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.

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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.

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The Message

Dentistry Batch 1985, Manila Central University, Manila, Philippines



The 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

Tomato

Tomatoes

oil 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 Parrot
oil painting

canvas size: 12 x 24
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.

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Floral Painting: A Bouquet of Roses

A Bouquet of Roses

oil 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.

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

The Ranch

The Ranch

Oil 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

Still Life: Fruits

Pineapples and orange

Acrylic 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.

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Still Life - Fruits

Perspective

One-point Perspective

Three-point Perspective

Two-point Perspective

Two-point Perspective

One-point perspective

Perspective
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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Floral Painting

Wild Daisies

acrylic 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.

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