered using IRender nXt.
Three-point perspective is usually used for buildings seen from above (or below). In addition to the two vanishing points from before, one for each wall, there is now one for how those walls recede into the ground. This third vanishing point will be below the ground. Looking up at a tall building is another common example of the third vanishing point. This time the third vanishing point is high in space.
Three-point perspective exists when the perspective is a view of a Cartesian scene where the picture plane is not parallel to any of the scene's three axes. Each of the three vanishing points corresponds with one of the three axes of the scene.
One-point, two-point, and three-point perspectives appear to embody different forms of calculated perspective.
Zero-point perspective
Due to the fact that vanishing points exist only when parallel lines are present in the scene, a perspective without any vanishing points ("zero-point" perspective) occurs if the viewer is observing a nonlinear scene. The most common example of a nonlinear scene is a natural scene (e.g., a mountain range) which frequently does not contain any parallel lines.
A perspective without vanishing points can still create a sense of "depth," as is clearly apparent in a photograph of a mountain range (more distant mountains have smaller scale features).
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A cube in two-point perspective.
Rays of light travel from the object, through the picture plane, and to the viewer's eye. This is the basis for graphical perspective.
Linear perspective works by representing the light that passes from a scene through an imaginary rectangle (the painting), to the viewer's eye. It is similar to a viewer looking through a window and painting what is seen directly onto the windowpane. If viewed from the same spot as the windowpane was painted, the painted image would be identical to what was seen through the unpainted window. Each painted object in the scene is a flat, scaled down version of the object on the other side of the window.[1] Because each portion of the painted object lies on the straight line from the viewer's eye to the equivalent portion of the real object it represents, the viewer cannot perceive (sans depth perception) any difference between the painted scene on the windowpane and the view of the real scene.
All perspective drawings assume the viewer is a certain distance away from the drawing. Objects are scaled relative to that viewer. Additionally, an object is often not scaled evenly: a circle often appears as an ellipse and a square can appear as a trapezoid. This distortion is referred to as foreshortening.
Perspective drawings typically have an -often implied- horizon line. This line, directly opposite the viewer's eye, represents objects infinitely far away. They have shrunk, in the distance, to the infinitesimal thickness of a line. It is analogous to (and named after) the Earth's horizon.
Any perspective representation of a scene that includes parallel lines has one or more vanishing points in a perspective drawing.
A one-point perspective drawing means that the drawing has a single vanishing point, usually (though not necessarily) directly opposite the viewer's eye and usually (though not necessarily) on the horizon line. All lines parallel with the viewer's line of sight recede to the horizon towards this vanishing point. This is the standard "receding railroad tracks" phenomenon.
A two-point drawing would have lines parallel to two different angles. Any number of vanishing points are possible in a drawing, one for each set of parallel lines that are at an angle relative to the plane of the drawing.
Perspectives consisting of many parallel lines are observed most often when drawing architecture (architecture frequently uses lines parallel to the x, y, and z axes].
Because it is rare to have a scene consisting solely of lines parallel to the three Cartesian axes (x, y, and z), it is rare to see perspectives in practice with only one, two, or three vanishing points; even a simple house frequently has a peaked roof which results in a minimum of six sets of parallel lines, in turn corresponding to up to six vanishing points.
In contrast, natural scenes often do not have any sets of parallel lines. Such a perspective would thus have no vanishing points.
Types of perspective
Of the many types of perspective drawings, the most common categorizations of artificial perspective are one-, two- and three-point. The names of these categories refer to the number of vanishing points in the perspective drawing. From the strict mathematical point of view the apparent size of objects at a distance would not be correctly described by straight lines coming from a vanishing point, instead involving the tangent of the angle of observation. However the difference in practice is so small that the viewer does not sense anything unnatural in such a representation.
One-point perspective
One vanishing point is typically used for roads, railway tracks, hallways, or buildings viewed so that the front is directly facing the viewer. Any objects that are made up of lines either directly parallel with the viewer's line of sight or directly perpendicular (the railroad slats) can be represented with one-point perspective.
One-point perspective exists when the painting plate (also known as the picture plane) is parallel to two axes of a rectilinear (or Cartesian) scene — a scene which is composed entirely of linear elements that intersect only at right angles. If one axis is parallel with the picture plane, then all elements are either parallel to the painting plate (either horizontally or vertically) or perpendicular to it. All elements that are parallel to the painting plate are drawn as parallel lines. All elements that are perpendicular to the painting plate converge at a single point (a vanishing point) on the horizon.
Two-Point Perspective.
Walls in 2-pt perspective.Walls converge towards 2 vanishing points.All vertical beams are parallel.Model by "The Great One" from 3D Warehouse.Rendered in SketchUp.
Two-point perspective can be used to draw the same objects as one-point perspective, rotated: looking at the corner of a house, or looking at two forked roads shrink into the distance, for example. One point represents one set of parallel lines, the other point represents the other. Looking at a house from the corner, one wall would recede towards one vanishing point, the other wall would recede towards the opposite vanishing point.
Two-point perspective exists when the painting plate is parallel to a Cartesian scene in one axis (usually the z-axis) but not to the other two axes. If the scene being viewed consists solely of a cylinder sitting on a horizontal plane, no difference exists in the image of the cylinder between a one-point and two-point perspective.
Two-point perspective has one set of lines parallel to the picture plane and two sets oblique to it.Parallel lines oblique to the picture plane converge to a vanishing point,which means that this set-up will require two vanishing points.
Three-Point Perspective
Three-point perspective rendered from computer model by "Noel" from Google 3D Warehouse.Rendered using IRender nXt.
Three-point perspective is usually used for buildings seen from above (or below). In addition to the two vanishing points from before, one for each wall, there is now one for how those walls recede into the ground. This third vanishing point will be below the ground. Looking up at a tall building is another common example of the third vanishing point. This time the third vanishing point is high in space.
Three-point perspective exists when the perspective is a view of a Cartesian scene where the picture plane is not parallel to any of the scene's three axes. Each of the three vanishing points corresponds with one of the three axes of the scene.
One-point, two-point, and three-point perspectives appear to embody different forms of calculated perspective.
Zero-point perspective
Due to the fact that vanishing points exist only when parallel lines are present in the scene, a perspective without any vanishing points ("zero-point" perspective) occurs if the viewer is observing a nonlinear scene. The most common example of a nonlinear scene is a natural scene (e.g., a mountain range) which frequently does not contain any parallel lines.
A perspective without vanishing points can still create a sense of "depth," as is clearly apparent in a photograph of a mountain range (more distant mountains have smaller scale features).
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Floral Painting
Wild Daisiesacrylic painting
canvas size: 16 x 20
artist: Rogelio Babanto
2010
I painted this Wild Daisies in our backyard last spring time, 2010. I bought this flowering shrub--Wild Daisies--last year 2009 as a Mother's day present for my wife Mimi. Fortunately, this Spring time when I went to the backyard to look around, and checked the plants if they're still alive from the snow last winter. We had a 6 inches thick of snow last winter, and I thought all the plants were affected by the snow especially the flowering plant, Wild Daisies.
I added some pebbles, big stones, twigs, and a squirrel on the foreground so that the viewers wouldn't stay out of the painting early, but go around the painting.
The fence rhythm with the petals of the flower while the stones rhythm with the buttons of the flowers giving a rhythmical and harmonious art. The rhythm and harmony of the painting hold the viewers eye within the painting.
The rays of the morning sunlight give also a rhythm, harmony in the painting, as well as direction towards the center of the art. The viewers of this painting would linger longer than without rhythm and harmony in the painting.
rb
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
How to draw the figure?
How to draw the Figure? BEFORE you make a line you must have a clear conception of what you want to draw. In your mind it is necessary to have an idea of what the figure to be drawn is doing. Study the model from different angles. Sense the nature and condition of the action, or inaction. This conception is the real beginning of your drawing.
How to draw the figure? # 1
1. Give due consideration to the placing of your drawing on the paper, for balance and arrangement. Make two marks to indicate the length of the drawing.
2. Block in with straight lines the outline of the head. Turn it carefully on the neck, marking its center by drawing a line from the Adam's apple to the pit between the collar bones.
3. From the pit of the neck make one line giving the direction of the shoulders, keeping in mind the marking of its center, which should be the pit between the collar bones.
4. Indicate the general direction of the body by outlining to the hip and thigh, at its outermost point, the side that carries the weight.
How to draw the figure? #2
5. Follow this' by outlining the opposite inactive side of the body, comparing the width with the head.
6. Then, crossing again to the action side of the figure, drop a line to the foot. You now have determined the balance, or equilibrium of the figure.
7. Carry the line of the inert side to the knee, over and upward to the middle of the figure.
8. On the outer side, drop a line to the 0ther foot.
How to draw the figure? # 3
9. Starting again with the head, and thinking of it as a cube
with front, sides, top, back and base, draw it on a level
with the eye, foreshortened or in perspective.
10. Outline the neck and from the pit of the neck draw a line
down the center of the chest.
11. At a right angle to this line, where stomach and chest
join, draw another line and then draw lines to indicate
the rib cage as a block, twisted, tilted or straight, accord
ing to its position.
12. Now draw the thigh and the leg which support the·
greatest part of the weight of the body, making the thigh
round, the knee square, the calf of the leg triangular and
the ankle square. Then draw the arms.
rb
How to Draw the Figure?
How to draw the Figure? BEFORE you make a line you must have a clear conception of what you want to draw. In your mind it is necessary to have an idea of what the figure to be drawn is doing. Study the model from different angles. Sense the nature and condition of the action, or inaction. This conception is the real beginning of your drawing.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Pencil Sketches and Drawings
Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.
Cat
Tiger
Horse
Horse
Bull
Pigs
Dog and Horse
Cat
Cat
Tiger
Horse
Horse
Bull
Pigs
Dog and Horse
Cat
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